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I had this problem on a client’s server. Apache was not reading the .htaccess files thus mor_rewrite was not working. After i did a few searches i found out that the Directory settings in the apache configuration hat AllowOverride None as directive instead of AllowOverride All.
I made the change, restardet apache and all went as [...]

If you’re looking for this, you know why you need it. But just in case you’ve stumbled upon this and are curious, URL rewriting is useful for several reasons:
1. Accessibility: most people will rather remember a path that looks like http://www.example.com/products/shoes/12/ than http://www.example.com/index.php?category=products&type=shoes&productid=12
2. Security: granted, this is security through obscurity, but at the very least [...]