Newbie looking for help with pretty urls

[Josie]

Hi, this is my first install of CMSMS and everything has gone very smoothly up until I tried to create pretty urls. I've followed all the User Handbook directions for using mod rewrite for pretty urls, but when I go back and view my site, the links on my homepage have been updated to pretty urls (domain.com/parent/child.html), but if you click on any of the links you get a 404. I wasn't getting any 404's before I attempted the pretty urls.

Here's what I have in config.php:
$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;

I also copied the .htaccess file that was in the docs directory to the root level, and made sure my FTP settings were set as encoding: ASCII as specified in the User Handbook.

I looked for info from my host on mod rewrites b/c I thought maybe it has something to do with my server config, but it says this:
"Mod_rewrite is an Apache web server module installed on all of our Linux severs by default; it does not have to be installed or enabled. Our Linux hosting accounts support most mod_rewrite functionality.

You do not need to enable mod_rewrite in your httpd.conf, as this is handled at a global level. All you need to do is add the desired code to the body of your .htaccess file."

So since I'm a newbie at this, I'm kind of lost in terms of troubleshooting. Does anyone have any advice?

Linux/MySQL 4.1 if that helps.

Thanks for any advice.

[Nullig]

Can you post your .htaccess file?
Have you cleared the cache in Admin?

Nullig

[Josie]

my .htacess is the defaul one that was in the docs directory, it looks like this:

#php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
#php_flag register_globals Off
#php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off

# Make sure you have Options FollowSymLinks
# and Allow on
RewriteEngine On

#Rewrites page.shtml as index.php?page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

I went to my Admin Global settings and cleared cache, is that correct or is there another way to do it?

[Nullig]

I think it should be:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+).html$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA] 

Nullig

[Josie]

hmmm...that didn't work either.    any other suggestions?

[Nullig]

Is your installation in a subdirectory?
Can you post a link to the site?

Nullig

[Josie]

Installation is not in a subdirectory, here's the site: http://dogsassy.com/

You'll see when you roll over the links that the nice urls appear but all the links are broken. If I go back to config.php and set these values:

$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = false;
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;
$config['use_hierarchy'] = false;

then the installation works fine and all the links work again.

thanks again.

[Nullig]

Can you post your full .htaccess file, as it is now?

Nullig

[Josie]

Sure, this is it:

#php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
#php_flag register_globals Off
#php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+).html$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

[Nullig]

Do you have the {metadata} tag in your template?
Are the paths correct in your config.php?

Nullig

[Josie]

yes, {metadata} is in the template, I'm still using the default template that came with the CMSMS install (1.2.3 "Black Rock").

i think the paths are correct in config.php, do you have an example of what they should look like?

does something like this look right?

#Path to document root. This should be the directory this file is in.
#e.g. /var/www/localhost
$config['root_path'] = '/home/content/e/s/t/adminname/html'

[Josie]

I just tried enabling internal pretty urls, instead of using mod rewrite, to see what would happen. So I updated config.php to:

$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = false;
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = true;
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;

I cleared the admin cache again, and I haven't touched .htaccess since the last update.

With internal pretty urls enabled, I get the following error message when I click on any of my menu links:

"No input file specified."

Does that help identify the problem at all?

[Nullig]

I think you should check with your hosting company, to make sure that the .htaccess is being seen/implemented properly.

Nullig