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Last modified: January 17, 2008 - 13:38
Actually there's another issue caused by the default Apache configuration where the AllowOverride value is set to None
Open your httpd.conf file (I use the command pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf)
look for:
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
AllowOverride None and set allowoverride to All
Save, restart apache and you're set!