Hi David.
I have added an external hard drive just for xampp to be loaded just for working on my sites running joomla. My site is located at expansion space (f)xampp/htdocs/mysite/ So far all seems to be running the joomla site fine. I see the joomla site at localhost/mysite and can all so go to the back end, add pages......everything seems fine.
I then added price tapestry so I have (f)xampp/htdocs/mysite/pt I go to localhost/mysite/pt and get a page with search box and under it is Search or browse by merchant, category or brand
If I click on merchant, category or brand I get error 404 object not found.
With the curser over the links before I click I see localhost/merchant.php or localhost/catagories.php same for brand
With localhost/mysite/shopping in address bar I get same 404 can't find
I looked on line and saw to check if rewrite # tag was removed in xampp and at was.
I am at a lost and have tried since yesterday morning to find the problem and can't seem the same problem in any forums.
I know you are a busy man and I posted here last. Hope you can help.
Thank you,
Kirk
Hello Kirk,
Browsing to;
(f)xampp/htdocs/mysite/pt
...you would be looking at the standalone Price Tapestry installation that serves as the backend / database for use with PriceTapestry.org for Joomla, so a 404 error at that point indicates that the value for $config_baseHREF in config.php is incorrect. Check /pt/config.php and ensure that line 6 is as follows:
$config_baseHREF = "/mysite/pt/";(where "mysite" is the sub-directory in which you are developing your site)
Returning to the Joomla / PriceTapestry.org for Joomla installation, browsing to;
localhost/mysite/shopping
...for this to return a 404 error would indicate that re-writing hasn't been fully set-up within the Joomla installation. The first thing to make sure is that in your Joomla installation folder (/mysite/) .htaccess has been created as a copy of htaccess.txt from the Joomla distribution, but also edited to uncomment the RewriteBase line and so that it is pointing the sub-directory of your installation, so this should be:
RewriteBase /mysite/With that in place, finally make sure that Joomla is configured to use Search Engine Friendly URLs, which, from /administrator/ is under Global Configuration > SEO Settings.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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