I have the drupal .htaccess file in the docroot and I've tested that it works by putting something bogus in it...it will come back with a good old error message.
When i do the "clean URL test" at ?q=admin/config/search/clean-urls it will just refresh the page, no option to turn on clean URLs, nor an error page.
I assumed that something in the .htaccess must be failing, but when I manually change my URL from http://dev.mydomain.com/?q=node/1 to http://dev.mydomain.com/node/1 it loads the page properly, so that makes me think that the .htaccess is doing its work partially anyway. But when I however create a new basic page, it will still display the ?q=, when I make it into a menu link, it still has the ?q= query stuff.
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