(RESOLVED)Friendly URL

[hippooflove]

(RESOLVED)Please can somebody explain to me how exactly to change my product title to make it friendly. I have put the following example to show what I mean.

http://www.realfans.org.uk/category.php?id_category=42&p=2

Now I would like it to read something like:

http://www.realfans.org.uk/twenty20international

Is that possible and how do I do it please.

barry

[alpaca]

In the backend (Back Office) click on the Preferences tab and scroll down to "Friendly URLS". If that what you are looking for?

[hippooflove]

Thanks for that

I am really unsure what to do with the generator. I do not understand at all what I need to do with that.

Htaccess file generation
Warning: this tool can ONLY be used if you are hosted by an Apache web server. Please ask your webhost.

This tool will automatically generate a ".htaccess" file that will grant you the possibility to do URL rewriting and to catch 404 errors.

If you do not have the "Friendly URL" enabled when generating the ".htaccess" file, such feature won't be available.

Before being able to use this tool, you need to:

- create a .htaccess blank file in dir: /
- give it write permissions (chmod 777 on Unix system)

Please can you explain exactly what I need to do?

[mooshi]

Hi!

Open up your notepad and save the text file as htaccess.txt, then ftp the file into the root of your prestashop site and then rename it .htaccess

Now go back to your BO and refresh, making sure you have the correct permission to make it writable....now you hit the generate button and it will generate it for you.

[mooshi]

If you want to remove the cat ID then there is more info here from Damien

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/12632/installing_prestashop/help_remove_category_id_from_url

[hippooflove]

:red:

sorry but being a bit dim here. What text file?

Barry

[mooshi]

No problem Barry....on your computer right click -> new-> text document save as htaccess (no dot infront of htaccess)

I've attached one for you ...no just ftp to your prestashop root folders and rename it to .htaccess

htaccess.txt

[hippooflove]

okay so far. do you mean upload the file into my file manager. what is the "root" please

[mooshi]

yes if you are using cpanel...the root is your main site


rename it then change your file permissions to either 0755 or 777 depending on your host

[hippooflove]

do i need to put it into any particular folder

[mooshi]

no...no folder that is what I mean by the root...where your main structure is eg: 404.php, address.php etc

If you shop is in folder shop then put in shop, if it's not in a sub folder then put it in there

[hippooflove]

think I got that.

then where do you change permissions

thanks for your help

its much appreciated.

Barry

[mooshi]

your welcome!

on the right of cpanel window of the file you just uploaded, you will see numbers. Click that and a box will open to change the permissions, as I suggested in the above post. It has to be writable to generate

[hippooflove]

I already have .htaccess files.

do I leave the .txt extension on when i rename it. and how do I ensure it is writable.

barry

[mooshi]

no take the .txt off and place the dot in front of the h .....it will just overwrite the other.

In your prestashop back office it will tell/show you if the correct permissions are set , this depends on your host 755 or 777, just refresh your page

[hippooflove]

done that now getting the following:

Not Found
The requested URL /42-cricket was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.realfans.org.uk Port 80

[mooshi]

Barry just sent you email