I had that problem when I built my Joomla site. I had to go into the GUI 
and enable AuthConfig, FileInfo, and Indexes overrides in the Allow 
Override section of the server Web Settings tab. It's a server-wide 
setting, so I can't answer the question of whether or not it's a good 
idea in your situation...

ak

Chuck Tetlow wrote:
> Hi to all BlueX gurus,
> 
> I've got a web developer driving me crazy.  And I was wondering if someone 
> here might have heard of this problem.
> 
> He's trying to implement some of the Search Engine Optimization abilities in 
> Apache.  It calls for a .htaccess file in the root directory of the website.  
> The .htaccess file is supposed to implement some RewriteEngine configurations 
> (even though there are already some in the vhosts configuration file.
> 
> But each time he puts a .htaccess file in the root directory of the Joomla 
> websites - it breaks the site which responds with a 500 error.  He claims 
> that no matter what he puts in the .htaccess file - it breaks the site.
> 
> Has anyone run into this problem before?  Or does anyone have experience with 
> SEO and the RewriteEngine configurations??
> 
> Chuck
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