Hi all,

Just following up on the thinkingminds website and the problem that I was having with the friendly SE URLS.

I no longer have the htaccess.txt file on the site and am therefore confused as to how to recreate this file to have the correct code in it to copy and swap across to the blank .htaccess file as was discussed in the meeting tonight.

If I could get a run down again on the forum that would be much appreciated.
I am sorry, but I cant remember everyones names, but you all know who you are and hopefully read this post and know what I am referring to.

Regards,

Anthony.

Hi there

which version of Joomla are you on?
then someone can just attach the missing file here
If it's 1.5.14, the file is attached here.

Dex

Hi Dex,

yes it is. Thanks very much for that.

cheers,

anthony

You also can download the whole Joomla package here and extract the htaccess.txt file from it:
www.joomla.org/download.html

Thanks Dex,

I wasnt sure if the htaccess file would have code that was unique to each site. (Clearly I need to learn more about it).
We were discussing one of my sites last night. thinkingminds.com.au

What is happening is that when I switch to friendly SEO settings in the global config section. I am getting a "cannot find page and cannot find 404 error page" error.

The exact error is here...
In this example I tried to click the services link...
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Not Found

The requested URL /services.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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We spoke last night about it thinking that it might have been the incorrect .htaccess file (as I had accidently deleted the original htaccess.txt file).

However after replacing this and renaming it to .htaccess, I am coming up with the same problems... hmmm...

If you or anyone else has any suggestions I would be grateful.

I have just switched the site back to not SEO friendly links as the site is now live and I cant afford to have dud links.

Cheers,

Anthony...

Hi Anthony,

This may be the blind leading the blind here...

but I had a similar problem, and it arose when my client changed hosts. I did a bit of research and all of the similar problems I read about were solved by calling the host. I called the host and it was purely a matter of them altering a path called on in the htaccess, as they had a slightly different structure to the htaccess file I had uploaded.

Cheers

Alice