Hosting Joomla on awardspace servers will probably cause your Joomla site to not direct to pages and articles correctly and you’ll be getting a lot of pages not found errors – “404 Page Not Found”.
Such issues are usually caused by the SEF functionality of Joomla. There are several things you should check in order to fix this:
- Open your configuration.php file and edit the var $live_site = ‘ ‘; line to match the actual URL of your website. If your website is http://yourdomain.com/joomla/ for example, the line should look like this:
var $live_site = ‘http://yourdomain.com/joomla/ ‘;
- Go to the administrative end of your Joomla website -> Global Configuration and make sure that Search Engine Friendly URLs is set to Yes.
- Also check that Use URL rewriting is set to No. Also in Global Configuration.
- Make sure you have renamed the htaccess.txt file in your Joomla folder to .htaccess.
- Edit .htaccess file and comment out Mod_rewrite in use.
If you follow all of the steps above you should have a fully operational Joomla website with the SEF functionality enabled.
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