Fancy URLs problem.

[wobo]

Hi!

Testing out GS (3.1.2) on my own server (win7 with apache 2.2.21 and php 5.3.8) and have all green when checking Website Health Check.

http://worldofwobo.com/test/

I have turned on the Use Fancy URLs in General Settings and waited a couple of hours. Even restarted the apache a couple of times but can't seem to get it to work.

So I want to know what I can do to error search fancy URLs?

//wobo

[eatons]

Read the following page:

http://get-simple.info/wiki/permalinks

...i hope this helps!

[wobo]

Already read that a few times and it says:
The default URL structure for “FancyURLs” ON is: %parent%/%slug%/

If I understand this thing right I should only need to check the box for Fancy URLs and have mod_rewrite enabled for it to work using the default URL structure which I am after.

So I haven't put anything in the Custom URL box since I want the default one and I have not changed any rewrite rules in .htaccess file since this as I understand this should also not be needed for the default URL structure.

So how do I error search this? Any specific logs that can help or any test since I haven't played around with anything like this before it would help with a hint of what to look at.

//wobo

[yojoe]

So how do I error search this? Any specific logs that can help or any test since I haven't played around with anything like this before it would help with a hint of what to look at.

This problem is related to win+apache, not to webapplication using mod_rewrite. At least not directly.
Make sure mod_rewrite is working correctly on your software platform.
You can easily find problems, and solutions, where among the others you should be interested in "AllowOverride all" option.

[kazu]

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Options -Indexes

# blocks direct access to the XML files - they hold all the data!
<Files ~ "\.xml$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>
<Files sitemap.xml>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy All
</Files>

RewriteEngine on

# Usually it RewriteBase is just '/', but
# replace it with your subdirectory path
RewriteBase /gs3/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

============================================OR

RewriteEngine on

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /gs3/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /gs3/index.php [L]
</ifmodule>

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What does it say in the .htaccess?

I can't use Fancy URL.

I used to use Fancy url with the ".htaccess" below, but now I can't either way.