Using Mod-Rewrite in XAMPP

I followed some tutorials on how to use Mod_Rewrite

but it doesn't work.

I have a php index page that accepts a page parameter like this:

call: index?page=name1, name2, name3 etc.

<?php

if (isset($_GET['page']))
{
    switch($_GET['page'])
    {
       case 'front':
       include "front.php";
       break;

       default:
       break;
       }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

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I want to run mod-rewrite so that urls appear as site.com/name1

. Is this possible with the code I am using above?

Below is what I've tried in apache config files to no avail.

Apache / CONF / http.conf

line 122: LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
line 188: DocumentRoot "G:/xampp/htdocs"
line 198: #default
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

line 215:  <Directory "G:/xampp/htdocs">
line 228:  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
line 235:  AllowOverride All

# cgi
line 355:
<Directory "G:/xampp/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory> 

      

        
        
        
      

    

G: \ XAMPP \ Apache \ conf \ extra \ http.v-hosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot G:/xampp/htdocs/
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin admin@localhost

<Directory "G:/xampp/htdocs/localhost/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot G:/xampp/htdocs/site2/
ServerName site2.localhost
ServerAdmin admin@site2.localhost

<Directory "G:/xampp/htdocs/site2.localhost/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

      

        
        
        
      

    

.htaccess

IndexIgnore *

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]