(SOLVED) Permalinks (Friendly URLs) Broken Site

[dbaker]

Hello,
I recently installed Prestashop onto my MediaTemple grid service. I got it up and running pretty easily, with it working "out of the box" with MediaTemple. I think you the install procedure could learn something from Wordpress (no CHMODing - I'm dreading the PS update process already!) but otherwise it was fine, until I turned on the "Friendly URLs". It's not clear if I need to generate a .htaccess file before I click submit or after, so I did it before hand in a new window. Then I clicked submit. Now I get nothing but blank pages on my test site (http://shop.rickanddrew.com/) and when I try to access admin.

Anyway to recover from this? I tried deleting my .htaccess file from my root, but it didn't help.

Thanks for your help,
Drew

[KIH999]

What about test-change "PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS" in database table "configuration" using phpAdmin?

Not sure if it helps..

[dbaker]

Hey KIH999,
Thanks for the help.

It says this:

SQL query:

SELECT *
FROM `db19021_shop`.`ps_configuration`
WHERE (
`id_configuration` LIKE '%PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS%'
OR `name` LIKE '%PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS%'
OR `value` LIKE '%PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS%'
OR `date_add` LIKE '%PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS%'
OR `date_upd` LIKE '%PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS%'
)
LIMIT 0 , 30

And then this:

id_configuration = 4 name = PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS value = 1


What do I change? I tired setting value = 0, but it did nothing.

Thanks again!

[KIH999]

It's 1 or 0, so if zero don't fix it, put it to 0.. (That turn it off)

Sorry, it was a long shot.

It seems like NOTHING is done at all on your page, try to upload a php-script to see if it pharse PHP..

Like this.. test.php

<?php
echo "hello from my shop";
?>

[KIH999]

Maybe you can get a hint if you turn on display_errors in config.inc.php


@ini_set('display_errors', 'on');

[dbaker]

OK I fixed it. I changed the PS_REWRITING_SETTINGS value to 0 in myphpadmin. Then for some reason my host had reset the domain to use PHP4, so I set it back to PHP5 again and it works!

Now, what's the correct procedure for enabling Friendly URLs? (If any Dev's read this, take a look at how Wordpress does it, it's much more simpler).

Thanks!