Hello,
I am doing an initial installation of the WEC starter package. It seems that the .htaccess in my site's root is there, but is not "seen" by the servercheck script. Perhaps this is a webhost configuration issue, but I'm not sure what that configuration issue would be. What do I do if .htaccess is not seen? What does this mean? Below are the results from the servercheck, and thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give.

-= PHP Scripting Test =-
OS Linux Passed
Version 5.2.5 Passed
Server API cgi Passed
Max Execution Time 30 Passed
Memory Limit 64M Passed
Max Upload Filesize 100M Passed
Required Functions success Passed
max_traversal success Passed

-= Email Test =-
email sending via mail() info Warning

-= MySQL Database Test =-
Status Running Passed
Client Version 4.1.22 Passed
SQL Safe Mode Passed
Persistent connection Success Passed
Server Version 4.1.22-standard Passed
Host Info Localhost via UNIX socket Passed

-= File Permissions Test =-
777 Permissions allowed No Passed
Minimum write permissions 0755 Passed
Symlinks Success Passed

-= Apache Web Server Test =-
Version 1.3.39 Passed
mod_rewrite unable to determine this setting due to the server configuration Warning
mod_security not found Passed
Allow Override Success Passed
Rewrite URLs Failed Failed
Rewriting URLs failed.

-= Graphics Test =-
GD library found Passed
GraphicsMagick library failed Failed
GraphicsMagick not installed
ImageMagick library found Passed

-= TYPO3 Test =-
Base Tag Passed
.htaccess file not found Failed
The .htaccess file could not be found in your TYPO3 root directory. Please make sure
you copied it correctly from the WEC Starter Package to your web host.
RealURL failed Warning
Rewritten page not found.
TYPO3 index.php Success Passed
fileadmin not writable Warning
Could not write to the fileadmin directory. Please check the directory permissions.
uploads not writable Warning
Could not write to the uploads directory. Please check the directory permissions.
typo3temp not writable Warning
Could not write to the typo3temp directory. Please check the directory permissions.
typo3conf not writable Warning
Could not write to the typo3conf directory. Please check the directory permissions.

Norm,
I can think of two issues offhand that would cause this.

#1 - Is the server checker script in the same folder as the .htaccess file? I think it probably is, but if they're in different folder, the server checker will not see it.

#2 - What are the file permissions for the .htaccess file? The server checker is running under the same username as your webserver, so if the server checker can't see the file that probably means the web server can't see it either. I see some errors about writing files to various TYPO3 folders also, so it looks like file permissions may not be configured correctly across all of TYPO3. I'd suggest starting with 777 for everything and working your way down from there depending on what the server checker tells you.

Hope that helps get you started. Let us know if you have other questions or need some more tips.

Thanks,
Jeff