.htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here

Question

I uploaded the .htaccess to the server and received an Error 500 (Internal Server Error).

And in the error log I had the following error:

Answer 1

Let's say your DOCUMENT_ROOT is /home/foo/web then have this config in your httpd.conf file:

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

This should take care of RewriteEngine is not allowed error you're getting.