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[Resolved] Error 500 rewriting .htaccess file over and over

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Last updated by Andrey 1 year, 6 months ago.

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October 18, 2023 at 8:01 pm #14608771

abdullahA-124

Hello

Having 500 internal server error since I installed this plugin.
“The Workaround” mentioned on the website does not work at all.

Issues arise while we are trying to change something in the post of another language or just by clicking “view” in the dashboard…. Also every time I refresh the page in the translated language I get the 500 error

Because of that, WPML change my .htaccess rule regularly

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /ar/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /ar/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

So I would need to fix this manually by applying the correct rules every single time which is not a solution…..

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Please advise
October 18, 2023 at 9:55 pm #14609055

Andrey
WPML Supporter since 06/2013

Languages: English (English ) Russian (Русский )

Timezone: Europe/Kyiv (GMT+03:00)

I’m sorry that you ran into trouble with this!

Have you tried the following workaround?

https://wpml.org/errata/htaccess-is-rewritten-with-language-folder/

As a temporary workaround you can add the following lines to the functions.php of your theme: 

add_filter('mod_rewrite_rules', 'fix_rewritebase');
function fix_rewritebase($rules){
    $home_root = parse_url(home_url());
    if ( isset( $home_root['path'] ) ) {
        $home_root = trailingslashit($home_root['path']);
    } else {
        $home_root = '/';
    }
 
    $wpml_root = parse_url(get_option('home'));
    if ( isset( $wpml_root['path'] ) ) {
        $wpml_root = trailingslashit($wpml_root['path']);
    } else {
        $wpml_root = '/';
    }
 
    $rules = str_replace("RewriteBase $home_root", "RewriteBase $wpml_root", $rules);
    $rules = str_replace("RewriteRule . $home_root", "RewriteRule . $wpml_root", $rules);
 
    return $rules;
}