SEO URL rewrite not working

None of the baseline SEO URL rewriting is working within opencart.

I have tested everything I can think of with no results.

.htaccess exists and has the default settings. I've also tested with the minimal config.

I have verified mod_rewrite works by inserting the following at the beginning of .htaccess and it does route me over to google. (when uncommented) I have enabled SEO URL in the admin area.

I have added SEO Keywords for several products, categories and info pages for testing.

All links still use the default paths instead of the friendly URLs.
If I generate a product feed, and test one of the friendly URLs, then the browser just goes to the homepage, displaying the entire friendly URL.

For example, for the info page about us, I have added the SEO keyword "About-Us". If I browse to http://www.xxxxxx.com/About-Us it displays the homepage. Within the site, the about us link still shows http://www.xxxxxxx.com/index.php?route= ... ation_id=4.

Any ideas what I may have missed?

I did test by removing all VQMODs with same result. Also uninstalled/disabled all added modules with the same result.

I've spent a few days on this and about to bang my head against the wall....

This is OpenCart version 1.5.6.

Thanks,
Lee

I am having the same problem with my OpenCart v1.5.6 and am very frustrated.

are you on linux with apache? it won't work if you're not using apache

That is a good question. I am on a standard host with BlueHost and they confirmed that Apache re-write mod was active, which is supposedly required for the SEO URL's to work.

Put a # before +FollowSymLinks

DL

Where do I place this #FollowSymLinks? In the .haccess file?

lilpantherpaw wrote:Where do I place this #FollowSymLinks? In the .haccess file?

You should already have +FollowSymLinks there so just put a # before it.

DL

I have a similar problem, when I hover over an seo link, the proper page address is shown, but when I click the link the page is not found. It appears that the mapping of the seo to the correct page is not being done.

OpenCart version 1.5.6, seo is enabled within the admin.
I am running the Apache 2 server on a local host for development, testing.
The apache2 mod_rewrite is enabled.
I have done only 1 modification to the provided .htaccess file, which was to change the "RewriteBase" from "/" to "opencart_store/" , which is the folder for the OpenCart Store.
e.g. is the address of the default home page.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

The solution to my problem was to set "AllowOveride FileInfo" in the <Directory /> section of the definition of the Virtual Host of my enabled sites. Apache recommends putting the .htaccess info in a <Directory /> section in here if you have access to it.

The following is the relevant content of the .htaccess file: