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[dhooper]

I don't know... I had the htaccess file there before the contribution and everything worked fine, but when I added the seo code it quit.

What I'm running is wamp installed on my Windows 7 laptop.  I just checked... Apache 2.4.2 is being used.  Is there a specific module that needs to be on?

[dhooper]

I've been playing around with various settings and found that a dll file needed to be replaced.  I am now able to access some pages and the admin with the htacess in place; however, I am still getting a 404 errors for category, product, and information pages. Frustrating.

[Jack_mcs]

Be sure that you have mod rewrite enabled in the settings for wamp. You can look at the server info in admin->tools to see if it is on. You may also need to comment out this line

Options +FollowSymLinks

And if your shop is in a sub-directory, then you have to change the rewrite path to use it.

[dhooper]

Wow, there is a lot of information listed there!

Here are the enabled Apache mods (rewrite is near the bottom):

core mod_win32
mpm_winnt
http_core
mod_so
mod_access_compat
mod_actions
mod_alias
mod_allowmethods
mod_asis
mod_auth_basic
mod_authn_core
mod_authn_file
mod_authz_core
mod_authz_groupfile
mod_authz_host
mod_authz_user
mod_autoindex
mod_cgi
mod_dir
mod_env
mod_include
mod_isapi
mod_log_config
mod_mime
mod_negotiation
mod_rewrite
mod_setenvif
mod_php5

Is there another mod that should be enabled?  I started to enable them all, but got an error message stating that it wouldn't work with the wamp server.

When using the wamp server, I visit my store by pointing the browser to (this takes me to the front/index page): localhost/essential-oils-catalog/

So, in the htacess I have: RewriteBase /essential-oils-catalog/

When I comment out the line you suggested (# Options +FollowSymLinks), I still get 404 errors for categories, products, and information pages.

Edited by dhooper, 21 May 2013 - 10:16 PM.

[Jack_mcs]

It sounds like everything is setup correctly. To ensure mod rewrite is working, try this:

- Create a sub directory in the shop. The name doesn't matter but I'll use abc
- Create an .htaccess file with the following in it and place it in the new directory

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

Now visit that location localhost/essential-oils-catalog/abc

If you don't get any errors,mod rewrite is working.
If you do get an error, like an Internal Server Error, then mod rewrite is not workng correctly.

If it is working, then the problem is in your code or wamp setup. You said this was working on the live shop but I would still double check the files to be sure they are the same. Also turn off all settings in the SEO settings except for the enable one to be sure one of those isn't causing a problem. I'm assuming, of course, that if you turn off the enable setting the url's will work but you should test those too.

[dhooper]

I disabled all of the seo settings and now I can see my pages.  The urls do not work, but at least I can see my edits.  I'll just have to be sure to double check all of my links when I move it online, but this will work for now.  Thanks!