Error with .htaccess mod-rewrite

Question

I get error 500 Internal Server Error when using the below lines in .htaccess file in the main directory of the website.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ar/?$ index.php?lan=ar [L]
RewriteRule ^en/?$ index.php?lan=en [L]

My intention is load website.com/index.php?lan=en when entering website.com/en . What could be the issue here?

Answer 1

I am also not seeing an issue here might be some other rule or conflicting htaccess , but you can do that easily by,

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/?$ index.php?lan=$1 [QSA,L]

Answer 2

Have you check if the mod_rewrite is enabled on your apache server ?

If you are on Windows, check the httpd.conf file inside the apache/conf directory on your web server.

On linux like Debian / Ubuntu, check if there is the file rewrite.so in /etc/apache2/mod-enabled/ directory. Otherwise, add the module with the command a2enmod rewrite && service apache2 restart