Thanks all. It appears that I had multiple files and Apache was getting confused (or maybe I was). I went and checked again for the Allow Override in my httpd.conf file (knowing that I had changed it) only to find that the one that Apache was using wasn’t the one I modified. Edited the file, restarted Apache and now it all works.
Localhost in really a bitch!!!
Now off to deploy a new website – wish me luck
Thanks again
Thanks esmi but that has already been covered. As I mentioned above Mod_Rewrite is enabled (the entry is in the httpd.conf file and yes, I have double checked that the syntax is correct