I am trying out silverstripe, and downloaded the file and extracted to my local server. I do not want it in the server root, as I have other projects there, but rather in its own subdirectory. When I do that, I cannot even see the silverstripe directory in the browser, and if I try to go to the silverstripe subdirectory I get a 500 error.

If I rename the .htaccess file to something else, the directory shows up and I can get to the framework installation page. So it is obviously a setting in the .htaccess file that is the problem. What do I need to change in the .htaccess file to allow silverstripe to work in this setup? I'm running apache under linux.

Thanks. mod_rewrite was loaded, but I had to add the following:

<Directory "/srv/http/silverstripe">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

to my httpd.conf file

Although now I can't upload any files, and silverstripe doesn't recognize the png files I manually put in the Uploads directory. Found a thread on the upload issue that involves a patch (over my head what they are talking about), looks like I'll be trying another CMS. Silverstripe looked promising. ..sigh..