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Editing htaccess causes internal server error 500

I download the htaccess file, add a 301 redirect rule to the end of it, upload the file to the server and it causes an Internal Server Error 500.

The weird thing is that when I remove the line I've added from the htaccess file and re-upload it, the Internal Server Error is still present and the site is broken.

Does anyone know what might be causing this?

Thanks,

Andy

Solution

  • Maybe it's wrong file coding. Open your .htaccess file in Notepad++. After running editor and entering the content into the edited htaccess file, click on the Format tab and make sure that the selected text encoding is UTF-8 (without BOM). Then save the file and resend it via FTP server (use FileZilla client). Maybe it help.