On WordPress’ page about using permalinks, it gives steps to enable “pretty” permalinks. I have non-shell hosting account at 1and1.com, and I had use only .htacceess to make it work. Even though the WordPress’ instruction says you have to set FileInfo directives allowed, but I found that it actually causes Internal Server 500 error.
I had the following piece of code in .htaccess, and now it’s working fine.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress 
#1 by Antonio on October 1st, 2009
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Thanks a lot for this code. I was wondering what was wrong with my wordpress installation and you saved my life :-)
It definitely worked for me!
Cheers from Valencia.
#2 by Marc Shaw on October 15th, 2009
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- Marc Shaw
#3 by retgreasp on November 25th, 2009
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Cool post, didn’t thought reading it would be so interesting when I looked at the url.
#4 by Mike C on March 1st, 2010
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Thanks a lot–big help!
#5 by Ryan K on November 7th, 2010
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Oh my God, thank you SO MUCH. I’ve spent the last 3 days searching the internet for a solution to this problem. You rock. :D
#6 by bubori on December 14th, 2010
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#7 by Leota Portie on August 24th, 2011
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#8 by Miquel Geck on August 24th, 2011
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I submitted you to my directory, hope you dont mind.. Thanks again
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