mod rewrite causes 500 internal server error

RewriteCond %{query_string} ^(page=[0-9]+?)&from=[0-9]+?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1?%1 [R=301,L]

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Whats wrong with this rewire rule?
I basically want to rewrite:

somesite.com/node?page=4&from=75

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to

somesite.com/node?page=4

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Thanks for your help.

 

It can be due to PHPsuEXEC as well. Did you recently updated your Apache without php suexec support to papache with php suexec support?

 

I was thinking about it, but I haven't done it (too much of a hassle).
Could you elaborate a little further though? I am a bit confused why this would have any impact on mod rewrite?

 

Or maybe mod_rewrite module is just no loaded into Apache. Check your httpd.conf or apache2.conf(as is the case) if the mod_rewrite is loaded and restart apache. For non-debian systems mod_rewrite is Loaded from httpd.conf. For debian systems mod_rewrite needs to be loaded by executing a2endmod rewrite. If it's a windows system it is also loaded form httpd.conf.

Regards
Andy

 

Maybe you need to add this line "RewriteEngine on" just above of your RewriteCond line ?

To detect the offending line, try removing one by one until the error dissapears. Then try adding that line with a basic syntax, and then step by step until that error appears again.

 

Thanks for the suggestions, here is a bit more information:
Mod rewrite is installed, this is not the only rewrite I have in my .htaccess and all others work just fine.
RewriteEngine on is there too, as I said I have multiple rewrites that work beautifully, so that can't be it.
I posted the two offending lines, I commented them out and everything works, I put them back and it breaks. I don't want to comment out only one of them, since they depend on each other.

Any other suggestions? Does anyone see anything wrong with this?

 

I'm not sure but I think you need to put %{QUERY_STRING} uppercase instead of %{query_string}

 

I have seen query string tests like this cause infinite loops though I am not sure why. Using an alternate approach has fixed it for me:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /node\?(page=[^&]+)&from=([^\ ]+)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1?%1 [R=301,L]

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See if that works for you.

 

Thanks guys. I will most defenitely try the last two suggestions (green is coming your way).