Problems with htaccess

Oh my god… I got a lot of problems with my .htaccess file this morning and it looks like I still have some. The home page is OK but all RewriteRule rules are not working… quite weird.

I also had problems with the banning referrals technique I’m using from Simon Jessey.

Update: OK… I uploaded a modified .htaccess file: it was not working. I opened it with WordPress’ template file editing, I saved it: it’s working. Sorry for all the problems it might has caused.

Anyone ever had any problems with their .htaccess file that caused a 500 error?

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1. On April 2nd, 2005 at 1:47 pm, Datrio said :Datrio's gravatar

Yeah, the dreaded HTTP 500 error. Basicly, I can lower this error down to two things:

1. Server misconfiguration
2. Parse error in .htaccess

It was probably the second one in your case, and WordPress automatically corrected it. Same thing happened with me - I had to edit my file with WordPress.

Also, I just remembered - if you uploaded the file in BINARY mode, you could’ve gotten the same error. Maybe that’s why.

2. On April 2nd, 2005 at 7:41 pm, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

I think the reason is the last point you mentionned, the binary mode transfer.

3. On April 12th, 2005 at 2:43 pm, kanuso said :kanuso's gravatar

Considering the given information, it was a Windows/UNIX line-break problem.
Uploading a file in binary is not a bad thing (in fact it is the GOOD thing), but line-break problems arise when switching Operative Systems.
ASCII mode will transparently translate the line-breaks, but also probably trash international/UTF8 encodings.

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