Prestashop 1.5.4 seo urls 404 error - mod_rewrite enabled

[Lakshmanan PHP]

I am getting 404 error on activating seo urls

 

But no error in local host

 

Mod rewrite enabled on server.

 

Host : Digital Ocean

version : 1.5.4

Server : Linux

 

 

 

There is no significant entries regarding this error in error log

 

Because of this I cant use web service

[NemoPS]

The only thing I can think about is mod_rewrite is somehow broken on the hosting. Have you tried getting in touch with the company?

[kalakrima]

Hi I just figured that I have 404 errors when mod_rewrite enabled. The domain name is www.mydomain.com, prestashop is installed in a subfolder called /shop/

 

Without URL rewriting If I access with or without www to my shop, it redirects me automaticly to http and everything works, but when the rewrite mode is enabled and If I follow a link with www.mywebsite.com/shop/fr/cat/262-product.html it redirects me to 404 : www.mywebsite.com/shop/fr/shop/category?controller=404, but if I disable the URL rewriting, then everything is fine. Do you know how can I fix this issue?

Edited March 5, 2014 by kalakrima (see edit history)

[Lakshmanan PHP]

@kalakrima exactly the same issue.

 

SEO urls working if the shop is in root folder

 

Inside a sub folder /shop/store-name/ its not working - 404 errors occurred.

 

Any solution for this issue?

[kalakrima]

@Lakshmanan PHP : yes weird issue. but I'm very surprised to see that the team didn't answer, because there many people with this problem.

 

So :

Firstly, I edited my DNS zone, in that way to point my site with or without www to the same IP address. (Type A)

After 24 hours, when It was done, I saw that in my BO (when I check the permissions for employees) I have broken links to modules, (I don't know if it is in relation, but who knows). They was installed in my database, but not present in the folder. So I go to my phpmyadmin, and I look in ps_module, ps_module_group etc to find the modules and delete them. (If you have something like this, remember to mark the ID of the module in the table ps_module, because in the other tables, there will be only the ID )

 

I cleaned my cache/smarty/compile and cache/smarty/cache from the FTP. I cleaned browser cache, delete history and cookies. I restarted my browser. Then I disabled Friendly URL's. Wrote in the domain field => www.mydomain.com Path to the folder => /shop/  (basic)

I checked if it works. Everything worked fine with or without www (if I go to mydomain.com/shop/ It redirects me to www.mydomain.com/shop)

Then I enabled Friendly URL's and everything worked fine : shopping cart, authentification, registration.

In the root folder I placed new .htaccess with a redirection from mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com Because all my links from google are with www.

 

So now, I can use www.mydomain.com but if I follow a link like : http://mydomain.com/shop/category/product.html => I'm redirected to :

www.mydomain.com/shop/category/product.html?controller=404

It finds the good URL but it not converting to this url.

For me it's not a problem because all my links are with www I don't have links without www. But for the SEO it's a problem. You need to choose a favorite domain in Google Webmaster Tools. I choose www.mydomain.com instead of http://mydomain.com

 

I've submitted a bug tracker issue, but the PrestaShop Team told me that this is not a bug but only a misconfiguration. They didn't answer even when I contacted the support. I (and my developers) declare that is definitely a bug with the htaccess and the dispatcher. Older versions of PrestaShop worked fine with or without www, there was a match between the http url's and www url's now it's just not happen.

 

Hope this will help you a little. If you find a solution to have a match between http and www url's I'll be glad to hear it