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Just to follow up on this... Transpires the only actual issue was the host server not allowing the use of relative paths, as such, the 'standard' .htaccess file needed a tiny tweak... Put the original V5 SEO classes file back, all is well. All links now work.

Mmm, given there is no similar switch in V6 to turn the SEO format links on and off, we may we revert to V5.216 for the foreseeable... I couldn't seem to find* a 'what's new in V6' list of features, just to get an idea of what we'll lose by staying with V5. *ok, I didn't look terribly far, but would've expect it to be somewhere close to the V6 download section...

Remove the conditional IF makes no difference. Enable SEO links, error 404. From the admin panel, if I attempt to run the PHP Info tool, all I get is a blank pane, nothing loads. This happened on both V6 and V5.216 - looks like this host has quite a few things locked down...

Going back to my initial problem... Earlier I was uploading 5.216 to a temporary folder on the server and I can clearly see the option on the SEO settings page that enables/disables SEO URLs. Well, the same thing happens on V5. Enabled, html pages are not redirected to the relevant SEO path. Disabled, the site works fine, with the SEO path in the URL. The install .htaccess button works, it dumps a copy in the root of the installation - so, somewhere along the way, the server simply isn't processing the .htaccess directives correctly. Odd thing is, if I change the .htaccess file to this: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://google.com/[R=301,L] It works exactly as expected, any visits to thebarrymusicshop.com get redirected to Google.

LOL, good point, well made Ian!

Right... a comma instead of period shouldn't pose much of a problem. I'm waiting on my ftp client to finish uploading files to a temporary folder on the server so we can run a side by side comparison... There's only a handful of products entered so far, so updating any crazy prices shouldn't take too long.

Seems this beta version is just a little to buggy to use at the moment - just discovered two bugs... 1) Create new product, enter price, leave sale and cost price *blank*, save the product, view product listing, shows retail price crossed out and £0.00 in red. Go back to admin panel, check the product entry, both cost/sale boxes have 0.00 in them. Sitewide sale disabled too. Add the product to the cart, shows proper price. 2) Change sort method on a category from default to say Z-A (doesn't actually matter what sort you choose), browser refreshes and decides to show you a huge red error message stating that the category doesn't exist - transpires the cat_id reference is lost in the URL. Before my friend enters way too much information into the db regarding products etc... is it a complete ball ache to go back to V5 and maintain the data already entered?

Did the rebuild, cleared everything on that maintenance list actually, to no avail. The registration link is still static.

I hear ya...sadly I have no say in where the site is hosted :/

Bugger...it's not quite the solution I was hoping for! Categories and products now work, sadly the login/registration link top right of the home page doesn't..returning the usual 404 error - http://thebarrymusicshop.com/register.html This is kind of a deal breaker... And, oddly enough, I had a quick web-chat with the hosting company and they confirmed that the server _does_ support MOD REWRITE, so I'm not sure why the .htaccess file is being ignored :|

Bingo! I renamed the V6 seo file and uploaded the 5.216 file as a replacement... Refreshed the shop page, instantly saw the 'friendly' URL replaced with some nasty SEO-looking URL, that works! Can't say we're terribly fussed about friends urls at the moment. Would this be considered a bug?

So, it seems the web host doesn't support MOD REWRITE...What can be done about this now? Is there a way to turn off all this SEO path urls?

Done.

While I'm trying to sort out my SEO/MOD REWRITE issues on another thread, I just thought I'd mention that the social media icons at the foot of the homepage do not appear to link correctly. Twitter is ok, as is the Facebook icon, when you hover over the icon, the status area of the browser suggests the URL is correct. However, adding an Instagram username in the admin panel, returns another Facebook URL when the Insta icon is hovered over. YouTube is even worse... The backend is hard coded to a user, no option exists to point it to a channel. Accordingly, entering a channel name won't work. This shop I'm setting up for my friend, they have a channel on YT with no associated username for it, so the YT icon on the shop homepage doesn't work either.

Thanks for the update dude... I was attempting to reply to my OP with an update but IPS was giving me an error. I have the .htaccess file in the root, it has a copy/paste of the pastebin post here http://pastebin.com/BsqPARLnit it. However, upon trying to check that the PHP engine on the host is capable of the mod rewrite, when I visit the admin panel then choose PHP Info, the pane on the right is completely blank. Nada. Zilch.