Forums optimisation

Worked yesterday night on forums optimisation suggested by this nice source : http://www.able2know.com/forums/about15132.html

Looks like session id disappeared from the urls, which is a nice thing. Still, I couldn't make work the mod_rewrite part, I am too new into it and still don't know where this mystic .htaccess file should be placed. I tried to place it under phpBB2 folder or under ROOT folder but nothing took any effect.

I sent an email to eapps support and they told me to play with "Custom Settings" tab in the Control Panel. I don't know, AFAIR this tab modifies the httpd.conf file in Apache. Is it the same as modifying .htaccess? Can I use the same syntax as for .htaccess? I should either try it myself or send another email to eapps support.