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[Chantelle Goldstraw Friend Chantelle GoldstrawJoin date: September 2014Posts: 67Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 13 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#137858

Hi all, I have had an error when setting the SEO settings to yes in the Joomla back end.

The .htaccess file adn teh SEO friendly extensions and URLS.

It just throws a 404 error…. Why is this, works fine when I dissable the SEO URLS.

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#289953

are you on linux or windows server?

also, have you tried waiting a while before disabling SEO URLs? some servers takes a few hours to update for the SEO urls to work correctly

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1. Chantelle Goldstraw

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#289954

DO you mean wait a while after activating teh SEO back end or activating the .htaccess file?

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#289955

Oh and teh error message is
Error 500 – Internal server error

An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.

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#289957

http://www.teachmejoomla.net/joomla-mambo-tutorials-and-howtos/general-questions/how-to-enable-seo-on-joomla.html

read step 3 and see if anything there helps

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1. Chantelle Goldstraw

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#289958

<em>@telbino 110367 wrote:</em><blockquote>DO you mean wait a while after activating teh SEO back end or activating the .htaccess file?</blockquote>

most likely activating htaccess. some servers takes up to 1 hour to update the directory access rights.

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#289975

I have waited more than an hour and I still have the same problem.

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#289977

It actually seems to be a problem on all the sites I host at 1and1.co.uk. I have checked the sytems info and the server is running Apache, Linux and PHP 4…..

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#289987

Do you have the Apache rewrite enabled?

Have you more than one .htaccess file?

Can you post the text of your .htaccess here?

[Chantelle Goldstraw Friend Chantelle GoldstrawJoin date: September 2014Posts: 67Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 13 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#289995

Not sure, how can I tell if apache rewrite is enabled?

here is the .htaccess text.

##
# @version $Id: htaccess.txt 10492 2008-07-02 06:38:28Z ircmaxell $
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 – 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Joomla! is Free Software
##

#####################################################
# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE
#
# The line just below this section: ‘Options +FollowSymLinks’ may cause problems
# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url’s. If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
#
#####################################################

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options +FollowSymLinks

#
# mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On

########## Begin – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
#
# Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_{1,21}(=|%3D)
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*(.*)
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C).*script.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|{0,2})
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#
########## End – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits

# Uncomment following line if your webserver’s URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /

########## Begin – Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|.php|.html|.htm|.feed|.pdf|.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* –
#
########## End – Joomla! core SEF Section

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#289998

.htaccess looks fine.

Go to admin>Global Config> SEO Settings and set Use Apache mod_rewrite to yes.

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#290000

Okay teh odd thing is I set the “Use Apache mod_rewrite” to no and the SEO urls almost works.

Now I it only appends the main menu items, if if I browse to an article through the right menus it doesnt append the URLS… Any ideas on that one? I checked my servers and they say they I have apache activated mod-rewrite although I was unable to find it in the server info in the back end of Joomla admin.

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#290001

I tried with it set to YES, I tried them all set to yes and every concievable configuration I could imagine.
But can only get rid of the error message by leaving teh .htaccess set in the site root and leaving Apache mod_rewrite set to No….. But this doesnt work with otehr sites I have done. what have I done wrong or has gone wrong? Im’ flummoxed!

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