Friendly URL and 404 errors

[shaz]

Hi

I have version 1.3.7.0 and I turned on friendly URL’s, generated the .htaccess file and now seem to have problems with 404 errors in stats and on homepage & one of them being favicon. I have checked my folder /img / favicon.ico and the file is there but it appears weird? see below:

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I would really appreciate some help on this as uptil I generated the friendly URL and .htaccess file my site was running great. It now spits out loads of 404’s, duplicate content (I have just generated a robots.txt file to try and stop getting loads of irrelevant stuff indexed) and I assume that all of my old content from my old site that is indexed will eventaully drop off google or follow the 404 redirect.

I have no experience in this sort of thing so would really appreciate some help on this. I have turned of the firndly URL's for now and my .htaccess file looks like this:

# .htaccess automaticaly generated by PrestaShop e-commerce open-source solution
# http://www.prestashop.com - http://www.prestashop.com/forums

# URL rewriting module activation
RewriteEngine on

# URL rewriting rules
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)\-([a-z0-9]+)(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2$3.jpg [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([0-9]+)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2.jpg [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ /img/c/$1$2.jpg [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ /product.php?id_product=$3&isolang;=$1$5 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ /product.php?id_product=$2&isolang;=$1$4 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /category.php?id_category=$2&isolang;=$1 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ /product.php?id_product=$2$4 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ /product.php?id_product=$1$3 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /category.php?id_category=$1 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^content/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /cms.php?id_cms=$1 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)__([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /supplier.php?id_supplier=$1$3 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)_([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /manufacturer.php?id_manufacturer=$1$3 [QSA,L,E]
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/(.*)$ /$2?isolang=$1 [QSA,L,E]

# Catch 404 errors
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php



Thanks in advance,would really appreciate some assistance.

[shaz]

Anybody got any advice?

[mrsmith25]

I am googling and search like crazy. None of the fixes i have found work yet for me either. I am a hostgator customer, found a thread talking about how they had to use a specific .htaccess for godaddy, but it didnt work for me.

[newenglanddog]

Did anyone find a solution to this issue? I have installed PrestaShop on my GoDaddy hosted website and I also cannot get Friendly URLs to work either.