Links not working

I've installed it and read through the last 4 pages here to see if there's something stupid I've done. I have changed the details in .htaccess to represent my domain etc. The links I click direct to SEO friendly URLs but they don't work once I enable it, disabling it causes them to work once again.

To explain better:

1. Turned it on
2. Clicked a link and got a error (page not found)
3. Pasted in the original URL, error (page not found)
4. Turned it off
5. Worked fine (with original URL).

Any ideas?

Options +FollowSymLinks
# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On
# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
RewriteBase /forums/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.remuneror.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.remuneror.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

Hello,

Please check with your host that mod_rewrite module is enabled on the server.

It's in my 'loaded modules' (php info), I'm assuming that means it is enabled, I've also checked inside my httpd.conf to make sure it's in there.

Please try to add this to the top of .htaccess:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

Still not working, I must have something wrong with my Apache config, I'll try playing around with that later.

Try to put this in corresponding <VirtualHost> section in apache config:

Code:

AllowOverride All
Options +FollowSymLinks

That stops Apache starting for some reason, I'll do a search on google to see if there is an obvious reason tomorrow.

You can check the error log to find out why it doesn't start.