I'm a total newbie at all this.
Installed SEF component. When I looked at \"configuration\" in that component, when I went to save, got a box asking me if I wanted to purge pre-existing URLs? I don't know if I do or not, so I just hit \"cancel\". is that a problem?
Then I ran into the problem where every link from my home page brings up a 404 page not found. I panicked, freaked out, threw myself out the window, and fell 40 stories to my death...but, I'm back at my desk now.
I pulled this from the FAQ section:
\"After installing the component, when I click any link, I get \"404 Page not found\" error.
You have probably forgotten to create and edit your .htaccess file. If .htaccess file does not exists, you may create it by renaming the htaccess.txt file included in Joomla! root directory. Then make sure that the RewriteCond and RewriteRule directives are uncommented in the section for 3rd party SEF modules (almost end of the .htaccess file). Finally set the RewriteBase to match the root URL of your Joomla! installation at the server (this means the path to root with out the server name - e.g. if your Joomla! is installed as
www.domain.org/somedir/myjoomlaroot, that the right setting would be RewriteBase /somedir/myjoomlaroot). Please see component documentation for more details. \"
I got as far as renaming the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess, but I'm lost on the rest of that. I don't know what constitutes something being \"uncommented\" (does that mean delete everything on that line in the file, or what??), and I don't even SEE \"RewriteBase\" anywhere.
Can someone help? Thanks much.
Jack
