joomla url rewriting

[abdelhadi.majdi52]

Hi everybody,
i have installed joomla but when i have activated url rewriting it doesn't work, it gives me this message : Internal Server Error
i have to say that before to activate the option : use apach mode rewrite i have renamed : htaccess.txt to .htaccess using ftp, can you please tell me what's wrong with it ?
thanx

[Zubair]

Hello,

It should be fixed now.

[abdelhadi.majdi52]

Thnx for your reply, the problem now is that i can't have access to my website nor to the administrator area, when i type the domain name of my website it gives me a 500 Internal server error message, is it there something i should fix by ftp ? do i have to install joomla again ? can you help plz ?
thnx again

---------- Post added 03-20-2011 at 01:31 AM ---------- Previous post was 03-19-2011 at 07:29 PM ----------

Hello again;
actually i'm able to access to my website admin but the problem with the url rewriting persist, it still gives me the same 500 Internal server error message, i really don't know what's wrong with it.

[misson]

A 500 error is a generic error indicating a misconfiguration. Go through the recommendations outlined in the link. If you still need help, post a minimal test case, a complete yet concise example of what isn't working, along with a description of what you want and what you get.

[descalzo]

With clean URLs enabled, open your .htaccess

You should have a line

RewriteBase /

before any RewriteRule . If it is commented out ( a # in front of it), remove the #

If your installation is in a subdirectory of public_html, say myjoomla, make the line read

RewriteBase /myjoomla/

[abdelhadi.majdi52]

Hello,
Thank you all for your answers,special thanx to descalzo, your answer helped me and i resolved the problem, everything is working perfectly now
thnx again for your help