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  • questbg Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 5:00 am #137919

    Hi Support

    I’ve been working on a development site (address supplied) and this morning enabled SEF URL’s. I also enabled apache_mod rewrite. I then renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess and the SEF URL’s work fine with no 404 errors.

    However, since doing this the whole layout is messed up. Positions ‘left’ and ‘right’ now appear underneath the footer position.

    This only happens on the front page, clicking through to an article alters the layout and everything goes back to where it should be!

    Please can you help fix this, I don’t want to revert to a backup as I really want SEF URL’s to function.

    All admin passwords have been provided.

    Also, front end of site is password protected at the moment whilst it’s under development. Please use FTP user and pass to access front end.

    Many Thanks
    Chris

    isgroup Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 5:36 am #290191

    So you are using sh404sef.
    Well,goto Advanced Configuration tab on sh404sef and enable the ITEMIDs for the pages.
    Sometimes,it happens that, when you enable SEF,the pages are not well recognized and so all the module positions goes in vain and messed up..
    Just enable ITEMIDs for the URLs and that would fix it.
    Thanks 🙂

    questbg Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 5:42 am #290193

    Hi isgroup

    <em>@isgroup 110672 wrote:</em><blockquote>So you are using sh404sef.
    </blockquote>

    No. Just the standard “Search Engine Friendly URLs” and “Use Apache mod_rewrite” in the Joomla Global Config.

    The strange thing is, this is an exact duplicate of another site, same template, same plugins, etc., yet the other site works fine!

    Very odd. :((

    Thanks

    Chris

    questbg Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 1:25 pm #290269

    Hi Support

    PLEASE will somebody take a look at this. I posted specific ‘JA Support Required’ post around 8 hours ago. I sent all FPT and SuperAdmin login but nothing.

    My client is coming to view the site tomorrow and it looks a real mess right now.

    My only other option is to revert to a previous backup but this is not good, I have done a lot of work since.

    Thank you
    Chris

    bennitos Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 1:33 pm #290270

    Hello Chris,

    If you still dont have a reply tonight i dont mind having a look if you provide me some login info.
    Use 404sef on all my sites so i might be able to help.

    Ben

    questbg Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 1:38 pm #290273

    Hi Ben

    Thanks for that. I’m not using the 404 component, just standard Joomla.

    However, when I enabled today, front page is a whole mess!

    I’ll wait an hour, if not reply I’ll PM you all the details in case you can spot something obvious. It’s when I renamed the htaccess file to .htaccess that everything turned bad.

    Thanks again
    Chris

    bennitos Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 1:44 pm #290274

    <em>@questbg 110674 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi isgroup

    No. Just the standard “Search Engine Friendly URLs” and “Use Apache mod_rewrite” in the Joomla Global Config.

    The strange thing is, this is an exact duplicate of another site, same template, same plugins, etc., yet the other site works fine!

    Very odd. :((

    Thanks

    Chris</blockquote>

    Are both site’s also on the same webhost? Are they using the same setup in the htaccess file?

    bennitos Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 1:49 pm #290276

    another question did you install this site in a subfolder? like http://www.mysite.com/joomla ?

    questbg Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 3:08 pm #290284

    Hi Ben

    Both sites are on the same VPS but both are ‘independent’ so to speak.

    No subdirectories are being used. I’ve PM’d you deeper details.

    Basically:

    http://www.siteone.com works fine. I set up web hosting for http://www.sitetwo.com and transfer everything from site one into site two hosting space. After copy, I notice that for some reason SEF URLs is no longer active, so I activate.

    I then start getting 404’s and remember with site one I had to rename the htaccess file to .htaccess to get this to work. So, I copied the .htacess file form siteone (which works fine) to the copy of siteone in sitetwo hosting space. From there on, the entire layout was broken!

    Hope you or Anis can find a problem … support from JA has been non-existant today :((

    Thanks
    Chris

    bennitos Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 4:37 pm #290292

    Problem was caused by one of the articles (most likely bad formatting)

    I have send you in PM in wich section and wich article the problem was in.
    Disabled that one in JA news for now so that everything works like it should.

    Turned SEF on again and enabled the htaccess file.

    2 users say Thank You to bennitos for this useful post

    1. questbg
    2. tonyg
    questbg Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 4:42 pm #290293

    <em>@bennitos 110789 wrote:</em><blockquote>Problem was caused by one of the articles (most likely bad formatting)
    </blockquote>

    Many Thanks Ben. I think I know the article and will delete it and republish the section.

    A few credits on the way to you my friend, thank you!

    Chris

    isgroup Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 5:16 pm #290299

    Guess,your problem is solved. Another helpful thing to look at for such problems is the live_site var in the configuration.php file.

    Its the main issue,which causes such mess.

    Anyways,good to know,its solved !!
    Cheers.. 🙂

    bennitos Friend
    February 9, 2009 at 5:34 pm #290304

    <em>@isgroup 110798 wrote:</em><blockquote>Guess,your problem is solved. Another helpful thing to look at for such problems is the live_site var in the configuration.php file.

    Its the main issue,which causes such mess.

    Anyways,good to know,its solved !!
    Cheers.. :)</blockquote>

    yeah you are right, thats what i tried first 🙂

    Glad everything worked out on time Chris 😀

    Good luck with your client meeting tomorrow!

    questbg Friend
    February 10, 2009 at 1:49 pm #290459

    Thanks everyone. At least it’s working again. Client happy, so I can continue.

    I think a more serious issue here is the complete lack of support from JoomlArt. i’m a Developer Member, I hardly ever open a thread which demands JA Support, but this time I did. As requested I provided SuperAdmin passwords, FTP passwords, etc. and …

    NOTHING :((

    Not one single reply from JA Staff. >:(

    I sometimes have to wonder why we are all doing the work of JoomlArt support staff for free?

    OK. Rant Over.

    Thanks Bennitos, you rock 🙂

    Chris

    sensar Friend
    March 5, 2009 at 1:35 pm #294570

    <em>@bennitos 110789 wrote:</em><blockquote>Problem was caused by one of the articles (most likely bad formatting)

    I have send you in PM in wich section and wich article the problem was in.
    Disabled that one in JA news for now so that everything works like it should.

    Turned SEF on again and enabled the htaccess file.</blockquote>
    Thank you, I had the same problem and I thought that it was after a logo size change. It was not that. I unplublished the last article and it worked again.

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