mod_rewrite test?

I’ve been asked to assist someone with an issue they’re having with their installation of WordPress. I was gone for almost 2 weeks, and had an email from them in my inbox saying that mod_rewrite was turned on (I remember telling them it wasn’t on and they needed to ask their host to turn it on), but for the life of me, I cannot remember how I came to that conclusion.

The response they got from their host was that it *was* turned on (their host is GoDaddy) – that it’s on by default. I do remember looking at their PHP info and not seeing it in the list, but I don’t think that’s what made me decide it wasn’t on.

Would anyone have any quick and easy methods to test and see if mod-rewrite *is* turned on? I don’t have access to the php.ini file to see.

As a background – and just in case anyone might have alternate ideas on the issue I’m trying to solve – the woman is using PodPress on her site. The podcasting files are not running properly, and I’ve discovered it has to do with the stats stuff that comes with PodPress. It wants to use her permalink structure – but the permalinks don’t work because (through my attempts at trying to figure out why permalinks are failing, my conclusion was that…) mod_rewrite isn’t on, which her host denies.

What’s even funnier is that all of her PodPress images are failing, even though the paths are correct and the images are there – this is in the admin area *and* the public side.

Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for *any* of this, I’d appreciate it!