Getting 404 Errors on Links

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Sounds like you may not have turned the rewrite engine on.

Make sure before the rewrite statements, you have this line (make sure it is not commented out):

RewriteEngine On

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

rikimaru wrote:

thanks, that made it work.

Sorry, I was trying to split out your additional questions into new threads and messed up. I wanted to get your reply back in this thread to "close it out".

The reason I am splitting is that it is not good form to have unrelated questions/answers in a thread. I will open up two additional threads to address your two separate topics.

Here are the other two threads that I have opened up for the other two questions:

How to Shorten Links on Other Modules
How to Have Page Titles Change Dynamically

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2007 Posts: 7

ok thank you montego, it was my fault i asked the wrong questions in the wrong place Embarassed

One more thing, i installed Shortlinks into my other website, everything is ok but the links don't apear when you point your mouse at the buttons, but if you try to access the link directly it works, i mean if i try for example www.mypage.com/forums.html the page exists and its the same like www.mypage.com/modules.php?name=Forums . So what i want to know, is why its not showing the links directly ? do you have any ideea montego ?
Thanks in advance!

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

No, do not worry about that one bit. It is done all the time, but I just try to keep things as clean and clear as possible. Besides, these were very good questions, so good in fact, that I felt that they deserved to the Stickies!

Thanks!

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

rikimaru wrote:

One more thing, i installed Shortlinks into my other website, everything is ok but the links don't apear when you point your mouse at the buttons, but if you try to access the link directly it works, i mean if i try for example www.mypage.com/forums.html the page exists and its the same like www.mypage.com/modules.php?name=Forums . So what i want to know, is why its not showing the links directly ? do you have any ideea montego ?
Thanks in advance!

Changed your post did you? Where is my "smack-down" emoticon when I need it. Laughing

Maybe a link to your site would be helpful. Do you see the same problem here on my site? If so, point it out to me where it is so that I can analyze it further. Thanks.

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2007 Posts: 7

well... i didn't find any of those problems here at your site montego, but trust me i will search for them Very Happy

Anyway for my website its not one or two... its almost all, here are some examples you can try www.Garcya.us (here nothing works, notice that this will redirect you to my actual website) this is where i tried to see if for example the shortlinks work and i put in my url www.garcya.us/forums.html and saw that everything is ok, but if i point my mouse to the link on my website it shows me the long url and so on for all modules and blocks (thats my web site), and you can try some i made www.radio-resita.ro for example at the last one when i'm logged in as admin, my "modules" block they all show the long url, and the rest are kind'of working, excepting the voting block... if you need some more info please let me know, ok ?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Well, if on the first site you are referring to your template graphics, you have no anchor around these. These a strictly handle through the javascript that you have placed in them, so no normal browser links will show.

This has nothing to do with ShortLinks. Try turning off ShortLinks and you should see the same thing.

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2007 Posts: 7

but its not about the link from those templates, i know those won't show as a normal link, what about the forum ? or the top 10 downloads ? or the top 10 links block ? or maybe i didn't get your answer ? and what about the second web site? did you check that ?

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

Well the link to garcya.us is being redirected somewhere else so that will never work as the link garcya.us/forums.html is then not a valid url.

The other link to radio-resita - there is no module menu block that I can see so I cannot test the links. The links in the theme header are hard coded so they will never show as being shortened in the browser status bar.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

I am unable to check the other sites right at the moment, but I want to very quickly chime in that yes, in fact, the "hard-coded" links can be "tapped" using the GTZ-PageTap.php file. This is an enhancement to the core GoogleTap/GTNG that I had made. No longer are you having to modify ANY core nuke scripts or themes to tap any and all remaining links.

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

I forgot all about the PageTap file ;(

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

rikimaru, I have looked at the "radio" site and ShortLinks is definitely working, but you have a bunch of blocks that are not core PHP-Nuke blocks (not ones which come with the nuke distribution). If you add a block, you have to add your own corresponding GTB-<<block filename>> ShortLinks file.

With the "Garcia" site, are you sure that ShortLinks is turned on? I would also check to make sure your FTP client did not change the case of the file names for your blocks and/or for the ShortLinks files. I have seen some clients do this and *nix is very much case sensitive.