Nobody has some insights about this?

Its been fine for me on several installs on 2 hosts

Did you get some problems with Blocks or Packages? Or others? And what about updates?

Thanks.

Who do you host with Mnkras? This was (in my case anyway) a host specific issue. Still not clear on WHY though.

If you are a beginner like me in mod_rewrite (pretty url) then better don't use it because if you run into trouble like i did and nobody is able to help you, You'll probablly get more harmn than good. I refer here to Google or any other search index.

If you are an expert or you always have somebody to call in case of problems then do it, it's very nice to have it working.

I think it's one of those things that either works or doesn't work. I've never experienced any problems with it, aside from it not working at all, which was (usually) easily rectified.

If you're running your site on a shared hosting environment, you'll need the ability to upload or edit the .htaccess file. It's not a big deal, since c5 gives you the exact text to paste into it.

It's possible that your provider won't have mod_rewrite enabled by default. Hopefully you'll be able to do that yourself or get one of their friendly staff to do it for you. But once it's working, you shouldn't have any issues.

iv hosted on Servage and 1and1, i had to add a line or 2 in 1and1 but it was fine the only conflict i had with blocks was superfish but thats fixed now :)

Thanks to all of you for your feedback.

I have had it work no problems on two dedicated vp servers and for some reasons MediaTemples grid service gave me a headache not sure if I ever did get it right. (Moved it so don't remember)

well, at leat its related to your server settings (apache stuff).

you need mod_rewrite enabled, what your phpinfo can tell you.

at all it definitely makes sense to enable it for seo reasons, so just do it :)