Edited My .htaccess File, Site Now Down

[jgk1013]

Hi I'm wondering if you guys can help me out with a problem. I was trying to change the permalink structure on my Wordpress blog and I was told I could edit my .htaccess file via ftp. So I used CyberDuck to get my .htaccess file, then I copy and pasted from what wordpress gave me (below) into a text file.

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

 

 

 

i uploaded the new text file with only the above as contents, called htaccess.txt, back up, then changed the name to .htaccess, clicked yes when it asked me to overwrite the old .htaccess file and thought I was all done. Except now my website is giving me a "500 Internal Server Error" My Website is here . Any help is much appreciated.

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, jgk1013.

 

I see a site on that address, so it looks like it´s fixed now. If you still can´t see it try clear your cache or try with another browser and see if it then works.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums jgk1013

[jgk1013]

thanks for the welcome. Yeah, I submitted a ticket through tech support and they fixed it for me but do you have any idea what the error might have been? I'd like to be able to fix this myself if it happens again.

[TCH-Andy]

I would ask via the ticket.

 

It could have been uploaded in the wrong format ( binary / ascii )