Network Solutions mod_rewrite SEF URLs [SOLVED]

[rholzler]

After many days and numerous calls to Network Solutions, I was not able to get SEF URL's to load on my site. I got "503 Server Error" and "Connection Reset By Server" errors on all sub-pages. Their standard answers were:

1) This is a "latency issue." (Which they could not explain.)
2) Update your Joomla (it was the latest version)
3) Check your error logs, which would be available in 30 days (REALLY?! Yes, really.)
4) Optimize your database (didn't have any effect)
5) Pay us to customize your scripts (not happening!)

After much frustration, I finally stumbled upon this solution and I am happy to share it with you. At the bottom of the .htaccess file make the following changes

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#RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1

The first line, add the # to disable the Joomla! standard rewrite rule and add the second line which works for Network Solutions Unix hosting.

[eduardoescdel]

Hi, thanks for sharing this.

I must say that sometime ago i faced an issue similar to yours and i fixed it by changing that line of code too, but i did it just by adding a slash before index.php:

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RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

Became:

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RewriteRule .* /index.php [L]

[brianpeat]

Thank you for this! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why pages were failing and then not and then failing again.

adding that single / before index.php fixed it.

[robertclinton]

I found this posting in Network Solutions forum.

Changed this line in the HTACCESS

# RewriteBase /

to

RewriteBase /

This solved the issue for me.