htaccess/friendly URLs issues

using the .htaccess (and friendly urls) i get this error

The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I’m using the default htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

I see that this part is the same as previous versions’ htaccess files
any idea why this is not working?

the index.php exists and loads the main page, but when I try to access any page with a .html ending I get this error. Additionally, this will display anytime a page is not found.

Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.8

Is your installation of MODx in the root of your web server, or in a subdirectory (as in public_html/modx or htdocs/modx)

it is in a subdirectory for now
I changed the htaccess to

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ modx/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

thanks for pointing that out

I don’t mean to be picky, but isn’t that what the htaccess line:
RewriteBase /
is for?

change that to
RewriteBase /modx
and you will be able to reconfigure more obviously when you move the installation.

right...
thanks for pointing that out