Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/21385 Project: Drupal Version: 4.6.0 Component: file system Category: bug reports Priority: critical Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: JohnG Updated by: JohnG Status: patch problem: (I'm guessing this falls into the filesystem category ... please feel free to move it if appropriate) immediately following upgrade from 4.5.2 (2005.03.15) to 4.6.0 (on linux-apache-mysql-php server) getting error 500 reports everytime I click a link (from the admin or home page). The problem seems to lie about 3 or 4 lines from the end of the htaccess file: the ReWriteRule is missing a backslash preceding index.php. it did look like this RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] it should look like this RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] in context, this is the end of the htaccess file, with the correction: # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] </IfModule> # $Id: .htaccess,v 1.66 2005/03/20 19:15:00 dries Exp $ A number of other solutions have been put forward for this recurring problem. I found this solution from a 4.4 issue at http://drupal.org/node/7836. It seems to work just fine and is obviously preferable to disabling the Htaccess or ReWriteEngine and losing clean URLs. good luck to y'all JohnG JohnG