title: Intermittent 404 and 500 errors with redirect permanent to Wordpress site
body: <p>I have been bequeathed a Wordpress site that has been created in a sub-directory of our current main web site (standard HTML). So I have:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.company.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.company.com/</a> as main site</p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.company.com/newsite/" rel="nofollow">http://www.company.com/newsite/</a> as the wordpress site.</p>
  
  <p>The underlying directory structures are:</p>
  
  <p>/company-com/</p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p>/company-com/newsite/</p>
  
  <p>This is (needless to say) somewhat inconvenient. However it would be a problem for various reasons to change this structure so I would like to stick with if at all possible.</p>
  
  <p>I have created a .htaccess file in the /company-com/ directory with (for example)</p>
  
  <p>redirect permanent /aboutus.htm  <a href="http://www.company.com/newsite/aboutus/" rel="nofollow">http://www.company.com/newsite/aboutus/</a></p>
  
  <p>So far I have about 20 redirects for various pages.</p>
  
  <p>This appeared to be working OK until I noticed by chance that we were getting 500 errors. This transpired to be intermittent. Calling our hosting provider 1and1, support said it was because we were running out of processing power and needed to upgrade our package (!). Previously I had raised an online ticket and got fed up of waiting for response. This ticket has replied saying problem is with .htaccess file.</p>
  
  <p>Question:</p>
  
  <p>Which one is correct? From what I have read the .htaccess file would cause permanent problems rather than intermittent so I would go with the lack of processing power.</p>
  
  <p>Regards
  Steve Booth</p>