Mod rewrite - results in Error 500, Internal server error

[sanjay]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use mod-rewrite on this domain - http://animalwelfare.agnutrilink.net/  - clicking the links result 500 server errors.

I'm using CMSMS 1.0.2 - Apache - PHP 5 and MYSQL - versions link: http://faq.1and1.com/miscellaneous/17.html

This is my ISP's mod rewrite link:

http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_language ... ess/4.html

My config urls section and .htaccess : http://cmsmadesimple.org/pastebin/355

I tried to put #s in front of the 3 items under the 301 redirect (a suggestion on irc) but no sucess.

Any help will be appreciated.

~sanjay

[tsw]

I suppose that paste had some config.php content too? (if that was a full copy paste from your .htaccess remove all php code from .htaccess)

another thing might be

Options +FollowSymLinks

not all hosts allow this directive try disabling that line.

hope this helps

[sanjay]

Thanks for the suggestions on the forum and IRC....  here's the fix   

'm not sure why this worked... I scanged the page extension from '/' to '.html' - I had seen .html being used by another CMSMS site and tried it. I hope that won't cause problems else where.

http://animalwelfare.agnutrilink.net/ 

#-------------------------------
#URL Settings  --  in config.php
#-------------------------------

#Show mod_rewrite URLs in the menu? You must enable 'use_hierarchy' for this to work for modules
$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';

#If you don't use mod_rewrite, then would you like to use the built-in
#pretty url mechanism?  This will not work with IIS and the {metadata} tag
#should be in all of your templates before enabling.
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;

#If you're using the internal pretty url mechanism or mod_rewrite, would you like to
#show urls in their hierarchy?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/parent/parent/childpage)
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

---------------
.htaccess file
---------------

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]