Error 500 / mod_rewrite / 1&1 hosting

[eluser]Mr. Fulop[/eluser]
Hi Stanfield,

1) First of all take a look at your webservers error and access log.
2) I would suggest starting from an empty .htaccess file and then add the rules and see which one gives you the 500 error.
4) Check your Code Igniter config file and set the uri_protocol like this :
$config['uri_protocol']= "REQUEST_URI"; (or set it to "AUTO")
3) I would keep in the .htaccess file just the following:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /your/root/to/your/html/files/
    # Send request via index.php (again, not if its a real file or folder)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Hope it helps...