I have tried a blank .htaccess file, as well as one that has the permalinks page suggested text. I have tried to put it in same directory as the index.php as well as one below it and one above it. My site is on an apache server and it has mod-rewrite on. There must be something that I’m overlooking, but I can’t find it. The short of it is that no matter where, or what is in the .htaccess file when I upload it and try to access my site I get an 500 error code.