I dont recall installing rewrite module on apache 2.2 in 1.3 i had to manually install. Am assuming you are running Apache 2.2, the module should be already loaded by default, confirm this on you httpd.conf, look for this line,

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Enable rewrite on the the directory you are serving using "RewriteEngine On"  either directly on httpd.conf or via .htaccess file.



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