SEO links return 404 error

Business Marketing & SEO
1

Not sure whats goiong on here… but my server is catching all my SEO links are 404s andy non seo links in my site are fine.



example category link: [url]http://www.domain.com/shop/womenswear/dresses/[/url]



another: [url]http://www.domain.com/shop/catalog.html[/url]





any direction here would be very helpful??

2

OK, seems that turning off SEO makes the links ugly, but they work.

When I try to now turn it back on it fails and give and error that it had to be turn off.

If I uninstall SEO then reinstall it is active again, however the links don’t work



i’m running a 2.0.9 install

3

the error suggest I “Please check your webserver and URL manipulation engine settings.”



However I have mod-rewrite and it works fine for other sites on my server.

What needs to be done?

4

[quote name=‘RSW’]the error suggest I “Please check your webserver and URL manipulation engine settings.”



However I have mod-rewrite and it works fine for other sites on my server.

What needs to be done?[/quote]



is the htaccsess writable?

5

ca you provide your htaccsess source code and the url of your shop?

6

Well I found it…

making the .htaccess didn’t help… but going through the file I saw the comment :

Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented

Example:

Your store url is [url]http://www.yourcompany.com/store/cart[/url]

So “RewriteBase” should be:

RewriteBase /store/cart


so I ajusted the next line accordingly and reinstalled the addon.

Now it works!

one note I would make is that the comment above isn't very clear... reading this I would think that the comments need to be removed, rather than the Rewritebase path set with your directories after the root /