It looks like GoDaddy might have tweaked their .htaccess / mod_rewrite support. As I wrote in an earlier post, the way GoDaddy was supporting .htaccess was causing some confusion, in that even if you uploaded a correct .htaccess file, it could take some time to register. This might have changed.
I haven't done much research or testing, but now when I make changes, they seem to activate immediately. I don't know if this is just me, or whether they've fixed the problem, but it makes setup a lot easier.
Anyway, I've updated the original article to an extent, but have kept the possibly-obselete content in place for reference.
I would be interested to hear what others have to say on this subject. I seem to get quite a lot of referrals from Google from searches for things like "mod_rewrite godaddy htaccess", so it's still an issue.
strangely some of my sites can work with mod_rewrite and some could not. and the most strange part they are all in the same hosting account and I am checking all but still it is not working for www .mujuu .com and at the same time for www .sifavi .com its working.
another awkward situation I just changed a simple rule for mujuu.com to redirect to www .mujuu .com and it worked after I uploaded htaccess but other rules does not working and I am stuck :(
have you tried htaccess for subdomains ?
I was having all sorts of problems with mod_rewrite and godaddy hosting. It turned out multiviews were rewriting my URLs before mod_rewrite could which messed it all up. After I disabled multiviews all my old mod_rewrite rules worked great. To turn multiviews off just add this to your htaccess file:
Options -MultiViews
I wrote a little more about it on my bog:
http://www.btjones.com/2007/12/09/godaddy-mod_rewrite-problem-fix/
thanks you for this information
have been suffering with htaccess
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