500 Internal Server Error when using .htaccess with RewriteEngine
I am on the shared host [Bounceweb][1] and I am trying to add some rewrite rules to make my links look prettier.

One of these rules is to make the url: `http://mysite.com/upload` point to: `http://mysite.com/upload.php`. I have this in my .htaccess file:

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^upload$ upload.php

but all it's giving me is a 500 Internal Server Error. I looked at my logs and this comes up a lot:

    [alert] [client 81.179.29.185] /home/minecraf/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command '\xef\xbb\xbfRewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Does this mean my host doesn't support .htaccess? Pretty lame if they don't. I've already tried changing the permissions of .htaccess to 777 and it doesn't help.

Thanks!


  [1]: http://bounceweb.com
500 Internal Server Error when using .htaccess with RewriteEngine
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I am on the shared host [Bounceweb][1] and I am trying to add some rewrite rules to make my links look prettier.

One of these rules is to make the url: `http://mysite.com/upload` point to: `http://mysite.com/upload.php`. I have this in my .htaccess file:

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^upload$ upload.php

but all it's giving me is a 500 Internal Server Error. I looked at my logs and this comes up a lot:

    [alert] [client 81.179.29.185] /home/minecraf/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command '\xef\xbb\xbfRewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Does this mean my host doesn't support .htaccess? Pretty lame if they don't. I've already tried changing the permissions of .htaccess to 777 and it doesn't help.

Thanks!


  [1]: http://bounceweb.com