News not working with mod_rewrite

[spage1970]

Hi,

I have the following text in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?category=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index([0-9]+).html$ index.php?category=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^new-links.html$ new-links.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^new-links([0-9]+).html$ new-links.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^top-links.html$ top-links.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^top-links([0-9]+).html$ top-links.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^popular-links.html$ popular-links.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^popular-links([0-9]+).html$ popular-links.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^editor-links/index.html$ editor-links.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^editor-links/index([0-9]+).html$ editor-links.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-l([0-9]+).html$ view-link.php?cat=$1&title=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]



This works fine apart from the fact that when I try and read any news item I get an error.

Any ideas?

[WTM]

Link... please

[spage1970]

http://directory.pod-star.com

thanks

[WTM]

This is related to server setup with some hosts.
Try to add this line in the beginning of .htaccess file right before "RewriteEngine on":

Option -MultiViews

I know this has helped with 1and1 hosting and GoDaddy

[spage1970]

I tried adding that line but all I got was a server error when trying to view the site.

Any more ideas?

[Vincent Wright]

Do you have /news/ folder on your site? Please check it via ftp.

[spage1970]

No, there is no folder named /news/ on my website just checked via ftp

[Vincent Wright]

Ok, don't have any more ideas right now.

Can you send ftp/cpanel/dir admin credentials and I will take a closer look then.

[spage1970]

Sent you a PM Vincent

Thanks

[Vincent Wright]

Fixed.

For some reason the rewrite rules for news pages were missing in the .htaccess file. I just added those rules.