.htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here

Question

I uploaded the .htaccess to the server and received an Error 500 (Internal Server Error).

And in the error log I had the following error:

Answer 1

minimum configuration for your .htaccess to work:

AllowOverride FileInfo Options

allowing all configuration will work as well:

AllowOverride All

Answer 2

Also, just make sure you are editing the correct config file. I had created a file under /etc/apache2/users/USERNAME.conf but was editing /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.

Removing the USERNAME.conf file worked.