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Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:56 pm - How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2095

How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

ok, so today, i wanted to start making my urls more search engine friendly (SEO), i wrote my .httaccess file and made the changes on my files to make sure the urls are as i put them in the .htacess file. when i tried to open my urls, i kept getting this Apache 500 error:

Code:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster @example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.0 Server at thisdomain.com Port 80

I remember a whie back ago i got this same error on another apache server. so what i had to do was look at the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file make sure i uncomment the mod_rewrite, so i logged into the linux shell and opened the httpd.conf file:

Code:

nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

When i open it, found that the mod_rewrite was not commented out, so wha else could be the problem, as you can see,
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so the is not commented out in the httpd.conf file:

Code:

LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so

so what else could be the problem i wondered...
Then i checked for AlloweOverride :

Code:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

I changed AllowOverride from None to All, rebooted the server and i still kept getting the 500 error. at this point i was breaking my head..
so i checked my .htaccess file again to make sure i didn't make a typo or something, so this is how my .htacces files looks like:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^p-([0-9]*).html viewpage.php?id=$1

So i removed the Options +FollowSymLinks then uploaded it my site, and voala! i didn't get the error anymore. so this is how my .htaccess file looks like now:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^p-([0-9]*).html viewpage.php?id=$1

Thanks to the support team at www.webune.com for helping me with this problem, i had read a post regarding this on this fourm but could not get a resolution on the problems.

Thanks Webune for your support on my dedicated server. - that's what i call service.

author: web hosting

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Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:02 am - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2186

Tanuja

thanks a lot for this post. really helped.

Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:07 am - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2187

Fozail

I was having the same error, you saved me all that time I would have put into debugging this...thanks very much!

Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:20 am - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2188

lipu

how do you fix htaccess rewriterule internal error?

Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:54 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2503

dandi

please show me how to fix Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:22 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2692

donaldo

hello, i am from brazil, i have dwzone site search engine http 500 internal server error

Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:07 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2749

nando

i need help with this:

additionally, a 500 internal server error error was encountered while trying to use an errordocument to handle the request.

Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:15 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2853

shair

please hel me sir with phpbb internal server error 500 the server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. apache server port 80

Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:51 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#2924

sharmir

i was doing a search engine friendly urls then i got a 500 internal server error error was encountered while trying to use an errordocument to handle the request

Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:43 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#3197

apamesher

you can also list the modules to be sure you have it with this command:

ls /etc/httpd/modules

you should get something like this:

libphp5.so              mod_cgi.so           mod_mime_magic.so
mod_actions.so          mod_dav_fs.so        mod_mime.so
mod_alias.so            mod_dav.so           mod_negotiation.so
mod_asis.so             mod_dbd.so           mod_perl.so
mod_auth_basic.so       mod_deflate.so       mod_proxy_ajp.so
mod_auth_digest.so      mod_dir.so           mod_proxy_balancer.so
mod_authn_alias.so      mod_disk_cache.so    mod_proxy_connect.so
mod_authn_anon.so       mod_dumpio.so        mod_proxy_ftp.so
mod_authn_dbd.so        mod_env.so           mod_proxy_http.so
mod_authn_dbm.so        mod_expires.so       mod_proxy.so
mod_authn_default.so    mod_ext_filter.so    mod_python.so
mod_authn_file.so       mod_file_cache.so    mod_rewrite.so
mod_authnz_ldap.so      mod_filter.so        mod_setenvif.so
mod_authz_dbm.so        mod_headers.so       mod_speling.so
mod_authz_default.so    mod_ident.so         mod_ssl.so
mod_authz_groupfile.so  mod_imagemap.so      mod_status.so
mod_authz_host.so       mod_include.so       mod_suexec.so
mod_authz_owner.so      mod_info.so          mod_unique_id.so
mod_authz_user.so       mod_ldap.so          mod_userdir.so
mod_autoindex.so        mod_log_config.so    mod_usertrack.so
mod_cache.so            mod_log_forensic.so  mod_version.so
mod_cern_meta.so        mod_logio.so         mod_vhost_alias.so
mod_cgid.so             mod_mem_cache.so

Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:53 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#3198

webune

just some notes that helped me fix my 500 error: i just want to be sure that i put this here. i recently moved my site to a new hosting server, and when i moved my website to the other server, my site did work as expected, instead i got this error message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at www.example.com Port 80

i checked your tutorial here and everything checked ok: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache so then i deleted my .htaccess file and reloaded the site, i didnt get the 500 error anymore, which tells me that the problem is with the syntax in the .htaccess file this is how my .htaccess file looked like (the first lines)

RewriteEngine On Options -Indexes # SHOWS INDEX.PHP FOR ROOT WEB DIRECTORY RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]

so what i did was i comment out 'Options -Indexes' so i changed this line to this:

#Options -Indexes

now it worked!!!!!

Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:44 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#3199

webune

another problem i had was that i had this on another .htaccess file the first two lines;

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

so i removed Options +FollowSymLinks, and it worked

Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:12 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#3245

helver..UK

can you use .htaccess with mamp to avoid this 500 error?

Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:33 am - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#3298

kivonletski

web4ce mod_rewrite joomla internal server error

Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:12 pm - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#3456

jamesi

the server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request htaccess joomla

Tue May 04, 2010 10:07 am - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#3926

jiki

i have web4ce .htaccess joomla

does any know how to solve this?

Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:48 am - Re: How To Fix Mod_rewrite 500 Internal Server Error On .htaccess File Apache

#4269

max

thas good job how about 404 page not found error? anyone have any idea? i use nulled script which use this rewrite mode :)

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