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Hi there,

I have just installed Joomla! version 1.5.3, and am having some troubles with the SEF function.

website: http://myautosphere.com/j/

Click on any of the "Latest News" items to get an error:

404 - Component not found

Settings:

Search Engine Friendly URLs : Yes
Use Apache mod_rewrite: No
Add suffix to URLs: Yes

Apache version 1.3.39 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.4
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard

Please help!

Thank you.



Chris

Found the solution in the joomla wiki:

Joomla specific SEO / SEF tricks:


Posted by dextercowley in regards to correcting a problem when enableing Search Engine Friendly URLs in the Global Configuration of Joomla 1.5.2 and tested and verified to be true for 1.5.3 as well.

" ... edit configuration.php as var $live_site = 'http://www.mysite.com' "

Note that default configuration.php is var $live_site = ''

All fixed!

Damn. I was hoping this would fix my problem. But it didnt'.

I've enabled Search Engine Friendly URLS and use mod_rewrite which comes with Joomla.

On my front page it shows a 404 page when i click read more or the title link.

I have a news loader which brings news into a module position and those read more's are working.


Anyone got a clue on what could be the problem?

I disabled Joomlas SEF system and installed SmartSEF. It works perfect!!

I recommend everyone who has this problem and want to run SEF to do the same.

I am having the same problem and the smartsef didn't fix please help thanks

Tell us a bit about your problem. What setting do you have and what erros occur?

I have joomla 1.5.3 running on apache with PHP 5 running installed and running great just when I click on a read more tab or latest new i get 404 error and when using the contact form it sends email and displays 404error

Does it work when you turn sef and mod rewrite off?

no when clicked at that point it reloads the page

Hmm.. Did it ever work? Have you installed something in between? A component or plugin?

Have you flushed your browsers cache?

it has never worked and i did flush the browsers cache any suggestions

Hmmm. I dont know. So I

I had several problems like those, with sef turned on.
I am back to 1.0.15 till 1.5 becomes more stable

I'm having the same issue. None of my blog category menu links work, just get a 404.

If enabling SFE on your Joomla! 1.5.x installation causes "404 - Component not found" errors and your installation is not in the root of your domain, try this:

--> In YourDomain.com/YourFolderName edit htaccess.txt as follows:
------> uncoment RewriteBase
------> append YourFolderName right after the /. The complete line should read:
RewriteBase /YourFolderName
--> save your changes!
--> Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess

Hope this helps! (It worked for me )

You explain really well and I followed this because my domain is not in the root folder, and am expecting this instruction can help to solve the 404 problem, but it is still not working.

I also have this problem. I have two site in one space, when i enable the sef , the 404 error appear.

GT-FOUR is right, when i change the 'live_site' value in configuration.php, then the sef is work. but the 'live_site' value must set the full url of your joomla site,
such as: $live_site = 'http://www.expamplesite.com/hp', not only the host name.

I think change the htaccess file will also can work, but http server can't use mod_rewrite in my space, so can't try it.

I tried to solve this problem about 24 hours!! and finaly i got that. here it is:

the problem is we are installing joomla in a sub directory ( not in root)

so solution is:

1- just make mod_rewrite > SEO Settings all YES in global conifguration . ( specialy first two radio buttun)


2- open .htaccess file in joomla folder and make sure your is ' RewriteEngine On '
3- if u have .htaccess in your root make it also ' RewriteEngine On '

4 and find 'RewriteBase' and uncomment that line (which means remove # from that line). and write your sub folder name ( for example my line look like this:
RewriteBase /jnews

(jnews is my folder name in which joomla is installed)

hope this will work for u . by the way iam on networksolutions sever.

I'm also having this problem. I changed htacccess.txt to .htaccess and the file
was all in one line. I had to have my host to correct it.

also the 404 component not found error comes up on everything but the administration panel.

I've tried toggeling the sef and apache, tried turning everything off then back on one thing at a time and all at once.

Nothing makes any difference.

I've also emptied the cache and purged it.
No change.

The only thing I've added recently is allvideos by joomlaworks

I have similar issue although not exactly like that. I mean It works ok, but not always.

my joomla is 1.5.12 php v 4 n 5 (automatic).

I have module that points to an article (uncategorized) which I always use to fill my entire vacant page which is triggered by a flash menu. When clicking a menu (it's a separator type menu) for a submenu, it will display news articles residing on the first half of the page. My focus is on the bottom half of the page which is another artcle displaying flash menu and socialBookmark badge. These two sometimes appear and sometimes don't. I've been figuring this out for weeks, and couldn't solve it

Btw, I turn my Joomla core SEF on with all SEO set to YES's

am i missing something ?
(i use standard .htaccess as mentioned on manual, and had no problem before applying news article mentioned above).

any help is welcome and thank in advance




regrds,
bascovon

I also installed 1.5.2 in a subfolder to the root (mysite.com/joomla). Can somebody tell me where I might find configuration.php? I've looked all over my via my FTP client and can't find it.

For me, I found it in the subfolder that I installed Joomla in.


Thank you everyone for the help.

I think that I might have finally managed to get it working by updating the url in htaccess and also found that turning off "Use Apache mod_rewrite" made it work - so far at least.

Best wishes,

Philip.

http://www.onlineenglishteacher.com

I had installed joomla in a subdirectory (/joomla) and not the root. I decided to try turning on the SEF links features but encountered 404's and such. Long story short is Issay's advice (a couple posts up) fixed the issue for me. I modded the .htaccess file in both the root and subdirectory as directed and it works now with all three SEF radio buttons "on". Thanks for the advice.

ps- I went to do the same on a second site which had joomla in a subdirectory and to my surprise had issues. I found the root had no .htaccess file so I merely copied the modified version from the joomla subdirectory to the root and it fixed the issues. So, in brief, two sites, now working with sef by following the steps outlined by issay.

I got it working after following the steps outlined by issay and chenem2000. Thanks for the help!