Product links don't work

[musicmaster]

I want to keep the Prestashop linking system. So I copied the link descriptions from my Prestashop installation (see attached picture). But it doesn't work. Neither the category links (like http://www.bilbil.com/34-chocolade), nor the product links (like http://www.bilbil.com/geslaagd/155-snoepblik-geslaagd.html) work. They result in 404s.

In addition I have a problem that on my home page some pictures show the file-not-found image. But they do have an image and I can't get the image to show. Take for example http://www.bilbil.com/5722-homedefault/chocolade-munten-50-gram.jpg. This should refer to http://www.bilbil.com/img/p/5/7/2/2/5722-homedefault.jpg. But that image is there and the "pretty url" not.

[musicmaster]

The funny thing: all this is working on my localhost, but not on the server. I have refreshed the .htaccess many times but it just doesn't have an effect.

[musicmaster]

This is PHP 7.2. Could that be a problem?

[lesley]

It could be, what is your local instance on? Is allow overrides set on the server as well?

[musicmaster]

Localhost is on php 5.7.

The servercode is a copy of the localhost code. Both have overrides enabled.

[lesley]

Not overrides in your installation allow overrides in apache, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#allowoverride

[musicmaster]

@lesley said in Product links don't work:

Not overrides in your installation allow overrides in apache, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#allowoverride

Sorry, this evades me. I thought we talked about TB/PS overrides and suddenly you refer to Apache overrides.

What is your point? Is there something wrong with my Apache configuration?

[lesley]

The point is, if you run apache without allow override enabled the htaccess that thirty bees creates will be ignored.

[musicmaster]

Thanks, that fixed it.

[lesley]

Nice. As a tip, if you want to actually code your htaccess to your httpdconf, and disable allow overrides it does speed up an apache server.

[musicmaster]

Thanks for the tip. As a tip from me: your blogpost on installing TB on DO doesn't mention this allowoverride stuff (or that you need to add modrewrite for it). It might be good to add it.

[lesley]

Hmm interesting, I might have to revise it. They must have changed their image for their lamp stack since I wrote the article. I think I wrote it off their 7.0 image when that is what was widely used.

[musicmaster]

It might be that DO had to redo things for Ubuntu 18.04. I set this droplet up two months ago and probably since then they repaired some bugs (in my install there was no Mysql password).

I used to prefer Virtualmin but the fact that nowadays they don't even activate php reduced my trust.

One curious question: I understand that my pretty url's did not work without overrides enabled. But what puzzles me is that on the homepage most of the images (80% at least) were shown correctly despite being a pretty url. How could that be?

[lesley]

I am not sure, that is strange.