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1. tom5955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey,

   I'm attempting to re-do the permalinks on my site because I've installed buddypress, and updating the permalinks is require apparently. So I create a .htaccess file and place it in the root folder, and copy the bit which I've copied from the permalinks page:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   Copy it into the ftp client and upload it, and I get a Internal Server error. Then I tried deleting all the text in the .htaccess file, thinking it might be something wrong with the code - still an issue. I delete the .htaccess file, and the blog works perfectly again. So i'm not sure what I can do to get the blog up and running with buddypress installed.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

   Thanks,
   Tom

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sounds like you have the wrong character encoding or wrong line endings in the file. Create the blank .htaccess file with FTP, not on your PC; most FTP clients have a "new file" command and will create a blank file with the right encoding for your server.

3. tom5955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks, that worked great.

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