Administration Joomla! 3.x • Joomla 3.x in addon directory, URL Rewriting on, 404 error

Hi folks, I'm new to the whole website creation game and have just engaged a provider to host some domain names I've registered for my business.



I've engaged a US/Canada based host provider, which included registering a .com domain, although the domain I want to use is the same name but with .com.au (i.e. Australian based).



Steps so far include:

1. I've set up the .com.au domain as an addon domain in public_html (under the main .com domain)

2. Installed Joomla 3.3.6 through Softaculous into the addon domain directory

3. Changed htaccess.txt to htaccess (although I note there is another htaccess in the main public_html folder).

4. Had a play with Joomla setting up categories, menus, articles etc.

5. Home/main page shows in site preview with URL Rewriting enabled, but any other main menu links (i.e. 'About', 'Services' etc) throw up the following 404 error:



Not Found



The requested URL /about was not found on this server.



Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.



Apache mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at http://ift.tt/1oViImM Port 80



If anybody can help me out with getting the necessary mod_rewrite rules written to the .htaccess file for the addon domain (.com.au) I'd be massively appreciative.



Thanks and cheers



PS - public_html directory htaccess file reads:



RewriteEngine on

# -FrontPage-



IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*



<Limit GET POST>

order deny,allow

deny from all

allow from all

</Limit>

<Limit PUT DELETE>

order deny,allow

deny from all

</Limit>

AuthName centreofgravitycoaching.com

AuthUserFile /home/--------/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd

AuthGroupFile /home/--------/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^centreofgravitycoaching\.com$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.centreofgravitycoaching\.com$

RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.centreofgravitycoaching\.com\.au\/" [R=301,L]



Htaccess file found in the addon domain directory reads:



##

# @package Joomla

# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2014 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.

# @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt

##



##

# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!

#

# The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems

# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already

# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in

# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to

# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work,

# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.

##



## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.

Options +FollowSymLinks



## Mod_rewrite in use.



RewriteEngine On



## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.

# If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below

# This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!

#

# Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]

# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]

# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]

# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})

# Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage

RewriteRule .* index.php [F]

#

## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.



## Begin - Custom redirects

#

# If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to

# www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those

# redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.

#

## End - Custom redirects



##

# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL

# is not directly related to physical file paths.

# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).

##



# RewriteBase /



## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.

#

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

#

# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request

# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php

# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script

RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

#

## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.

Statistics: Posted by Flyer2014 — Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:37 pm

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