.htaccess mod_rewrite just broke the site...

Answer 1

Lucas, I think you're last two rules are missing a / before the pattern. And also take out [PT] it's not appropriate in this case.

RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /index.php?test=1&page=$1&section=$2
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)$ /index.php?test=1&page=$1 [L]

Tom

Answer 2

"no werkie" is a little vague... The edit you made to the rules seems fine. Maybe the index.php page is expecting the "test" variable to be present and will crash if it isn't?

Instead of removing the "test" variable from the query string, try just changing "test=1" to "test=0" instead.

Answer 3

Sounds like a problem in your index.php file, not .htaccess. What happens when you access index.php without test=1 directly instead of via the rewritten URL? I suspect it's configured to throw a 500 error in that situation.