[BlueOnyx:02907] Re: SEO, htaccess files, and Joomla on BlueOnyx

[Darrell D. Mobley]

> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] 
> On Behalf Of Chuck Tetlow
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:35 PM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:02903] SEO, htaccess files, and Joomla on BlueOnyx
>
> Hi to all BlueX gurus, 
>
> I've got a web developer driving me crazy.  And I was wondering if 
> someone here might have heard of this problem. 
> 
> He's trying to implement some of the Search Engine Optimization abilities 
> in Apache.  It calls for a .htaccess file in the root directory of the
website.  
> The .htaccess file is supposed to implement some RewriteEngine
configurations 
> (even though there are already some in the vhosts configuration file. 
>
> But each time he puts a .htaccess file in the root directory of the Joomla

> websites - it breaks the site which responds with a 500 error.  He claims 
> that no matter what he puts in the .htaccess file - it breaks the site. 
>
> Has anyone run into this problem before?  Or does anyone have experience
with 
> SEO and the RewriteEngine configurations?? 

If you don't want to make the changes available server-wide that Alan
suggested, you can add code to a single site's httpd.conf include file at:

/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/siteX.include

Add:

<Directory "/home/.sites/XX/siteX/web">
   AllowOverride All
   Options All
</Directory>

Save, restart httpd.