htaccess giving 500 response

[JamesB]

Hi there

 

I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error when using this .htaccess file:

 

 

RewriteEngine onRewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|public|forum|robots.txt)RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ukscifi/test.php [L]

 

Any idea why this is happening?

[Ingolme]

500 means that there's a syntax error in the htaccess file.

 

I think the $1 in your RewriteCond is probably the problem. $ signifies a backreference and is used as the second parameter after a regular expression. I'm not sure if RewriteCond uses backreferences or if it's just RewriteRule that does.

 

Where did you find this code?

[JamesB]

Well I'm using this htaccess code at the moment which works.

 

RewriteEngine onRewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|public|forum|robots.txt)RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ukscifi/index.php/$1 [L]

 

The code which doesn't work came from this code, as I was playing around with it trying to get anything else working.