Hi This is my first time here and wonder if anyone can help me. Im dreaming of running Drupal 6.17 on localhost in a: openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Linux 2.6.34-12-desktop x86_64 installed MySQL 5.1.46-2.18-x86_64 /etc/ Installed PHP (all packages) 5.3.2-1.31-x86_64 /etc/php5 Installed Apache 2.2.15-3.7-x86_64 /etc/apache2 Drupal 6.17: /srv/www/htdocs/drupal617 .htaccess: /srv/www/htdocs/.htaccess IN HTTPD.CONF # forbid access to the entire filesystem by default <Directory /> Options None AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all </Directory> # use .htaccess files for overriding, AccessFileName .htaccess # and never show them <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> IN .HTACCESS file in /srv/www/htdocs/drupal617: # Various rewrite rules. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on # If your site can be accessed both with and without the 'www.' prefix, you # can use one of the following settings to redirect users to your preferred # URL, either WITH or WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix. Choose ONLY one option: # # To redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix, # (http://example.com/... will be redirected to http://www.example.com/...) # adapt and uncomment the following: # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] # # To redirect all users to access the site WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix, # (http://www.example.com/... will be redirected to http://example.com/...) # uncomment and adapt the following: # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301] # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a # VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly. # For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and # modify the following line: RewriteBase /drupal617/ # # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/, # uncomment the following line: #RewriteBase / # Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] </IfModule> The drupal > administrer > site configuration > Clean URL I get the message: Your system configuration does not currently support this feature. PLEASE HELP ME before I am going nuts. I have been working for days with this Clean URL problem.