Why getting "Internal Server Error"

**egturnkey** · 10-01-2009, 12:09 PM

Hello friend,

i've index.php which has a link to index2.php

i create an .htaccess and added

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^example\.html$  index2.php

it works fine, when i cann /example.html it gives index2.php

Now for unicode lang such as arabic , russian , hebraw if we want index2.php be as مثال ( an arabic word ) then we write

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^مثال\.html$  index2.php

- it gives ( ANSI ) "Internal Server Error"

if i saved .htaccess as UTF, it gives also "Internal Server Error"

if i saved .htaccess as unicode, gives also "Internal Server Error"

if i saved .htaccess as UTF Without DOM it gives index.php and when i click on the links it gives can't find the page

so how it can be done ?

**vikas1234** · 10-04-2009, 11:21 PM

not sure about unicode in arabic language .. you should contact some arabic webmaster .

**cpace1983** · 10-05-2009, 10:29 AM

Based on some Googling (I was curious myself), it appears that the problem is that you are using unicode, instead of ANSI encoding.
The solution is simply just to use ANSI encoding, since there is an issue with using unicode in your .htaccess files with Apache. I have to admit, I've never had to deal with this myself, but it does make sense.