I am trying to get .htaccess to work under Apache, but the server doesn't seem to honor it.

In httpd.conf I have:

AllowOverride All

I have restarted the server with 'service httpd restart'. I have also done a 'service httpd reload'.

The docs suggest testing the configuration with a garbage .htaccess file. If the server succesfully reads the garbage .htaccess file, this should result in an error when retrieving a page from the directory. But I get no error, suggesting that the server is not parsing the file.

What might be wrong?

Thanks.