[drupal-devel] [bug] htaccess - rewriteengine giving error 500

[JohnG]

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