Friendly URLs not working

Annika

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 08:40:50

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Hi there!

First of all, I'd like to say that I really like this script. It's simple, it's clean, it's just wonderful. Pretty much all of what I've been looking for is in N13.

There's just one setback. I can't get Friendly URLs to work. :noexpression:

In the Settings I've set it to these options:
Enable Friendly URLS: Yes
File Extension: /
Prefix: (blank)
Directory Filename: (blank)

I'm trying to go for website.com/news-title-here/ Instead of website.com/?id=2
Could someone help me out please? :blushing:

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Last edited by Annika at 2009-10-18 08:41:58 Reason:

Chris

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 08:50:08

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Hi Annika,

I noticed a slight problem with friendly URLS. If you download and extract this file. Upload it to your server replacing your own copy of config.php this should correct the problem.

Now to get friendly URLs to work use these settings.

Code:


Enable friendly URLs: Yes
File extension: .html
Prefix: /news/
Directory filename: index.html

It should then work. If not try moving the .htaccess file to your main www directory.

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Annika

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:00:07

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Hi! Thank you for the speedy reply.

I've done what you said but now I get 404 error when I click on the comments link.

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Chris

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:01:30

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Did you try moving the .htaccess file to the main directory?

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Annika

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:02:46

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Yes I did. Here are the contents of my .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /news/index.php [L]

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Chris

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:05:16

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Can you create a new file called phpinfo.php and inside it put this code

Code:


<?php
phpinfo();
?>

then link me to that file so I can take a look at the server settings.

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Annika

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:11:35

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I forgot to mention that I'm working from a local server setup on my computer.

I've saved the data from the phpinfo.php and saved it online.

http://spookydot.net/phpinfo.php.htm

I feel kind of silly now and wonder if working on the actual server would make a difference. I'll update here when I've tried using friendly urls on the live server, too.

Edit: My live server isn't available. Been having a lot of downtime. :cry:

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Last edited by Annika at 2009-10-18 09:15:35 Reason:

Chris

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:18:27

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If you're developing on your own local server, you need to have mod_rewrite enabled within apache for friendly URls to work.

if you edit your apache httpd.conf file and search for

Code:


#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

remove the # at beginning of that line

Then you need to search for a line of text that'll look like

Code:


<Directory "D:/www">

Except D:/www being whatever your document root is. Once you find that line, somewhere just below it you'll see

Code:


AllowOverride none

change that to

Code:


AllowOverride all

Save, restart your server and now hopefully friendly URls will work.

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Last edited by Chris at 2009-10-18 09:19:25 Reason:

Annika

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:22:09

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I've checked my httpd.conf file and the settings have already been set like you described above.

I'm stumped.

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Chris

Posted on 18 Oct 2009, 09:24:51

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This page shows you a quick way you can check if mod_rewrite is enabled. Give it a try to see if it works or not.

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