.htaccess problem in GoDaddy, please help

Question

I have installed QnA in my domain alias site (my main domain is site1.com hosted in godaddy, QnA is installed in site2.com)

I see all the last 4 out of 5 (except the first one) option:

 /index.php/123/why-do-birds-sing
 /?qa=123/why-do-birds-sing
 /?qa=123&qa_1=why-do-birds-sing
 /index.php?qa=123&qa_1=why-do-birds-sing

But, I want the first option:  /123/why-do-birds-sing (requires htaccess file)

Could somebody plz provide me the .htaccess file, here I paste mine:

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /your-sub-directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//(.*)$
RewriteRule . %1/%2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

 

I contacted godaddy, and they said, everything is okay on their part after reading this page: http://www.question2answer.org/htaccess.php

Please, suggest. Even after 3 months of deploying the site and having more than 100 QnAs my site is not Google friendly.

 

Answer 1

Where you have the boxes saying "OK" (or blank as the case may be), they are actually iframes showing a URL like example.com/qa/url/test/some_junk_here

Try opening the iframe location in a new window, and let us know what you see, if there are any specific errors for example. That may help us or Godaddy find the issue.

Comments

"500 Internal Server Error" usually means there is a problem with the htaccess, but yours is exactly the same as the one I have on my site. Maybe try removing the first line (DirectoryIndex...) and see if it works?

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did that "removing the first line" as well, but no progress.
any suggestions?

Answer 2

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/4366/cant-make-htaccess-work-in-godaddys-linux-shared-hosting?show=11004#a11004