Mac / Mod Rewrite

[smittyatthebeach]

All the forum posts I've been able to find show the fix for mod rewrite on windows, but what on a mac? I get the 500 internal server error when trying to do the mod rewrite.

Thanks,

~Smitty

[Wiedmann]

I get the 500 internal server error when trying to do the mod rewrite.

What can you read in Apaches' error_log?

[smittyatthebeach]

[Fri Oct 17 15:56:29 2008] [alert] [client ::1] /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/wordpress/.htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here

This is what I'm getting......