.htaccess problems

[jackso11]

My .htaccesss file is in my config folder, if I move it out to the root directory my site stops working and I can't login to the admin page. I get a 403 error.

I have set permissions of the file to 777, 666, 755, nothing seams to work.

Any ideas?

[shokinro]

The .htaccess file is different when it is under root and under a folder.
The folder name appears in each rewrite rules if your store is not at root.
You can open the .htaccess file to remove the folder name from each rules.

[jackso11]

I opened the .htaccess file and it is totally blank already.

Anyone help?

[shokinro]

if your store is at website root. Please copy content of attached content of htaccess.txt and paste to your .htaccess , they should be the same. please also set .htaccess file permission to 644
hope this work for you.

htaccess.txt

[jackso11]

Perfect! it now works

Thanks. Just one modification I need help with please.....the friendly url has a number in it which I guess is the number of the cell location in the database. i.e. www....../32-toys.html

can I hide the numbers so it just looks like: www......./toys.html

Thanks

[rocky]

No, not unless you write a separate rule for each product to add the product ID back in. That will work if you don't have many products, but will quickly become unmanageable if you have many products. PrestaShop requires the ID to determine which product to redirect to. The number doesn't harm SEO.