htaccess: Could this be why my server crashed?

[stidj]

My htaccess file looks like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \.(php¦html)$ index.php

I do not have the full path to index.php but it was still working properly.........

but after playing around with using /index.php etc.. my server has crashed

Could it have been because I didn't specify the full path anymore ( the reason for not wanting to use the full path is to ensure the file would automatically work on any host since every host has a different full path and I am moving this domain )

So could this have possibly caused a crash or is it just coincidence?

Any thoughts would be most appreciated

[lemat]

I think you just have created an endless loop
you have to exclude index.php from this pattern.