RewriteRule doesn't work in .htaccess files on this server

I started getting this error too. I had to comment out the lines in protection_check_new_rewrite and it started working again.

WHen I run the tests/bla/1.php I get 2-second_file, but it still doesnt work and tells me that RewriteRule doesn't work in .htaccess files on this server, so something is messed up somewhere.

This may help... when I debug it, I get this:

You don't have permission to access /premium/plugins/protect/new_rewrite/tests/mod_rewrite/1.php on this server.

So the query you are using, is returning that. Guessing somewhere there is a .htaccess that says do not let direct queries of anything in the plugins/protect folders?

Ok, I think I have figgured it out. With the Virtual domains on the server, requests are not coming from 127.0.0.1 but from the IP of the server. Hence it was blocking it. This may help others.