Friendly URL & .htaccess file

[YellowKitchup]

Hi, I'm currently using 1.6.1.7. I cannot get friendly URL to work. Did look around and found this:

1. remove .htaccess file
2. disable friendly URL
3. enble friendly URL

suppose to fix the issue. but my problem is as soon as i remove .htacess, my own site is gone. It's blank until I put the old .htacess file back. So how do this people disable/enable anything in the backend when the site doesn't even appear? Am I doing something wrong?

 

I've confirmed with Bluehost that the server fully support friendly URLs.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[NemoPS]

You should still be able to access the back office, even if the front spawns 404, are you sure you have the correct url for it?

[crixus5678]

I hope this thread is not dead. I have the exact same problem. When i delete the htaccess, my back end office will encounter the internal error.

[YellowKitchup]

I hope this thread is not dead. I have the exact same problem. When i delete the htaccess, my back end office will encounter the internal error.

Hey I still have the same issue. But I did find out why my friendly URL doesn't work. The clean URL module that I'm using requires a category ID in the URL. So instead of going:

abc.com/jackets, I have to do abc.com/12-jackets (where 12 is the cat ID for jackets). Not sure if that's your problem too.

You should still be able to access the back office, even if the front spawns 404, are you sure you have the correct url for it?

NemoPS, yes I'm sure. Basically, I will open an admin page, go delete the .htaccess file AND refresh the existing page. Then it will become a blank page.

[crixus5678]

Thanks for the reply. may i know how do i add in the category id ? and at which part ?

[YellowKitchup]

Thanks for the reply. may i know how do i add in the category id ? and at which part ?

Crixus, the category id is auto generated. So if you go to your categories, you will see the ID. Also within the category page, there is a field for friendly URL, you will have to put something there. So for category jackets, find the category ID (e.g. 12), then you can put "jackets" in the friendly URL field, save. After that, try the URL: abc.com/12-jackets and see if that works.

[crixus5678]

For my case, it was showing a ? all the while until i specifically uploaded an image file to the specific directory according to the image link (http://mydailysc.com/73-home_default/dna-egf-serum.jpg) then the image shows now. I guess there's something wrong with the path or something like you said

[El Patron]

do NOT use URL cleaners, stay with native friendly URL.  my two cents (and lots of experience)

[crixus5678]

I'm using the prestashop friendly url but unfortunately other than creating a folder to fit the friendly url image source, I do not have any other solution for that. I have been trying for days to solve the issue but still not able to get it work. 

[NemoPS]

Or you can just use ThirtyBees, it natively has a clean rewriting system, and also supports redirection from any previous url thanks to the url history

[El Patron]

Or you can just use ThirtyBees, it natively has a clean rewriting system, and also supports redirection from any previous url thanks to the url history

 

redirect from previous history is pretty nice feature.  What a mess handling links are/can be.  Hope you enjoying Japan.

[NemoPS]

Thanks, it's actually pretty neat, you only have trouble if any new link is exactly the same of the previous, but it handles identical rewrites for products too as it considers the whole path (for any entity actually, no problem at all)