Problem With RewriteEngine

i have put a cms in my root directory which has "RewriteEngine On" in its .htaccess file. the problem is that when i try to run it Apache gives internal server error. in apache's log the following has been written

"Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration"

what i have to do - i didn't know much about apache so brief in detail .

I am using Apache 2 on Windows XP with php 4.4.0 installed

 

I'm not sure about apache 2 on windows, but on apache on linux, I have these lines in the httpd.conf:

LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/mod_rewrite.so

AddModule mod_rewrite.c

Do you have similar lines in your conf?

 

no i didn't find any line like that. i try to add them manually but apache crashs. the problem still exist

 

only the following line was needed in httpd.config file

 LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/mod_rewrite.so 

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