[resolved] Seo problem

I have problems with friendly URLs. When i rename ht.access to .htaccess i receive an 500 error. Modx is installed in public_html . Any ideas ? I have mod rewrite because it worked with other cms-s

Comment out all other lines in .htaccess but RewriteEngine, RewriteCond and RewriteRule lines.. I.E. put # before the php_flag, php_value... etc. lines. Also if your MODx install is in a subdirectory, you have to put RewriteBase to point to that directory, like: RewriteBase /modx

Thanks for the response doze it worked. The install isn’t in a subdirectory. Maybe this comment should be added to the .htaccess so other people can read it .

I can’t get this search engine friendly url feature to work. I think I’ve tried everything to no avail. I’m running modx on a windows2003 test server using apache2.? with mysql and php5 installed. I’ve spent the better part of today trying to get it to work and about about to pull my hair out! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Have you tried using mod rewrite in other application using the same server and it works?

Try this code, put it on a new .htaccess


Put the file on a new folder on your root dir. Add test.txt file and test.jpg file in that folder.

Try accessing both files using your web browser. If your server support htaccess, it should allow the jpg file to be accessed, but not the txt file.
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Anyway, there might be a better way to check this kind of thing, but I have no experience in it. So hopefully this will help out.

So it looks like the mod_rewrite is not loaded properly. I have no knowledge of apache really so if you could explain how to load this module that might solve this issue. All I did was un-comment the loadModule line and restart apache

Here’s an image of the httpd.config:

Quote from: Djamoer at Mar 23, 2006, 03:27 AM

Have you tried using mod rewrite in other application using the same server and it works?

Try this code, put it on a new .htaccess

# It will prevent directory listing or file access using http
Order deny,allow
Deny from all

#File types for which we make an exception.
<Files ~ "\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Files>

Put the file on a new folder on your root dir. Add test.txt file and test.jpg file in that folder.

Try accessing both files using your web browser. If your server support htaccess, it should allow the jpg file to be accessed, but not the txt file.
Report back to us.

Anyway, there might be a better way to check this kind of thing, but I have no experience in it. So hopefully this will help out.

Hi, I have tried this and It works, but I still receive a 500 error and I can’t find a solution...