Htaccess 500 Error

  • Hi Frederick!

    I love W3TC, it has been working great on my site for over a year (LifeCoachSpotter.com).

    But the last week it has been taking my site down every day and resulting in a “500 Internal Server Error”. The .htaccess file keeps getting erroneously re-written, as you can see below.

    How do I fix this?

    Kindly let me know.

    Thanks in advance for your help!

    Tom Casano

    # BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>

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

# END WordPress
/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/json
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        # DEFLATE by extension
        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Browser Cache
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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  • Hi tcas314, hi Frederick,

    i had the same problem with a client site two weeks ago. W3TC wrote to the htaccess several times the same information and left it broken and the site inaccessible (internal server error). So at last I deleted the htaccess and the site came up again for some hours. After the same thing again…
    Now W3TC is deactivated and the site quite slow… So what can we do?

    Thankyou and kind regards, Chris

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

# END WordPress

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

# END WordPress
    Thread Starter tcas314

    (@tcas314)

    Hey Chris,

    For now i have also deactivated W3TC and I’m now instead using the plugin “WP Super Cache”. It’s definitely on par with W3TC and was the default one installed on my wordpress site. The last time I did it I still had the same htaccess issue, but since doing it 3 days ago, the site hasn’t gone down since.

    So that might be a solution — just to use a different caching plugin without the bug?

    I still haven’t heard back from W3TC, and I tried to submit a bug report through the plugin’s bug report area, but after hitting submit, it said I don’t have “permission to access this area”…

    Check out WP Super Cache… 6 million downloads, popular and seems to work well for me so far…

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