i asked the server people if i was allowed to use indexhibit on thi server and this is what they said.
Hello,
All of our shared hosting servers meet or exceed these requirements. We use FreeBSD, a flavor of UNIX, instead of Linux, but that should be analagous enough for your needs.
I'm not 100% sure mod_rewrite is enabled by default, but it is available for use. It would not be a horrible idea to put the code into your .htaccess file to enable it before your rewrite rules either way. Some information about using mod_rewrite with a .htaccess file can be found here:
http://webmastertips.us/tutorials/mod_rewrite.htm
what the hell is he saying?