Question

I have copied the files and database from BradPPresents.com to BradP.com.

The .htaccess file is required to get pages to display properly since ‘Pretty URLs’ are enabled by joomla!.

You can see that the database and all connections are working at http://bradp.com/index.php, however http://bradp.com/home.html does not work as it relies on the .htaccess file to parse the URL.

I copied the identical htaccess file from bradppresents.com (currently working fine) to bradp.com and I get ‘Internal server error’ when the file is present. As soon as it is deleted the error goes away, but of course the site does not work as needed.

I’m hoping someone can shine a little light on this for me.

Here’s the .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|\.aspx|\.asp|/[^.]*)$  [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule (.*) index.php  ## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla! # # Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR] # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR] # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR] # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR] # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) # Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error! RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]  #max files size restrictions php_value upload_max_filesize 20M php_value post_max_size 20M 

Here’s the site configuration file from Apache.

<VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost          DocumentRoot /home/nick/public_html/bradp.com/html/         <Directory />                 Options FollowSymLinks                 AllowOverride All         </Directory>         <Directory /home/nick/public_html/bradp.com/html/>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                 AllowOverride All                 Order allow,deny                 allow from all         </Directory>          ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/         <Directory '/usr/lib/cgi-bin'>                 AllowOverride None                 Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch                 Order allow,deny                 Allow from all         </Directory>          ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log          # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,         # alert, emerg.         LogLevel warn          CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined         ServerSignature On      Alias /doc/ '/usr/share/doc/'     <Directory '/usr/share/doc/'>         Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride None         Order deny,allow         Deny from all         Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128     </Directory>  </VirtualHost> 

It’s essentially the default file with a few changes.

I really appreciate any help I can get; Thanks a million, Nick

Answer 1

Look into your error log to see the exact error message.

But since you say ‘copied’ in the first sentence, I assume you are moving from one host to another. The most likely cause then is that the rewrite module is not loaded on the new server.