URL disaster

[DADOCTOR]

Hello,

Please help me I have tried to have a go at setting pretty URL's and have caused a major problem with opening front end and backend of my site

I opened config.php

and this is the section that I edited

#------------
#URL Settings
#------------

#What type of URL rewriting should we be using for pretty URLs? Valid options are:
#'none', 'internal', and 'mod_rewrite'. 'internal' will not work with IIS some CGI
#configurations. 'mod_rewrite' requires proper apache configuration, a valid
#.htaccess file and most likely {metadata} in your page templates. For more
#information, see:
#http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ty_URL.27s
$config['url_rewriting'] = ''

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '';

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable? (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

I added this

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$config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite'; // this is new from 1.6
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true; // this will be the standard from 1.7
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

What should have been default written

after

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$config['url_rewriting'] = '

between the '.....' ?

I cant open anything please help
yes I am a noob

[mccord42]

Here is what is in the config.php file by default

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#------------
#URL Settings
#------------

#What type of URL rewriting should we be using for pretty URLs?  Valid options are:
#'none', 'internal', and 'mod_rewrite'.  'internal' will not work with IIS some CGI
#configurations. 'mod_rewrite' requires proper apache configuration, a valid
#.htaccess file and most likely {metadata} in your page templates.  For more
#information, see:
#http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/FAQ/Installation/Pretty_URLs#Pretty_URL.27s
$config['url_rewriting'] = 'none';

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '';

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

I would suggest removing everything between

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#------------
#URL Settings
#------------

and

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#--------------
#Image Settings
#--------------

and then replacing it with the default code.

Did you just add those lines you listed to the config.php? Or did you replace the existing lines in the file? You should just edit the lines in the file. Any line WITHOUT a # at the beginning is an actual line of code that will be read and used by cmsms. If you just added those lines and kept the others as well, that would cause issues.

[DADOCTOR]

Thanks mccord42,

I have fixed the problem,

But I still want to implement the a URL processed with mod_rewrite to look like this.

http://yourdomainname.com/cmsms/parent_item/child_item

I have had a look at the user handbook and this page and still am in the shit

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ty_URL.27s

I have already added most of the content to my site and I am not sure if this is a problem, as- should I have originally set this up before adding pages/content ?

The other thing is that I am adding cmsms to link together an existing site that has a forum and a blog

My website url is - crimecasefiles.com

this url is set to redirect to my forum - crimecasefiles.com/forum

When I have finished working on my cmsms content I want it to use crimecasefiles.com (for my home page)

So when I added cmsms I use http://www.crimecasefiles.com/index.php? so that I could work on my site but not really have it open to public.

In my .htaccess file I have this in it for the other areas of my website.

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RewriteEngine on
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 87.250.254.24
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^crimecasefiles.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.crimecasefiles.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.crimecasefiles\.com\/forum" [R=301,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

can I add to this under existing content ?

and is this what I add ?

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
 
# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L,NE]
 
# 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
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA,NE]

Then the last thing I need to do is edit config.php

This is how it looks now

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#http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/FAQ/Installation/Pretty_URLs#Pretty_URL.27s
$config['url_rewriting'] = 'none';

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '';

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

do I change

$config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';

$config['page_extension'] = '/';



Do I need
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

Thanks, I'm almost there ( I think)
there seems to be a few different examples of how to do this but they are different.

[DADOCTOR]

Even if someone can answer one of my questions
it would be a great help

Thanks

[uniqu3]

It should work if you add in your .htaccess

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA,NE]

And your config.php

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$config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';
$config['page_extension'] = '';

[DADOCTOR]

Thanks uniqu3,

Should I leave this as it is

$config['query_var'] = 'page';

?

and leave this

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$config['page_extension'] = '';

just like this

[uniqu3]

yes you can leave query as is, for page_extension enter what extnesion you want to have .html, .php or leave empty for none.