Title: htaccess causing internal server error (500)
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# htaccess causing internal server error (500)

 *  [Patrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomgift/)
 * (@randomgift)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-causing-internal-server-error-500/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m trying to use htaccess to redirect a list of old URLs but every time I try
   to add them to the htaccess file I get an internal server error.
 * I do have a 301 redirect plugin installed too.
 * Any ideas what’s wrong with this file? Thanks!
 *     ```
       # 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
   
       redirect 301 /real-mortgage-for-real-people http://www.mortgageadvicecenter.co.uk/mortgage-news
       redirect 301 /are-you-not-the-perfect-mortgage-applicant http://www.mortgageadvicecenter.co.uk/mortgage-news
       redirect 301 /there-are-funds-available-to-borrowers http://www.mortgageadvicecenter.co.uk/mortgage-news
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [Patrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomgift/)
 * (@randomgift)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-causing-internal-server-error-500/#post-2215408)
 * Does nobody know what’s going wrong here?
 * Thanks!
 *  [MickeyRoush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickeyroush/)
 * (@mickeyroush)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-causing-internal-server-error-500/#post-2215411)
 * Put this above ‘# BEGIN WordPress’
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^real-mortgage-for-real-people [NC,OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^are-you-not-the-perfect-mortgage-applicant [NC,OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^there-are-funds-available-to-borrowers [NC]
       RewriteRule .* http://www.mortgageadvicecenter.co.uk/mortgage-news [NC,L]
       ```
   

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 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [internal-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internal-error/)
 * [redirect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/redirect/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [MickeyRoush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickeyroush/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-causing-internal-server-error-500/#post-2215411)
 * Status: not resolved

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