Joomla .htaccess problem

Hello there
i m newbie in development .. i mean totally zero in this..
i've installed joomla but i changed the config to seo friendly URL's
it said change your htaccess.txt file to .htaccess ( there's already 1 .htaccess file in root folder)
where can i find other htaccess.txt file to change it?? i posted in joomla forum but no one replied
please help
here's the URL www.thegujarat.org

Many many thanx in advance

 

There should be a htaccess.txt file, rename this to .htaccess and ignore the other one already in the directory.

You'll know if you've done something wrong as if you have SEO Friendly URLs turned on then clicking on a link on the site will give a 404

 

Thanx Matt,
But i cant see any htaccess.txt file.. will it be there in root folder or in some other directory???
Thanx

 

There should have been one in the files that you uploaded? Chack the package you downloaded from the Joomla website.

 

I didnt downloaded.. i did install from fantastico..
there's one in root folder n it has all the config in it..
but can't find another one

Any Help appreciated please...

 

Do you have SEO friendly URLs turned on?
If you do can you navigate to ther pages on the site? - Clink on the links

If yes then the installation is fine.

 

Yeah seo friendly url's are turned on..
and when i navigate thru sites it says cannot find server
lol tonight again whole night i have to try this..
I think joomla forum isnt so supportive

 

I'd scrap the Fantastico install and do it manually to check everything is being installed correctly. It's weird that the htaccess.txt hasn't been added to the server.

 

hmm i think i'll do that..
but are you sure htaccess.txt is on root folder??

 

It 'should' be in the root folder

 

Allright Matt.. many thanx.. i'll uninstall it tonight and will upload it manually ..

 

No worries, if you get stuck give me a shout

 

Sure Matt, it'll be my pleasure to learn things from you
Thanx once again

 

i have same problem with file .htaccess
i can`t make url friendly.
if i make Search Engine Friendly URLs option "yes"
and Use Apache mod_rewrit mode "no" then i get url ---http://localhost/joomla/index.php/home.html

and if i make Use Apache mod_rewrit mode "yes"
then i get http://localhost/joomla/home.html
but page can not find. so plz help me

 

@vikrant_karanjkar: if you are running your localhost on a windowsbased computer you can't loose the index.php in your URL

Most hosting companies run a Lunix or Unix based server, there your are able to get the best SEF URLs.

.htaccess files can ba a struggle somtimes since there are different hosting companies en even there can be different server setups.

I have same sample .htaccess files on my site that you can check, most problems occur if Options FollowSymLinks is either On or Off

 

For the love of god don't bump old threads!!

 

which way shall I use ??

php.ini
they advices some changes

________________________________________________________

### to reach your site and other content as such ###
### Security Risk involved in allowing allow_url_fopen###
allow_url_fopen = off;
memory_limit = 40M;
upload_max_filesize = 20M;
max_execution_time = 50000;
browscap = /usr/local/lib/browscap.ini;
### Register Globals off for php 4 ###
###if you use an htaccess file to change to 5 this doesn't matter ###
register_globals = off;
error_reporting = (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING);
url_rewriter.tags = “a=href,area=href,frame=src,form=fakeentry,fieldset=”;
display_errors = off;
________________________________________________________

or


.htaccess

they advices to add one line

________________________________________________________
RLimitMem 128000000
________________________________________________________

my target is to get over the problem of allocated memory which appeared when I integrated AEC membership script with Community builder login

what do you advice?