First off, thanks in advance for anyone helping me, I'm a first time user of SS and thought it was straightforward until I ran into this problem.

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Friendly URLs are not working. This is most likely because mod_rewrite isn't configuredcorrectly on your site. Please check the following things in your Apache configuration; you may need to get your web host or server administrator to do this for you:
mod_rewrite is enabled
AllowOverride All is set for your directory
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I've looked into countless of others who had the same issue, but nothing seems to do the trick.

My .htaccess file looks like this:

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### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
<Files *.ss>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /beta

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif$)|(\.jpg$)|(\.png$)|(\.css$)|(\.js$)|(\.php$)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
</IfModule>
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###
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I'm using WAMP on 32-bit Win7, PHP 5.

Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks OwenW for your informative reply.

Unfortunately there was already no hash for that line in the apache config file.

What I am unsure about is (and bear with me, this is my first time using apache/php), should the apache files/folders be present in the remote host? They are presently only in the local host.

Perhaps this is the issue? Or something else?

If anyone has any ideas of what I could be looking out for, it could be something fundamental I'm overlooking here, or not.

Thanks,
Jonathan

Good tip BigChris but to no avail -- the rewrite_module is already checked off in my Apache Modules.

I'm suspecting perhaps the issue is that I did not install the SilverStripe to my root folder, but rather into a folder called 'beta'. Can anyone let me know if this is problematic?

I wouldn't mind restarting the process and putting it in the root, but I don't want the site to display until I've finalized a few things... is there a way to avoid the SilverStripe site being shown and having my under construction page there until I am ready?

Thanks to anyone has answers to these two questions, or has suggestions in solving the original problem (understanding why I'm getting a mod_rewrite / allowoverride error despite both being enabled).

Best,
Jonathan

Thanks, though I was aware of most of that. What is mostly needed is to set up my site so that the silverstripe index page runs out of www.mysite.com/subdirectory as opposed to www.mysite.com. Any way to do this?