W3 Total Cache error

Hi Guys,

Thanks for a great plugin! I’m using the latest version and was on wordpress 3.6, now 3.7 and I’ve always had the 2 below errors since installing W3 Total Cache. I’ve gone through loads of articles on Google with no success, I’ve tried setting .htaccess to 777 which hasn’t helped.

Can someone point me in the right direction, tell me what I’m doing wrong? Let me know if you need any more information, many thanks.

Errors:

W3 Total Cache error:It appears Minify URL rewriting is not working. Please verify that the server configuration allows .htaccess
Unfortunately minification will not function without custom rewrite rules. Please ask your server administrator for assistance. Also refer to the install page for the rules for your server.
Technical info
.htaccess file contains rules to rewrite url http://xxx/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/w3tc_rewrite_test. If handled by plugin, it returns “OK” message.
The plugin made a request to http://xxx/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/w3tc_rewrite_test but received:
connect() timed out!
instead of “OK” response.

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W3 Total Cache error: It appears Page Cache URL rewriting is not working. Please verify that the server configuration allows .htaccess
Unfortunately disk enhanced page caching will not function without custom rewrite rules. Please ask your server administrator for assistance. Also refer to the install page for the rules for your server.
Technical info
.htaccess file contains rules to rewrite url http://xxx/w3tc_rewrite_test into http://wehousesit.net/?w3tc_rewrite_test which, if handled by plugin, return “OK” message.
The plugin made a request to http://xxx/w3tc_rewrite_test but received:
couldn’t connect to host
instead of “OK” response.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/