htaccess & Joomla - Error 500

[mtippett]

Hi there,

I'm having problems with Joomla sites I host on hostican. Until recently I had a domain, coburnhouse.com, that used Joomla 1.0.x. It used sh404SEF to make the URL's search engine friendly and the site worked perfectly up until a week or so ago. Suddenly when you hit the domain (index.php) you got an error 500. However if you hit a page/file in a subdirectory it worked fine. It seems it's only the redirects that are playing up. So I disable the sh404SEF and suddenly I can access the index.php file on the domain.

If I try one of the SEO friendly URL's in the browser it just lands on the index.php.

I'm wondering whether this is due to a change to the server configuration by HostIcan as I haven't made any changes myself.

Here is what is unhashed in my .htaccess file...



RewriteEngine On

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php

Many thanks

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by mtippett

Hi there,

I'm having problems with Joomla sites I host on hostican. Until recently I had a domain, coburnhouse.com, that used Joomla 1.0.x. It used sh404SEF to make the URL's search engine friendly and the site worked perfectly up until a week or so ago. Suddenly when you hit the domain (index.php) you got an error 500. However if you hit a page/file in a subdirectory it worked fine. It seems it's only the redirects that are playing up. So I disable the sh404SEF and suddenly I can access the index.php file on the domain.

If I try one of the SEO friendly URL's in the browser it just lands on the index.php.

I'm wondering whether this is due to a change to the server configuration by HostIcan as I haven't made any changes myself.

Here is what is unhashed in my .htaccess file...



RewriteEngine On

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php

Many thanks

mtippett - Welcome to the community forum!

If you rename the .htaccess to .htaccess.old - what does it do? Does it work or still throw a Internal Server Error 500 ?

[mtippett]

hi Inxcode

Once I renamed .htaccess to .htaccess.old I could still hit the domain and see the index.php and other pages in non-SEO friendly URL's. I then turned on SEO friendly URL's and again i can hit the index.php. However I can't get to other pages (the ones which have their URL changed) instead I get a 404 error.

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by mtippett

hi Inxcode

Once I renamed .htaccess to .htaccess.old I could still hit the domain and see the index.php and other pages in non-SEO friendly URL's. I then turned on SEO friendly URL's and again i can hit the index.php. However I can't get to other pages (the ones which have their URL changed) instead I get a 404 error.

What im trying to determine is if:

With .htaccess you get internal server error - Yes / No

Without .htaccess do you get internal server error - Yes / No

Thats all... links arn't suppose to work while you do the test....
HostICan - Support - Pre-Sales, E-Mail, and so many more answers... :: Internal Server Error 500

Is some more informaiton

[mtippett]

Inxcode,

Thanks for the continued help.

From what I can see at my end with htaccess I get an internal server error & without htaccess I don't get the error. If I use the URL re-write function without htaccess it is able to rewrite the URL, just not in the form I want it.

But it's strange that this happened recently without me making any changes. This domain has been up for many months with the SEO friendly URL re-writer working fine. It's just recently that the problems started. I believe it could be a change that HostIcan made to their configuration.

I have looked over what they said regarding 500 errors and none of the things listed apply. All permissions are correct and the htaccess has worked previously; no changes have been made by me.

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by mtippett

Inxcode,

Thanks for the continued help.

From what I can see at my end with htaccess I get an internal server error & without htaccess I don't get the error. If I use the URL re-write function without htaccess it is able to rewrite the URL, just not in the form I want it.

But it's strange that this happened recently without me making any changes. This domain has been up for many months with the SEO friendly URL re-writer working fine. It's just recently that the problems started. I believe it could be a change that HostIcan made to their configuration.

I have looked over what they said regarding 500 errors and none of the things listed apply. All permissions are correct and the htaccess has worked previously; no changes have been made by me.

Ah, ok so now we know for sure its something with the .htaccess, and you are sure that its 100% nothing else in there apart from what you pasted above?

If so, I suggest commenting out the first paragraph of code and see if it works, to find out where it is... then narrow it down to a line... then you know what to fix.

[mtippett]

I tried the narrowing down etc but to no avail. I decided to start again one of of my sites.

I made the pages again in Joomla and added in the SEO plugin that changes the URL. It worked fine as a sub-directory of a domain I already successfully use with Joomla and the SEO plugin.

So I decide to point a domain name I have at the sub-directory. Suddenly the site gets error 500 whenever I hit it. If I look at the site through the sub-directory (where it's hosted) it works fine. If I disable the SEO plugin it works fine. But looking at it by using the domain that points to it suddenly screws it all up.

[seoguru]

You may need to post that on Joomla support forum, they are more knowledgeable in this.