htaccess issue - 500 internal error

Question

I have installed an app which has the following rewrite rule. It runs fine in a VPS setup - but in every shared hosting it is showing 500 error. The log is showing "bad delimiter" - I am completely clueless after trying for some time. Please help

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteRule ^assets/css/(.*) /wp-content/themes/liinks theme/assets/css/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^assets/js/(.*) /wp-content/themes/liinks theme/assets/js/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^assets/img/(.*) /wp-content/themes/liinks theme/assets/img/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^plugins/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> 

Thanks

Answer 1

While I'm not sure that this is the culprit, spaces in urls need to be treated specially, in this case, escaping the space with a \.
Turning

/wp-content/themes/liinks theme/assets/css/$1

into

/wp-content/themes/liinks\ theme/assets/css/$1

should resolve one possible problem.