I've searched the forums and haven't been able to find a solution to this problem, though I've seen it come up in several threads.
My drupal site is hosted on Dreamhost servers, and I cannot get the clean urls feature to work. When I enable clean urls, I get a message saying that mod rewrite must not be turned on. I suspect the problem is with my .htaccess file, but I'm not sure what part I'm missing. Here's my file:
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#
# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php
# Override PHP settings. More exist in sites/default/settings.php, but
# the following cannot be changed at runtime. The first IfModule is
# for Apache 1.3, the second for Apache 2.
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.