Ah hah! That was it - thank you! This was probably somewhere in the docs (I hope?) and I missed it while sleep deprived.
<EOL> Tib
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, [utf-8] Bèr Kessels wrote:
Op zaterdag 18 juni 2005 13:51, schreef Tib: Incidentally, the only error that ever showed up in my apache logs regarding drupal was this:
[Fri Jun 17 21:15:32 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.22] Directory index forbidden by rule: /home/tib/public_html/drupal/includes/
Make sure you have allowOverride All set. otherwise Drupal cannot set its variables with .htaccess. Drupal will work without .htaccess, so optionally you can remove it completely.
Regards, Bèr