[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Using W3TC on multisite without getting 500 error

Hi Shaansh,

This is most likely related to your .htaccess file. Would you be able to post a copy of this here?

Kind regards
Jamie

Hello Jamie, thank you for replying. My .htaccess content is

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/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

Hi shaansh,

Thank you for that, I can see a few things that could cause the 500 error your seeing.

What happens if you upload a clean (blank) .htaccess file?

Kind regards
Jamie
—–
Pipe Ten Support Team

Hi shaansh,

Thank you for that, I can see a few things that could cause the 500 error your seeing.

What happens if you upload a clean (blank) .htaccess file?

Kind regards
Jamie
—–
Pipe Ten Support Team

1st of all, thanks again for replying. Secondly,what do you mean by clean .htaccess? If I upload the .htaccess with the code below, the website works perfectly okay, i.e no 500 Internal error.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

However, trying to access W3TC setting just makes my site crash again.

EDIT: I didnt see the keyword “blank”. I tried uploading blank .htaccess file too. It works fine as well (i.e no 500 Internal server error)