Comments for How to turn on SEF URL's at http://www.howtojoomla.net , comment 1 to 31 out of 20 comments http://www.howtojoomla.net Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:20:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-979 i ve been looking for this like crazy,,, thanks cory... also not only in this blog but also in many, many others i have read and hear a lot of problems with goDaddy servers... well, you get what you paid for, goDaddy is one of the worst servers in the world, and people are just so stupid an continues buying this horrible servers!!! - Alejandro Orduz Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:54:10 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-959 I had the same problem enabling in goDaddy, even when I renamed the htaccess.txt file the SEF urls caused 404 errors. I actually gave up for a day and upon my return the next day I read up and found that GoDaddy does use Apache if you are on Linux hosting and also the mod_rewrite is already enabled. So I tried re-enabling everything again in exactly the same way and it magically worked. The conclusion I came to is that GoDaddy must cache certain files, so you people with this problem fear not. Make the necessary changes and just wait 24 hours to see if it does kick in. - Ben Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:52:21 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-838 Apache ver. 2.2.8 (Unix) - john Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:41:02 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-837 Hi John...it could be a problem with your server. If you are not running Apache, SEF URL's might not work - Cory Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:20 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-836 followed instructions to the letter. renamed the .htaccess and enabled the switch in global config. After this all the links on the site get redirected to a page not found site. Basicly changes all athe links to SEF but also disables all completely. Can you help? - john Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:56:30 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-816 I know this is an old thread but I have the same issue with GoDaddy.com . Once I made the change to SEF none of the links seemed to work. I followed what the others said to do in this thread said to do and it worked. Joomla 1.5 Steps on Godaddy.com using Linux box: 1. Global Configuration 2. SEO Settings 3. Search Engine Friendly URLs > Yes 4. FTP'd to my sites Joomla folder and changed "htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" 5. Use Apache mod_rewrite > Yes 6. (Optional) Add suffix to URLs > Yes 7. Save 8. Wait 1-hour for the change to happen. Now all links workd and are search friendly. - Dave Lindberg Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:44:59 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-612 Hi I also have godaddy using joomla and I get the 404 error when changing the htaccess to .htaccess Im trying to post my htaccess file but it says my comment is to long, where can I send it to have it reviewed? thanks - jpastor Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:45:22 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-597 Hello Cory Your site has provided links to the info I required about SEF. Thanks. Have you looked into Artio yet(as on date). I am a freelancer researching on Joomla for my projects and developing offline for my site. Thanks again for the info. regards, Amitabh. - Amitabh Choudhury Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:39:48 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-594 I too had the 404 error syndrome. Certainly a pain to solve in my case as most forums never listed the cure. They suggested certain areas which I broke down. Some suggested to see if your php.ini file is correct but never found much relating to what i wanted to do in any of my php.ini files, so I eliminated those. This left me server but there are a number of potential problems here such as the httpd.conf file and the .htaccess file. I played with the .htaccess file until I found it mentioned that ARTIO JoomSEF creates its own .htaccess if not available. It is then supposed to work but in my case it never did. I changed and changed here but no luck. The problem had to be deeper. httpd.conf was the only part left. I found two things here. Firstly, I checked my mod_rewrite. All was good there. I then carried on down and found this "AllowOveride". It controls what directives may be placed in the .htaccess files. I changed "None" to "All". My problem was solved. - Grant Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:50:02 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-534 Thanks for the article. I'm using for joomla for a new project and didn't know where this option was. - jc Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:47:10 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-473 Adrian, It looks like your server might not support SEF URL's. Try going into the administrator and disabling SEF URL's in the configuration. - Cory Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:14:43 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-472 Hi, I created a test site to explore 1.012 ecommerce edition . in the process messed up my other site I two am from the old basic days . I just learn to you ftp. my installation when well . but i get the 404 error. how do i rename the url into something usable. For some reasonh everything i dl gives my the same result . nothing. what can i do to make me ecommerce site function properly. is there anyone i can call and talk to live. Thanks adrian - adrian Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:09:27 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-452 I note comments regarding the recommendation for Artio JoomSEF - I would suggest caution if you are planning to use this extension, versions later than V1.5 have advertising which may affect you sites. Try using the JoomSEF version available from http://www.kangainternet.com/ which does the same job. - Henk Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:57:17 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-380 anyone having problems with artio and ssl? All ssl urls get redirected back to my homepage. I've followed the directions very carefully and all works just fine until ssl enters the picture. - gmack Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:39:30 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-345 hi, Thanks for this cool web, about SEF i'm using SEF advance , it's realy good . - ased Mon, 21 May 2007 19:07:01 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-328 Maria? I think, what did you do to figure it out? I am using godaddy hosting and need mod_rewrite to work. Any help to a solution would be nice - Rod Fri, 11 May 2007 20:00:04 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-310 Yeah, I have finally figured it out! It was a realllllll ... pain, but it works now. thanks for checking! Maria - Hi Cory Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:05:28 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-288 Hi Maria, I just visited your site (www.salsainutah.com), and it looks like you have SEF URL's turned on. It looks like everything is working properly. Cory - Cory Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:07:53 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-287 Hi there, I am also struggling with the same issue... I have followed the steps on your and other websites. I am running Apache server, but I don't see mod_rewrite anywhere under System/ system info/ php info... I called my provider (godaddy.com) and they said that mod_rewrite is enabled automatically on the site. I have renamed the .htaccess file, but still nothing. Why do you think mod_rewrite doesn't show up under php info? Thank you :) - Maria Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:55:34 +0100 http://www.howtojoomla.net/content/view/43/10/#comment-251 You would need to use a 3rd party SEF extension to do that. I have listed some of the more popular ones in the article. Cory - Cory Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:11:51 +0100