You REALLY need to upgrade your Joomla, that site can be hacked in seconds id upgrade the template so its 1.5 native its pretty easy to do.

alright, I've updated and still the same error...

Matthew Murphy said:You REALLY need to upgrade your Joomla, that site can be hacked in seconds id upgrade the template so its 1.5 native its pretty easy to do.

Are Search Engine Friendly URLs enabled in you Joomla Global config, and Use Apache mod_rewrite enabled? do you have htaccess working?
are you using sh404sef
is this happening with joomla articles?

Are Search Engine Friendly URLs enabled in you Joomla Global config? yes

and Use Apache mod_rewrite enabled? no

do you have htaccess working? working?

John Andon said:Are Search Engine Friendly URLs enabled in you Joomla Global config, and Use Apache mod_rewrite enabled? do you have htaccess working? are you using sh404sef
is this happening with joomla articles?

is this happening with joomla articles? yes it with articles as well... I had not noticed before.

Krisidious said:Are Search Engine Friendly URLs enabled in you Joomla Global config? yes

and Use Apache mod_rewrite enabled? no

do you have htaccess working? working?

John Andon said:Are Search Engine Friendly URLs enabled in you Joomla Global config, and Use Apache mod_rewrite enabled? do you have htaccess working? are you using sh404sef is this happening with joomla articles?

Hi,

You need mod_rewrite on to use SEF URLs properly. Turn on mod_rewrite - after you do the following:

The .htaccess file is in the root of your joomla install - it may still be named htaccess.txt - change it to .htaccess

And then...

If you are using mod_rewrite and SEF URLs, it sounds like you may need to add the subdirectory for the rewriteBase in your .htaccess file like so:

Open .htaccess in notepad or dreamweaver or whatever you use for coding and change the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

to

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdirectoryName

I hope that is your problem and this fixes it.

thanks much for that... I will try today sometime and come back and let you know.

Cristina Solana said:Hi,
You need mod_rewrite on to use SEF URLs properly. Turn on mod_rewrite - after you do the following:

The .htaccess file is in the root of your joomla install - it may still be named htaccess.txt - change it to .htaccess

And then...

If you are using mod_rewrite and SEF URLs, it sounds like you may need to add the subdirectory for the rewriteBase in your .htaccess file like so:

Open .htaccess in notepad or dreamweaver or whatever you use for coding and change the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

to

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdirectoryName

I hope that is your problem and this fixes it.

you sooooo ROCK Cristina! that fixed it...

to clarify for future readers...

I had an error where my K2 catalog links would give an "404 error component not found"

Cristina Solana, suggested:

1. ensuring that the htaccess file was active
2. that the htaccess file had the subdirectory turned on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdirectoryName
3. that "Use Apache mod_rewrite" have "yes" selected.

after completing those suggestions, my error has been fixed.

thanks so much Cristina...

What if your not using a subdirectory? its just a www.sitename.com

this is my entire .htaccess and the sites been working fine with smartblogger enabled and today it just quit working when i have not touched the site in 2 days (been swamped with client work and this is my own site)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymLinks
ErrorDocument 404 www.adultmg.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^adultmg\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.adultmg.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.shtml\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ www.adultmg.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^home\.html$ www.adultmg.com/index.php [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

I am very happy that fixed it. I know how frustrating those 404s can be... :)

Krisidious said:you sooooo ROCK Cristina! that fixed it...
to clarify for future readers...

I had an error where my K2 catalog links would give an "404 error component not found"

Cristina Solana, suggested:

1. ensuring that the htaccess file was active
2. that the htaccess file had the subdirectory turned on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdirectoryName
3. that "Use Apache mod_rewrite" have "yes" selected.

after completing those suggestions, my error has been fixed.

thanks so much Cristina...