[Owncloud] Installation at UDmedia fails with .htaccess

[saschaview at gmail.com]

Hello

I am running ownCloud 2012.0.3 Enterprise hosted by the German company 
UDmedia (apache). The installation is only possible if I completely 
remove the .htaccess file in the owncloud root directory after setup, 
else I constantly get an 500 error. How does the .htaccess removal harm 
the overall installation? Is there a better workaround? Which other 
aspects should I take care of?

Thanks!

Regards
*S*

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Sascha Vieweg, saschaview at gmail.com