SEO Urls

Hi there,

Im trying to get SEO urls to work with my site. When i change the name of .htaccess.txt to .htaccess and turn on the setting in the admin panel the site crashes with the following error:

500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@petcarriersdirect.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Here is the server error log:

[Tue Dec 1 19:08:36 2009] [alert] [client 94.194.123.190] /home/fhlinux130/p/petcarriersdirect.co.uk/user/htdocs/.htaccess: Options not allowed here
[Tue Dec 1 19:08:42 2009] [alert] [client 94.194.123.190] /home/fhlinux130/p/petcarriersdirect.co.uk/user/htdocs/.htaccess: Options not allowed here

I've been playing with this for a while now with no success, any help would be appreciated .

Thanks Craig

Is your site hosted with Fasthosts by any chance?

Nope

djcraig49 wrote:
[Tue Dec 1 19:08:36 2009] [alert] [client 94.194.123.190] /home/fhlinux130/p/petcarriersdirect.co.uk/user/htdocs/.htaccess: Options not allowed here
[Tue Dec 1 19:08:42 2009] [alert] [client 94.194.123.190] /home/fhlinux130/p/petcarriersdirect.co.uk/user/htdocs/.htaccess: Options not allowed here

That pretty much tells you the error.
"Options" not allowed here.

In your htaccess file there is "Options +follow symlinks" or something right? Remove that line and try again

Thank you very much Qphoria, i had the same problem (one afternoon of time before your solution) and now it seems to work.
I still have 2 question:
1) After i commented the line "Options +follow symlinks", will my urls have problems? What is the role of this command?
2) (maybe connected to question 1)
The category pages in my shop have right URLs, like:

http://www.gioielleriatimmi.it/Oro
http://www.gioielleriatimmi.it/acciaio

but, for example, "contacts" page has this URL:

http://www.gioielleriatimmi.it/index.ph ... on/contact

and a product has this URL:

http://www.gioielleriatimmi.it/argento/ ... duct_id=42

is it normal? I don't like it!
thanks in advance,
Alex

I'm sorry, forget question 2, i solved!!
I had to put a unique URL SEO in each product and in each category of my shop...
now i have for example:

http://www.gioielleriatimmi.it/Oro/anel ... ello-prova



So, i still ask: what's the meaning of "Options +follow symlinks"?

Thanks!