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  • jobe
    Member
    • Oct 2004
    • 50
    #1

    joomla/mambo + htaccess

    I've installed Joomla several times recently - very easy & impressive all round, trying to decide whether to invest a lot of time in it. The only thing holding me back is when I put on the search engine friendly urls command in the admin panel & change htaccess.txt >> htaccess I get 404 on all the pages.

    I know very little about this but part of checking out if the server allows htaccess override is to delete the existing code in the file & put in the following:

    Redirect/google.html http://www.google.com

    And then inthe browser:
    Page Not Found - 404 Error Page
    http://www.mysite.com/google.html


    This should then take you to google but I still get a 404.

    Any ideas on this would be appreciated. Thanks.
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    • thewave
      Member
      • Feb 2005
      • 45
      #2
      Are you naming the file .htaccess or just htaccess ? It needs to be .htaccess in order to function.

      Hope this helps

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        • -Oz-
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2004
          • 545
          #3
          thewave has the right idea. The way i do it is to create:
          temp.htaccess
          upload that to the server, rename it .htaccess by removing the .temp then download it to my computer so that i have a .htaccess on my computer for use whenever i need it.
          Dan Blomberg

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            • jobe
              Member
              • Oct 2004
              • 50
              #4
              Thanks. Yes, I was missing the '.' but with it I'm now getting a 500 error on the google redirect.

              And when I put the code back in for joomla & upload it as .htaccess I get a 500 error on all pages including the admin section so that I can't get in at all.

              I have tried the above in both the joomla folder & on the public_html folder & both give me 500 errors on anything I wish to view in either.

              The permissions are 644, if that makes a difference?

              I'm on cpanel22 - anyone else?

              ***************************

              For some reason - half an hour later - the joomla sef urls are working as they should - with the change to .htaccess. Maybe the order I went though this time....Thanks for the help.
              Last edited by jobe; 10-07-2005, 12:57 AM.

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                • sdjl
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 502
                  #5
                  The above looks a little off to me.
                  A redirect needs to take the following form:

                  Code:
                  Redirect /google.html http://www.google.com
                  Hope that helps

                  David
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                  Do you fear the obsolescence of the metanarrative apparatus of legitimation?

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                    • jobe
                      Member
                      • Oct 2004
                      • 50
                      #6
                      Yes, that worked. Thanks.

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                        • djn
                          Senior Member
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 140
                          #7
                          Just a quickie: if Windows won't let you rename a file to .htaccess you can do it anyway from the Dos command line

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