OMG friendly URLs destroyed all my links

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OMG friendly URLs destroyed all my links

Post by agustin » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:27 am

I renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess but it told me that the file already existed

so I renamed htaccess to .htaccess.

After saving that my htacces disapeared from my cpanel

Then I turned on Apache mod_rewrite & friendly URLs

My URLs are friendly but not a single link on my site works!!

I how no idea on how to solve this, I read some posts but nothing seems to work without the htaccess file.

Please, help! :(

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Re: OMG friendly URLs destroyed all my links

Post by TemplateToaster » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:29 pm

I didn't try it personally but I think .htaccess. don't work and you need to have .htaccess

remove the last dot, you can check whether an .htaccess already exists there.
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Re: OMG friendly URLs destroyed all my links

Post by agustin » Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:30 pm

template toaster wrote:I didn't try it personally but I think .htaccess. don't work and you need to have .htaccess

remove the last dot, you can check whether an .htaccess already exists there.
Yes but when I typed the last dot .htaccess disappeared, is not in my public_html

I how no idea how to put it back on.

Friendly URL don't work for many many people, this is a huge joombla bug that I didnt know.

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Re: OMG friendly URLs destroyed all my links

Post by agustin » Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:59 am

Solved.

I could find the file in my FTP, for some reason it did not show up in my cpanel.


BTW, it is funny how you can fix a problem and then make 2 new problems, and that's how joombla works, I guess I have to get used to going 2 steps foward and one step back.

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Re: OMG friendly URLs destroyed all my links

Post by sunter » Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:37 pm

if you are using cpanel

please check the box for show hidden files

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Re: OMG friendly URLs destroyed all my links

Post by albaniax » Wed May 02, 2012 7:43 pm

.htaccess? You're on IIS aren't you?
On IIS you need "URL Rewriter" and web.config, instead of .htaccess


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