Help with .htaccess + seo url's

Hello everyone,

I've read all posts regarding seo urls but still I can't make it work. I have the following version: 1.4.9.3
and I have followed these steps:
1. set "seo urls" under server settings
2. changed from htaccess.txt to . htaccess
3. added seo keyword to product to test
4. urls appears but gives me 404 pages....

htaccess looks like:

# 1.To use URL Alias you need to be running apache with mod_rewrite enabled.

# 2. In your opencart directory rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess

# For any support issues please visit: http://www.opencart.com

Options +FollowSymlinks

# Prevent Directoy listing
Options -Indexes

# Prevent Direct Access to files
<FilesMatch "\.(tpl|ini)">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

# SEO URL Settings
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]


### Additional Settings that may need to be enabled for some servers
### Uncomment the commands by removing the # sign in front of it.
### If you get an "Internal Server Error 500" after enabling, then restore the # as this means your host doesn't allow that.

# 1. If your cart only allows you to add one item at a time, it is possible register_globals is on. This may work to disable it:
# php_flag register_globals off


pleeease help me

im a woman in need

Is your shop in a subfolder by chance? If so you need to update RewriteBase to include it. So would have

Hi,
thanks for the reply. no, the shop is on the index page (no sub folder).
As soon as I set the .htaccess the entire site crashes. Should that file include all that text written above?
And should it be in the root folder?

littleme wrote:As soon as I set the .htaccess the entire site crashes.

No pages load at all? Not even non-SEO?

Should that file include all that text written above?
And should it be in the root folder?

Yes to both.

you said you gave the product a seo url, did you give the category its in, a seo keyword also? i didnt see you mention that step.

I was having the same problem, I read somewhere about 'commenting out' some lines in the .htaccess but couldn't find anywhere which ones these might be.

Well I dont know whether this affects other things on the site but I commented out the lines

#Options -Indexes

#Options +FollowSymlinks

with a preceeding # and it works.

Hopefully someone with more technical experience could explain whether this is a bad idea.

Good luck

Evan

I am no expert, but I have used an extension called SEO generator, which is free. I t has helped me out often.

rph wrote:Is your shop in a subfolder by chance? If so you need to update RewriteBase to include it. So

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mystore.com/shop

would have

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RewriteBase /shop

Thanks for this.....my site now working fine with seo via htaccess...

regards
arvind