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I've been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial's Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.

Regarding the htaccess issues, try using this modified version that was used on our install:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /magento/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/skin/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/js/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/var/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

The default one worked fine, but we've added a few things. You'll want to change the rewrite base directory to the directory where you installed Magento. If it's not in a sub-directory, then just leave one forward slash there.

In the default htaccess file, the first line in the above example is not included. While this is not a requirement on our servers, as most hosts have this enabled by default, if it is not enabled and you try to do any rewriting, you'll get an internal server error. That line specifically might help.

Rewrite Explanation

The first four rewrite conditions are there in case a missing image, JavaScript, CSS stylesheet, or temporary file is requested.

The next three rewrite conditions check to see if a file, directory, or symbolic link exists.

If a request passes all of the above conditions, it is sent to the index.php file in the magento directory (because that is what we set as our rewrite base).

You can check out our rewrite article if you're interested in learning more about htaccess and rewrites.

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