How I fixed .htaccess to make SEO friendly URLs work for me

[Guest johnDuly]

I am using ver CC 5.08.

and have not been able to get past the 404 error when turning on SEO URLs using the providing .htaccess.

so I reviewed the mod rewrite docs and decided to try my own fixes.

What I ended up with adding "%1" to the last rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^(.*).html?$ %1/index.php?seo_path=$1 [L,QSA]

this fixed my 404 errors when using SEO friendly URLs.

I hope this helps someone else.

--john

update:

I guess I should have added my store is accessed like this

store.domain.com

and the above fix made that work,

but then I found sometimes request were reverting back to what "store.domain.com" points to

domain.com/store (which didn't work with the stock rewrite either for some reason )

to get both forms of the url to work this is what I ended up doing

note: I had to hard code the "store" perhaps someone with more .htaccess knowledge could improve

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^

store

RewriteRule ^(.*).html?$ %1/index.php?seo_path=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico

RewriteRule ^(.*).html?$ %1/

store

/index.php?seo_path=$1 [L,QSA]

I couldn't figure out how to get either to work with out hardcoding the "store".

I hope this helps some of those who are having problems.

--john

Edited April 10, 2012 by johnDuly