I had an internal server error 500 yesterday and the godaddy web support troubleshoot and renamed the htaccess file. After WP wrote a new file the website was ok again but I just wanted to know what was the cause so I don’t do it in future. He said it could be a permalink conflict problem. My WP set to permalink post name, and the Yoast seo was set to remove stop words. The code in htaccess had 122 pages of code (I started the website about 2-3 weeks).

This is the code
# WordPress SEO – XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sitemap_index.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^locations.kml$ /index.php?sitemap=wpseo_local_kml [L]
RewriteRule ^geo_sitemap.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=geo [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)?-?sitemap.xsl$ /index.php?xsl=$1 [L]
# END WordPress SEO – XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

The code in bold will just repeat itself for 121 pages and finally the server probably came out error 500. Any idea how this might happen?

seems like some rewriting rules problem caused by incorrect markup maybe? Maybe some plugin is messing it up. Minicorp is no making any modifications to the .htaccess file itself so this should be related to the WordPress or how some Plugin is entering the data into the “.htaccess”.

Unfortunately you’ll have to play around with it, change the settings, re-save permalinks and inspect how it changes the “.htaccess” file so you could identify what the cause is.

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Thanks for clarification the theme does not rewrite htaccess and for the tips outside of your theme!

I found the solution. I just put a line space between
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

also disabled WordPress SEO (Yoast) to auto take away stop words. Now I optimize permalinks manually. Now seems server has no more error. Not sure which solved it but good for now. Back to focus on writing great content!

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