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Hello

I'm trying to follow the new instructions for getting pretty URLs:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Installation/Optional_Settings

I made changes to the config.php file as instructed.  And uploaded the sample .htaccess file which reads:
# To deny PHPs
                                                                             
 order deny,allow                                                                                                            
 deny from all                                                                                                              


All that happened was I got a 404 error message (Do not have permission to access this page).  I'm sorry, I know it's suddenly in the 'requirements' but I don't understand what I'm trying to do here. And I don't understand the instructions given for how to debug either.

Can anyone help? Is there no simple way to do this anymore?

Thanks
Jo

Hi Jocando

The sample .htaccess file is placed in the /doc/ folder of the cmsms setup.
It's called htaccess.txt
Copy it into the root of the site and rename it to .htaccess

Grtz. Rolf

Yippee, it works!

I didn't see the text file - there was a very obvious .htaccess file so I thought that was it.  No wonder it didn't make sense!  Now I see the correct file I can see what it's doing.

Many thanks
Joanna

Everybody can contribute to the wiki with his/her forum account to improve my "Make a .htaccess rewriting ruleset from the provided sample /doc/htaccess.txt" wording

Pierre M.

Many thanks.  I didn't know that. I will certainly try and help.
(As an ex English teacher, I should be able to!)

Pierre or anyone

Do you know or have a example ini i.e. IIS equivalent of .htaccess file as I am having to try and get this working on IIS6 as {REQUEST_URI} does not work on it. The sever is using IIRF v1.2.16 (Ionic's ISAPI Rewriting Filter).

@applejack : sorry, but other issue => other thread. I don't know IIS. Search the forum with Google for IIS.
I'm closing this thread.

Pierre M.