Friendly URLs Refuse to Work [SOLVED]

I’ve had a search but can’t find anything that helps.

I’ve enabled friendly URLs, sorted the .htaccess file, mod_rewrite is enabled and the site is definitely looking at the .htaccess file as when I put something random at the top it throws an error. And yet the friendly URLs refuse to work! I’ve checked the error logs and there’s nothing there. Is there anything else that could be stopping it from working? Yes, modx is installed at root.

.htaccess file:
# For full documentation and other suggested options, please see
# http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Friendly+URL+Solutions
# including for unexpected logouts in multi-server/cloud environments
# and especially for the first three commented out rules

#php_flag register_globals Off
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
#php_value date.timezone Europe/Moscow

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Fix Apache internal dummy connections from breaking [(site_url)] cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Rewrite domain.com -> www.domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# Exclude /assets and /manager directories from rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^(manager|assets) - [L]

# For Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

# Reduce server overhead by enabling output compression if supported.
#php_flag zlib.output_compression On
#php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

I’ve had it before that the directive needs to be commented out.
Probably won’t solve it but worth a try.

Nope, didn’t work. Thank you anyway!

I’d transfer a copy to a local webserver (e.g. xampp)
and test it out. If that works fine, talk to your host!

It’s still not working even locally. Now I really am confused. I’ve followed all the instructions to the letter.

What happens? Do you get 404 Page Not Found errors? 500 server errors?

It goes back to the index page. I’ve got it set to do that on 404 error though, so I’m thinking the page doesn’t exist. It’s definitely looking at the htaccess because when I put junk in it I get a 500 error.

Are you sure that you turned on Friendly URLs in the Configuration?

Yep, I’m sure. Just to confuse things even more, I just set it to ’no’, before changing it back to yes again to see if that kicked some life into it. I refreshed the page, expecting it to not work at all...and it worked. Friendly URLs are now working with Use FriendlyURLs set to no.

Edit: I checked in the database, and friendly urls has a value of 0. Even more confusing.

That sounds very unlikely. Can you give us a URL?