[Solved] Problem with shortening URLs

protagonist

Okay, going over the how to post a question post:

I meet all the requirements on the server, my permissions are fine, my platform is ubuntu 10.04, it's a new clean install.

The vanilla files (there is no vanilla folder) is located at rhulac.org/forum, now originally even rhulac.org/forum didn't work. I instead had to go to rhulac.org/forum/index.php?p=/, now I've changed certain apache settings, so that I can now access the forums by going to rhulac.org/forum.

Now whenever I clicked any of the links it would take me to rhulac.org/forum/index.php?p=/discussions, I wanted to get rid of the index.php?p= so I went to config.php and changed:

$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;

to equal to TRUE.

Now I can still access my forums at rhulac.org/forum, when I click any of the links it takes me to say rhulac.org/forum/discussions (which is what I wanted) but the pages display an error and don't work.

So, err, what's wrong?

UnderDog

but the pages display an error and don't work.

Which error do the pages display? A 404 error or a BONK error? Or maybe another error? (like apache spits out).

protagonist

E.g. typing in "http://rhulac.org/forum/discussions" gives:

"Not Found
The requested URL /forum/discussions was not found on this server."

Whereas typing in "http://rhulac.org/forum/index.php?p=/discussions" shows a valid page.

UnderDog

Ok, that's a 404 error. Something is wrong when enabling the RewriteUrls config setting. Do you know if your server has mod_rewrite enabled?

protagonist

Well my .htaccess, has 'RewriteEngine On'.

This is how it looks like:

# Original
# If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified

RewriteEngine On
# Certain hosts may require the following line.
# If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /.
# (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: RewriteBase /forum)
RewriteBase /forum
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L]


Also the full server filepath for the forum is home//public_html/rhulac.org/public/forum

Is it possible that on the line where it says 'RewriteBase /forum' i'm doing something wrong?

Also do I have to do anything in httpd.conf in my apache folder? Though I think any .htaccess file overrides any previous httpd settings?

bobtheman

i have this same issue.
Hosting with godaddy
rewrite urls has never worked for me

protagonist

Odd, although I do not have GoDaddy hosting, my domain registrar is GoDaddy.

protagonist

Still experiencing the problem. I think no reply in the past two days warrants a bump?

bump.

ojjuan

I have the same problem. I set the config to TRUE and my .htaccess says RewriteEngine On. This is on a local development system.

protagonist

Ok obviously a lot of people are having the same problem. Help anyone?

protagonist

Again no reply for the past 4 days now..... ...

bump!

Linc

I bet you have AllowOverride set to 'none' for that folder. If that's the case, it needs to be set to 'all' for that directory in your Apache config.

lekwan

thanks for this thread

protagonist

Yep AllowOverride set to 'all' works! Thank you Lincoln!