Problems with .htaccess support.

[RodG]

First sentence in my previous post answered the question that you said I didnt answer.

Hmmm, well no you didn't, and still haven't. It may have been implied as part of the "other directories" but I'm not willing to make that assumption. Historically I've wasted many hours going around in circles due to this kind of thing. Seriously, the .htaccess files in "other" directories are unimportant to the problem. The only important one is the one in the /includes/ folder and I really didnt think it too much to ask that you verify/confirm that this specific one exists.

You didnt ask for the permissions originally, but yes they are all 644

No, I didnt ask previously which is why I asked this time. Could you please confirm that you actually checked that permissions are 644 and that this wasnt from memory or possibly you just said it was 644 because that is what I said it should be?

When I say they are not hidden, I mean they are visable in my directory structure. Not using anything other than pure apache.

Im not sure what you mean about "pure apache", and "hidden" in this context does not mean they can't be seen in the directories. All files in all directories can be seen, even the hidden ones.

Anyway, lets try to move forward eh?
So, the file /includes/.htaccess exists, and it has permissions of 644 .... Next step is to set the permissions to 666 (temporarily) and edit the file by adding the words "hello world" right at the beginning of the file. save it.
Now point your webbrowser to yourstore.com/includes/

One of three things will happen. When you tell me the results that you are getting I will either be able to give a diagnosis, or will I be able to provide you with the next diagnostic step(s).

Cheers
RodG