Categories page does not work

[durspell]

This is a brand new Joomla installation. In the admin part, when I click on Categories, I get HTTP500 error. Products are there, everything else shows up. bu the category page. I uninstalled and re-installed the component, no changes. Thank you

[GJC Web Design]

https://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=117042.0

https://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=104795.0

https://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=79799.0

[durspell]

Thank you, but the enabling of the Developer mode produced just a blank page, not even the error anymore. The logs are not showing any errors. My version is VirtueMart 3.8.8 10472. I have another website with identical setup, ob which VM is not used but is there and it works just fine. Very puzzling.

[GJC Web Design]

unless you can report the 500 error which will be available " some where" then apart from owners of crystal balls no one can help you ...

assume its your template .. try with the std template

and all the other suggestions on https://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=117042.0?

If u wont make the effort then......   

[durspell]

When I remove the .htaccess file, it works for some time until a new htaccess is generated. Is there a workaround?
Thank you

[jenkinhill]

When I remove the .htaccess file, it works for some time until a new htaccess is generated. Is there a workaround?
Thank you

Who/what is generating a new .htaccess?