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I have had a subdomain setup recently, and wanted to redirect all old URL requests to the new subdomain. I have the code that does just that, through my .htaccess file.
Here is the problem: the web host seems not to support subdomains by default, they are using some sort of round about way to define the subdomains (don't know the details, just telling you what they told me). Whenever I have ANY code in the .htaccess file, the subdomain does not function anymore. The .htaccess file forwards fine to the address I want (the URL looks right in the address bar), but I get a cobalt error, saying something about a possible misconfiguration).
I think that what ever they are doing sees the .htaccess file with code in it, and decideds to abandon it's routine?
Can anyone help me and suggest as to why the subdomain stops working, even when I have something as simple as Options +FollowSymLinks
as my only line in .htaccess?
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, admin@trouble.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Well, I've never used cobalt, so I can't even guess. In addition to seeing if anyone replies here, you might want to search for cobalt-specific FAQs and discussion boards. If you do get a good answer somewhere else that works, please do post about here, though, to let us know what the general problem was.
Jim
