Apache: Virtual Host and .htacess for URL Rewriting not working

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Published on 2011-05-15T18:44:55Z Indexed on 2011/11/21 2:09 UTC
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I have configured a virtual host in my local machine and every thing is working fine. Now I want to use SEO friendly urls. To achieve this I have used the .htaccess file.

My virtual host configuration is:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/ypp"
    ServerName ypp.com
    ServerAlias www.ypp.com
    ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"
    ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>

and my .htaccess file has:

AllowOverride All
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /ypp/ 
RewriteRule ^/browse$ /browse.php 
RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1 
RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1&subcat=$2

The above .htaccess setting is not working. After that I modified my virtual host setting and it is working. The new virtual host setting is:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/browse$ /browse.php
    RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1
    RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1&subcat=$2
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        DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/ypp"
    ServerName ypp.com
    ServerAlias www.ypp.com
    ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"
    ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" combined
    <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/ypp">
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Please let me know where I am going wrong in the .htacess file for url rewriting. I do not want to use the settings in virtual host, since for every change I have restart apache.

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