How to fix these errors? Urgent

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    I am having these error messages with a Joomla installation:

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  2. shallowink

    shallowink Well-Known Member

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    First guess would be there's something in configuration.php such as an extra whitespace or new line character after the closing php tag ?>.
     
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    rubeina Invisible Staff Affiliate Manager

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    Ah! There were some characters before the opening php tag, not sure how they got there though :|
    Probably added by the web host I don't know, this fixed the errors. Thank you.

    This is sort of annoying, all internal pages are showing 404. I am able to access the backoffice. (I've Joomfish enabled)
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #4
    Exactly that... if your editor is adding blank lines after ?> you can end up with that error. Just to be safe, you can just remove the trailing ?> from your config file (or any other file you suspect). The closing PHP tag is optional and if you omit it, you can have all the trailing lines you want.
     
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    Oh, it actually sounds like you got the dreaded UTF w/ BOM. Where the characters these :  ?
    Which text editor are you using? Odds are you will have to download the files, change the encoding etc.
     
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    rubeina Invisible Staff Affiliate Manager

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    Yeah "  ? " is exactly what I've got. I edited the config file with notepad.

    Concerning the internal pages 404 error. I disabled the SEO settings, seems to be working fine with only SEF urls enabled. I get the 404 again when I enable Apache mod_rewrite... will have to do with "not so pretty" links I guess.
     
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    shallowink Well-Known Member

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    I would recommend getting notepad++, it's free and after I started using it UTF w/BOM became a problem of the past.
    To correct the problem with notepad, when you go to save the file there's a drop down beneath the file name. Mine's set to ANSI.
    Any files you have edited with notepad are likely to have had their encoding changed. I would check the files first (notepad++ will let you search in Files for specific characters, which might help) before tackling the pretty urls problem.
     
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    s.usmanshah Peon

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    you need to delete rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess this should solve your problem and it is a must step for enabling mod_rewrite and using seo plugins
     
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    this file is located in your root directory where joomla is installed, in your case you can find it in /htdocs/public/www/caffeine/htaccess.txt
    just rename it to .htaccess (remember to put trailing ".")
     
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