Need help with .htaccess file and mod-rewrite?

Hi,

i am able to access my website http://current-weather.info/ however when i enter the city name. I get an 500 internal server error. i have checked in the error logs and i found the below mentioned error message. I am hosting my site at godaddy , i have contacted the tech support and they are of no help and advised me to research on the internet i believe the problem is with .htaccess and i need to add some thing to the .htaccess file. I have not made any recent changes to the site.

Error message : " [Sun Aug 1 02:21:47 2010] [error] [client 115.98.203.238] mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary."

contents of my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Thanks in advance.

 

Try changing your .htaccess to

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

You were telling it that if the file existed then use the file which results in a loop.

 

I have changed the .htaccess as advised still does work. i am getting the same error 500 internal server. anything else that you can think of ?

 

Same error in the log file?

What else is in .htaccess can you post the whole of it.

 

Yeah thats right same error in the log file and only the code that you have mentioned is in the .htaccess file.

 

Try adding a RewriteBase to it so you have:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L] 

Code (markup):

 

thanks a ton. now its working , i just made a small change to the code that you have suggested .

Once again thanks a lot.