500 Internal Server Error when using .htaccess with RewriteEngine

Question

I am on the shared host Bounceweb 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://mysit

Answer 1

Just save your .htaccess file with UTF-8 encoding (without BOM) and upload. Recommended to use Notepad++. (in my case that helped).

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