Friendly URL Problem

[spinnyb]

Hi,

I have looked through the forums and tried every option i could find but i cant get friendly urls working for my site. I have it working fine on other sites but for http:// it wont work.

My .htaccess file is below:

# .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

I keep getting 404 errors for any friendly url. The images redirect ok however.

I see plenty of people have had this problem in the past but none of their solutions work for me. Can anyone help?
Thanks

[tomerg3]

Are you sure this a linux server (and not windows)?

[spinnyb]

yeah. zeus hosting. the htaccess is being read alright as when i remove all entries in it - the frontpage images disappear and i dont get a 404 error

[tomerg3]

That's odd, which host do you use?

[spinnyb]

register365. I am coming in to this project at the very end and was not involved in the initial setup. I looked at the log files but dont know enough about them to get any clues.see example below. some of the friendly urls were initially set up as single letters e.g. 'v' in the example below. but i have since changed these and no luck

109.79.74.62 - - [08/Sep/2010:20:13:10 +0100] "GET /404.php HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "-"
109.79.74.62 - - [08/Sep/2010:20:13:10 +0100] "GET /53-v HTTP/1.1" 404 8688 "httpdresses" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDR; InfoPath.1;)"
109.79.74.62 - - [08/Sep/2010:20:13:15 +0100] "POST /statistics.php HTTP/1.1" 200 200 "/53-v" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDR; InfoPath.1:)"
109.79.74.62 - - [08/Sep/2010:20:13:14 +0100] "GET /404.php HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "-"
109.79.74.62 - - [08/Sep/2010:20:13:14 +0100] "GET /60-jackets HTTP/1.1" 404 8688 "http://53-v" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDR; InfoPath.1; )"
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[tomerg3]

I have not come across this before, and this log doesn't shed any more light on the subject.

[spinnyb]

Any htaccess experts see whats going wrong?

[Pixelpie]

Anyone fix this? With Register365 on the Zeus server.

[spinnyb]

Only fix is move away from Zeus server.

I hosted my site on Blacknight and works perfectly.