.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

In httpd version 2.4 (2.4.3 and 2.4.4), take a look at /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf There is one entry for: ....

Change: "AllowOverride Options" to "AllowOverride All"

in wordpress.conf also in addition to changing httpd.conf. Restart the http server before the changes will take effect.