Hi everyone.. I have a joomla site running on apache 2 on windows. (XAMPP) the site runs fine and I'm using virtual hosts. They should be set up all good. Ok so I wanted to get SEO working. Now I enabled everything and got the .htaccess going. However I can't get it to work. I Have tried everything that the readme suggest (enable disable Options +FollowSymLinks and # RewriteBase /) still no go.. I also have this in my apache error log T"he given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET" I'm using jommla 1.0.12 This is driving me crazy and i really need to get SEO working. I have tried openSEF and that didn't work either. This is the htaccess file ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above. # Options +FollowSymLinks (i have tried with this on and off) # # mod_rewrite in use RewriteEngine On # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL # is not directly related to physical file paths. # Update Your Joomla!/MamboDirectory (just / for root) # RewriteBase / (i have tried this on and off) ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section ############# Use this section if using ONLY Joomla! core SEF ## ALL (RewriteCond) lines in this section are only required if you actually ## have directories named 'content' or 'component' on your server ## If you do not have directories with these names, comment them out. # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes## (have tried this on and off) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php # ########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section This is what the link looks like when it doesn't work http://www.bedelish.com/content/section/5/36/ and this is the link once I turn SOE off http://www.bedelish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=5&Itemid=36 I'm running the latest XAMPP and except for this the site is working fine. Someone suggested that windows apache had a problem rewriting ":" and something but i don't know what to do.. any help would be great.. Cheers
Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^content/section/([^.]+)/([^.]+)/$ index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=$1&Itemid=$2 [L]