Topic awaiting preservation: htaccess issues - nothings working!

Hi guys I'm started to work on an application using teh zend framework and I've included an htaccess file just as how the tutorials have said to do so. But instead of working as I expect - the public folder of teh application within which I put the htaccess file is unreachable from my browser and if I try to access it I get an ugly "Internal Server Error"

The contents of the htaccess file are just this and its supposed to reroute all requests to one index file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* index.php

I checked my Apache error logs and I see this issue being reported:

quote:

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[alert] [client 127.0.0.1] C:/wamp/www/conventional/document_root/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration, referer: http://localhost/

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Whats the problem here - am I missing something somewhere? I have WAMP up and running - however I cant proceed without getting this to work.

(Edited by paritycheck on 05-21-2008 08:56)

(Edited by paritycheck on 05-21-2008 08:56)

Uuuuuuh.. nevermind that just remembered I had forgotten to enable rewite_mod in http.conf file of Apache ...guess I jumped too soon...