Default rewrites causing 500 on default install

[onesandzeros415]

Your default .htaccess causes a 500 internal server error. I've modified below to show how I think you meant for this to be done.

The following default .htaccess causes 500 Internal Server Error:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L] RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L] Options -MultiViews

With your above rewrite rules it appears that www.domain.com would be rewritten to www.domain.com/app/webroot and then the app takes over and says i need to direct this guy to the install folder. so it redirects to this url www.domain.com/install which rewrites to www.domain.com/app/webroot/install at that point it breaks down somehow.

I've verified the the following works:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^app/webroot/
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
Options -MultiViews

It seems as though that your web.config also has a similar issue that I will dig deeper into. Let me know if you have any questions or need any further insight.