[alesis404]

Tried again last line removed but get internal error again, just to be sure and this may be stupid question...The contents of the .htaccess file should just be the code correct? and not the standard .htaccess contents like

AuthUserFile /home/whatever/info/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Hello"
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

*I have simply made a file named .htaccess and inserted just your code and none of the usual .htaccess code like above...is this correct?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^data/([^$]*).html$ html.php?file=data/$1.html
RewriteRule ^[ft]([0-9]+)/s([^/]*)/(.+)$ /$3 [L]

**And then tried the second time with the contents of .htaccess being

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^data/([^$]*).html$ html.php?file=data/$1.html