.html or not?

[chili5]

Yeah I figured it was wrong, I found it on some web site, I know not to go to that site anymore.

so my .htaccess now appears like this:

ErrorDocument 400 /errors/400.html 
ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.html 
ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.html 
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html 


AddType text/html .shtml 
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html


order allow,deny
deny from 123.45.6.7
deny from 012.34.5.
allow from all

Redirect /docs/old/index.html http://localhost/docs/php/test.php  

AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf
AddType application/octet-stream txt 

IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg *.css *.js 

<ifModule mod_php4.c>
 php_value zlib.output_compression 16386
</ifModule>

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule bg-(.*)-font-(.*)\.html$ test.php?bgcolor=$1&fontColor=$2

however I still get a 500 server error when I browser to any page.

[TcM]

And if you delete the

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule bg-(.*)-font-(.*)\.html$ test.php?bgcolor=$1&fontColor=$2

It does not show you a 500 server error?

[chili5]

Yes I removed that and the server error disappeared.

[TcM]

Hmm, it's very strange... I copied/pasted that from my website and just changed the wording. The test.php is in a subfolder?

[chili5]

Nope its in the root htdocs folder.

My server is xampp

I have it root of C:

it appears like this:

C:\
XAMPP\
htdocs\
test.php
.htaccess

is it possible that my server can't use rewrite?

[TcM]

Yeah, it is possible that it does not allow that.

But I tried an online validator, my syntax is ok... but it found an error in yours:

<ifModule mod_php4.c>
php_value zlib.output_compression 16386
</ifModule>

Maybe it is interfering?

[chili5]

Ok i think that my server doesn't allow rewriting that I know of. I removed everything in it and still got the server error so I don't know.

Thanks

[TcM]

Well.. I'm sorry I can't help more... but I think there should be a way to enable that.

[chili5]

Yeah it's ok, i'll figure it out eventually maybe.

[TcM]

Hope for the best...

Try this:
enabling mod rewrite in xampp « me looking so small in this world