What is wrong with my .Htaccess file? I'm trying to redirect permanently my whole site to the index.htm file

Question

This is giving me a 500 internal server error. Any suggestions? I have tried various examples but I think I'm missing something...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond  %{request_uri}!^ /index\.htm
RewriteRule  ^(.*) /index\.htm [R=permanent,L]

It displays the homepage if I navigate there but anything that meets the conditions (all appart from index.htm gives the server 500)

EDIT: with the above code it now doesnt give any 500 errors but it doesnt redirect for any pages

Answer 1

You're not redirecting to /index.htm, you're redirecting to / which is different as far as Apache is concerned.

Try: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.htm [R=permanent,L]

Answer 2

Your rewrite condition isn't split up well and your Not-StartWith is part of the previous parameter. :) You need a space after the %{REQUEST_URL} and before the !^

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.htm$
RewriteRule  ^(.*) /index.htm [R=permanent,L]