Freindly URLs not working - 404 Errors - HELP !!!!

[Cloud]

i am creating my site on my local machine using WAMP.

I cant get freindly URLs to work. When it is on, i get 404 Page cannot be displayed errors when clicking on any product or category on my page.

Any ideas why or how i can solve this?

I have the apache module rewrite enabled, allow url fopen is enabled and so is allow url include.

I renamed htaccess.txt to htaccess.htaccess. Is this right?

I dont know when else i can do or why else it wouldnt be working

[jtyana]

i am creating my site on my local machine using WAMP.
I renamed htaccess.txt to htaccess.htaccess. Is this right?

In a linux environment, the htaccess file is renamed to .htaccess (dot htaccess)
But windows (XP anyway) won't allow you to rename the file to .htaccess

If no one else comes to help you, try uploading the file to your linux webspace, rename it thereto .htaccess and FTP is back
I don't know if this will work but if no one else comes to help, it's worth a try.
If you're on a windows server then I don't know.

[Damien Metzger]

On windows:

- launch a terminal (win-r then "cmd" in the prompt),

- browse to the htaccess file folder ("cd" to browse, "dir" to display the files),

- rename the file ("rename htaccess.txt .htaccess").

[Cloud]

Thanks for that. Managed to get it working

Just one more thing.

The URL displays with the category ID followed by the URL

eg 5-URL

Is there anyway to get rid of the 5-?