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Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
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Joomla! version: 2.5.9
PHP version: 5.3.3
MySQL version: 5.1.6.7

Admin Tools version: 2.5.9

Description of my issue:
I am using Virtuemart 2 together with Joomla. The Virtuemart frontpage is the default home page. VM 2 has obviously a bug which does need a solution inside htaccess.
Where to input the following example with htaccessmaker without receiving a 500 server error:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=com_virtuemart RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Hello nicholas,

thanks for helping. I did find another alternative by patching the virtuemart.php file. The developers did code a link without using JRoute_. Now when adding the JROUTE_ it works without adding a custom htaccess rule. VM 2 has still a few very nasty bugs in case of routing, which prevent crawlers sometimes to crawl VM pages. The mentioned one is such a nasty bug.
If I find another bug, I will give it a try with custom htaccess rules. The disadvantage is, that writing htaccess rules to heal VM bugs slows down the page with every rule.

I agree to your opinion. Trying to convincing Max is barely possible. How do you want to convince someone who thinks that VM 2 is the best ever created ecommerce solution for Joomla and it is completely done by the best existing developer since Albert Einstein, named Max Milbers.