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depends if it is a laravel 500 error or apache?
Have you checked the Laravel logs?
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I am trying to get a site working on my hosting provider but I get a 500 error and I think it has something to do with the .htaccess file. I am using laravel 9 and PHP 8 but is this a good htaccess file?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Turn Off mod_dir Redirect For Existing Directories
DirectorySlash Off
# Rewrite For Public Folder
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/acme-challenge/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/cpanel-dcv/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/ [L]
</IfModule>
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