[solved] enable friendly url after shop setup doeas not work

[khinester]

hello,
i have just setup a site, but when i enable the friendly url and generate the .htaccess file i just get the 404 page.

looking at a category for example, the url is http://mysite.tdl/8-category but in the back office the friendly url is just 'category' why is the category-id added to the friendly url?

my .htaccess was generated correctly:

# .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$3.jpg [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ /img/c/$1$2.jpg [L,E]
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ /product.php?id_product=$3&isolang;=$1$5 [L,E]
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ /product.php?id_product=$2&isolang;=$1$4 [L,E]
RewriteRule ^lang-([a-z]{2})/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /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$4 [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.html(.*)$ /product.php?id_product=$1$3 [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /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

and i have applied the right permissions.

i use prestashop 1.2.5 and my apache has mod_rewrite loaded and working.

thanks

[khinester]

my .htaccess was ignored by apache as my settings were set to AllowOverride None
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride

changed this to

AllowOverride All

solved it.

[tomerg3]

The id is added to all friendly URLs to save a database lookup (converting the name to the id in order to load the correct page).

Can you post your actual URL so we can have a look?

Usually the only thing that prevents this from working is a bad htaccess file, do you have any server side directory redirection?

[paradate]

Thank you for posting the htaccess content
I copied it and pasted in mine and everything works perffectly.
My hosting company said It cannot be resolved.

God bless you