URL Rewrite not working

[ambience]

Installed version 2, all seem to work fine except the URL rewrite, I get 404 error when I browse categories after enabling URL rewrite.

Do I need a separate mod for this feature to work in version 2? Is this feature integrated into V3?

Please let me what I need to do to get Search Engine Friendly category browsing enabled. Thanks!

[James]

an url would be nice. No seperate mod is needed.

Make sure you have mod_rewrite available to you on your server.

[ambience]

hi Dawzz,

thanks for the reply.
can i PM you the url?

[James]

sure thing

[amitpatel_3001]

I think you need to give 777 permission to your htaccess file :o

[Boby]

Probably 775 or 755, at least this is what I had to do on several servers where I installed phpLD.

[James]

or lower it one. I have had to take it down low on some setups. That usually causes 500 errors not 404. You should never have to give your htacess world writable permissions. 775 yes 777 no

[shadav]

actually you never want to give any files 777 that can be tampered with...because 777 allows anyone and everyone read, write and execution of that file/folder that you made 777....and that's not a good thing....major security risk....usually you want 755
gives you read,write and execute...and everyone else read and execute