there is something wrong with mod rewrite parsing on the server, so my site is still down. I uploaded the exact same htaccess file that I had on the reackshack server, and got 500 errors on every page. I took out line after line and then and simplified my regex and looked in the error logs to see what was wrong and this is the error I got:
RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^(.*?).html$'
which is obviously a valid regex. Taking out the parenthesis get rid of the error and everything runs fine, but obviously without them I cannot use anything from the requested url in the rewrite without using them. I have no idea what could be happening but I would like to know what is wrong.
