Pleaseee helpppp

Hi,

I'm trying to make a site SEO friendly. Actually I have bought some script where I need to add an Addon in order to make it SEO friendly. I enabled the addon but when I try to configure, it give me following error:

Warning - Unable to proceed: This add-on requires your server to handle url re-write procedures.

Could any of you tell how to resolve this issue? I would be very thankful.

Thanks & regards,
Archc

 

Check the documentation of the script, you might need to edit htaccess for it.

 

What documentation? I spoken to technical guy there and they said.. they can't help me with this.... how to edit htaccess?

 

htaccess file is in the root directory of your site. If you can't see it it might be hidden or not exist.

without knowing what script you have we can't really help.

 

Make sure your web server has mod_rewrite enabled. Contact your host if your not sure, but this should be enabled on almost any host.

 

What is the name of the script anyway? Just mention it, chances are there thousands of us here that also uses it and they could help.

 

its GEOclassified

I'm actually testing it on local host before putting on the server. So as Ironcladservers said.. all host has mod_rewrite enabled, will it work fine when I put it on the server?

.htaccess file is there, but there is nothing...

this is all this file contains

##### --- NO LONGER USED!!! HTACCESS IS NOW GENERATED FOR YOU IN ADMIN. --- #####

# See the user manual for more information.

 

Put a ticket in to your host and they may do it for you.

 

It should, only one way to find out Give it a try!

 

I can't do that.. unless it work fine on localhost.. The site is already running and I will be replacing current script with this one...I dont want site goes down when it doesn't work at sever too

 

Mate,

I'm testing it on localhost.

 

On your local server, check your httpd.conf file for "AllowOverride", set it to "All". Are you using Xampp/Lampp server?

 

I'm using WAMP

How to set it to "alloverride" to ALL?

 

Open up the httpd.conf file for your Apache configuration in your favorite text editor, search for "AllowOverride" in the file, then if you see it says "None" then change it to "All". Then reboot the Apache HTTP server, and try again.

 

Thanks Mate, I found the file.

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

This is I found in the file. I will change "None" to "All".. is this what needs done?

 

Yes, then save the file and restart Apache.

 

I found many occurrence of"AllowOverride" in this file.. Should I find and change all occurence?

 

Changing it in <Directory /> should make your script work. (That means that it's set to all for the root directory, which is probably where your script is installed.)

 

Yes try to change <Directory /> this should work if not then you have to check your server configurations

 

The issue is resolved guys. Unfortunately none of the reply was even closer to solve the problem. Someone on my skype helped me.

Thanks to all who replied.

Cheers
Archc