htaccess file = Internal Server Error

Zka

Hello

I'm building a new website. I need to use some htaccess magic. Adding ANY htaccess file to the site causes Internal Server Error 500 which is very weird. Just adding an empty htaccess file is enough to kill the site.

My other websites use htaccess just fine.
The application type is the exact same as the other sites (Apache/PHP-FPM). I even downgraded the PHP version to 7.4 to exactly match the others.
Check the app stellawake on opal7 if you want to see the error.

Regards
Zoltán

sean

Zka The error in your app's error log (under ~/logs/apps/name_of_app) is:

Invalid command '\xef\xbb\xbf', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module 
not included in the server configuration

\xef\xbb\xbfis a Unicode byte order mark so it seems your empty htaccess file isn't entirely empty. Perhaps your text editor added it?

If you're not able to remove the invisible character with your text editor then you might be able to do so by running the following command in a SSH session from within your app directory:

dos2unix -r .htaccess

Zka

Yep, this was causing the error. So weird, it was added by the text editor and caused zero issues on localhost... After removing that junk, it works now. Thanks a lot. Stellar support speed.