Thread: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine'

hi
the script will not run on my site, i keep getting http internal server error and the page changes to http://www.solholistic.com/lang/es%3...cho%20$_SERVER[
i installed the link on www.solholistic.com/reiki1.html to see if it would work first.curl is enabled and safe mode is off.
the link i used is <a href="http://www.solholistic.com/lang/es<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] ?>"><img src="graphics/es.gif" alt="Spanish"></a>
i include the error log files below, any help appreciated.
[Thu Dec 18 10:34:35 2008] [alert] [client 84.64.3.234] /domains/s/o/solholistic.com/public_html/lang/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
[Thu Dec 18 10:34:25 2008] [alert] [client 84.64.3.234] /domains/s/o/solholistic.com/public_html/lang/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
[Thu Dec 18 10:34:41 2008] [alert] [client 84.64.3.234] /domains/s/o/solholistic.com/public_html/lang/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

The visible presence of '">' on http://www.solholistic.com/reiki1.html tells me that the PHP code is not being executed by your web server.

There are many ways to configure your web server to execute PHP code stored in .html files. The one I use is to add this line to my site's main .htaccess file:

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

You'll know this is working when the '">' disappears.

Originally Posted by smokeyjoe

/domains/s/o/solholistic.com/public_html/lang/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

This is a different problem. This most likely means that your web server doesn't have mod_rewrite enabled.

Are you using Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.x?

the hosting company have confirmed that the mod_rewrite is not enabled on my account.
thanks for the quick response