rewrite engine

Submitted by rolli1 on Thu, 2006-11-23 20:11 in Price Tapestry

Hi David,
although my host says that the rewrit engine is enabled the useRewrite in the config file does not work for .
With my other host it works fine. Do you have an explanation for that?

Greetings

Roland

Hi Roland, I presume that

Submitted by support on Thu, 2006-11-23 20:31

Hi Roland,

I presume that you have got .htaccess in place. What happens if you go to one of the rewritten URLs, for example:

http://www.yoursite.com/merchant/

Cheers,
David.

Yes .htaccess is in place I

Submitted by rolli1 on Fri, 2006-11-24 10:27

Yes .htaccess is in place

I get an error page saying that the webaddress could not be found.

Regards

ROland

Hi Roland, Is your site

Submitted by support on Fri, 2006-11-24 10:48

Hi Roland,

Is your site installed into the top level directory of your website? If it is not, don't forget to set RewriteBase in .htaccess, for example:

RewriteBase /shopping/

Is the error you get a 404?

Do you have access to your web servers error log? Sometimes that will tell you what the problem is when a .htaccess setting isn't working...

Cheers,
David.

I get an error 404 and I do

Submitted by rolli1 on Fri, 2006-11-24 11:06

I get an error 404 and I do not have access to error logs. Site is installed in the root directory. I am going to discuss this again with my host because I now believe that the fault is at his end.

Regards

Roland