Permalinks, Redirect 301 and Link Structure

**carlo75** · 10-20-2009, 02:00 PM

Have you thought about what to do with the permalinks?

It can be useful a plugin, will let decide what structure adopt for permalinks in hotaru... structure of permalinks Pligg is something like that:

site.ext/category/some-words-or-title
or
site.ext/story.php?title=some_words_or_title
or some customized else...

For a new production site there are no big problems; but for a porting, there are a lots of problems to check... like a 404 page and penalization on search engine.

What do you think about a plugin that manage clean and friendly urls?

**Nick** · 10-20-2009, 02:10 PM

Try this:

Go to Admin -> Settings and set Friendly Urls to true. Make sure you've renamed the htaccess_default file to .htaccess and edited it with your site's url info.

Let us know if you encounter any problems.

**carlo75** · 10-20-2009, 02:27 PM

oops haven't see that...

perfect Nick,
but I have some misunderstood with capital initial letter in categories:

Technology (pligg production) i.e. is different by technology (hotaru)

but in local I can't do lot of test, htaccess in vista is a nightmare...however, I think all working in a production site... thank you again!

**Nick** · 10-20-2009, 02:54 PM

Guess what? I'm doing everything in Windows Vista!

I'm using WampServer. Works well, even with htaccess.

I see your point about uppercase vs lowercase category names, but the important thing is the pages load with both so your links and Google results *should* still be okay.

I'll move this thread into the Core forum now.

**carlo75** · 10-20-2009, 05:23 PM

Me too using WampServer,
but htaccess give me a lot of problems...

I'll try to shot a fresh installation of Wamp, and checking all configuration parameters in htaccess, then I will update this post.

**Nick** · 10-21-2009, 01:45 AM

If it helps, this is what my the settings part of my local .htaccess file looks like:

Code:

##### 404 Error Begin #####
## If Hotaru is installed in a subfolder, change the below line to ErrorDocument 404 /name-of-subfolder/404error.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404error.php
##### 404 Error End #####

##### Re-directing Begin #####
Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
## If Hotaru is installed in a subfolder, change the below line to RewriteBase /name-of-subfolder
RewriteBase /hotaru/branches/0.7
## If installed in a subfolder you may need to add ## to the beginning of the next line
## RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/

## Remove these two lines if you have a sub-domain like  http://bookmarking.myhotarusite.com  or http://localhost
## Keep if your site url looks like http://www.myhotarusite.com
## RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
## RewriteRule ^\/?(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
##### Re-directing End #####

**carlo75** · 10-21-2009, 06:15 AM

Hi Nick, fresh installation done.
Now: home page (1st) works well, but when I click on a [read more], I'm redirect on a page of hotaru without story, only header and sidebar.

When I try to navigate on page (hotaru/pg/2), same thing happens

**Nick** · 10-21-2009, 06:39 AM

That sounds like it's not recognizing the .htaccess file.

For comparison, here's my folder structure:

C:\wamp\www\hotaru\branches\0.7\admin_index.php
C:\wamp\www\hotaru\branches\0.7\index.php
C:\wamp\www\hotaru\branches\0.7\.htaccess

etc.

Please post your folder structure and the first section of your .htaccess folder so I can take a look. Thanks.

EDIT: I've set the demo site to use friendly urls, so you can see it working there.

**carlo75** · 10-21-2009, 06:51 AM

Ok Nick:

C:\wamp\www\hotaru\admin_index.php
C:\wamp\www\hotaru\index.php
C:\wamp\www\hotaru\.htaccess
...

the EDIT section of my htaccess are:

Code:

##### Re-directing Begin #####
Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
## If Hotaru is installed in a subfolder, change the below line to RewriteBase /name-of-subfolder
RewriteBase /hotaru
## If installed in a subfolder you may need to add ## to the beginning of the next line
## RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/

## Remove these two lines if you have a sub-domain like  http://bookmarking.myhotarusite.com  or http://localhost
## Keep if your site url looks like http://www.myhotarusite.com
## RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
## RewriteRule ^\/?(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
##### Re-directing End #####

and yes, hotaru demo working correctly I see...

**Nick** · 10-21-2009, 07:57 AM

Hmm... I don't know!

Make sure you have rewrite_module checked in the Apache modules menu in Wamp, but I think you already do, otherwise you would get 500 Internal Server errors.

I'll give this some thought.