S.E.O Mod

[Katash +]

v4.1.6 Developer

Any Template


When enabled (SEO V 2.1.1) The navigation links (Home, Search, Contact, Browse & Featured) point to a .html page .... Clicking these links for example takes me to www.mysite.com/contactus.html

which displays an error page with

Multiple Choices
The document name you requested (/contactus.html) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.

Available documents:

* /contactus.php (common basename)

Please consider informing the owner of the referring page about the broken link.

[Lhotch +]

sounds like you dont have the mod installed properly OR your server doesnt have the mod_rewrite enabled.

did you implement the .htaccess file?

[Katash +]

Just double checked and noticed I'd accdentally named it htaccess instead of .htaccess

Having changed that I'm now getting a 404 error on those links

[Lhotch +]

and does your server have mod_rewrite installed?

and have you cleared your sites cache?

[Katash +]

Just trying to find out about my host and its policy on mod_rewrite (1and1.co.uk)

Cache cleared yes

[Katash +]

Looks like it may be a 1&1 issue

tried this tutorial in a test dir and it didnt work

[Katash +]

Ok I think I have managed to get this to work by adding these lines to the .htaccess file

# Author $Author: suzkaw $ (68 Classifieds)
# Version $Revision: 23 $
# Updated: $Date: 2009-11-30 14:59:55 -0500 (Mon, 30 Nov 2009) $

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /


#index
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ index.php [NC,QSA]

[seymourjames +]

Strange - you should only need this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

(sometimes you may need to rewritebase depending upon what you are doing and where your site is in relation Apache module mod_rewrite)

.
.
.

</IfModule>

I would ask your hosting provider. I presume you are doing this on a live server?

[Katash +]

Yes that works

[Katash +]

Just to confirm that adding RewriteBase / under RewriteEngine On worked, maybe a 1&1 issue - If anyone else is having this problem try that.

Thanks to all that helped.