Fixed it

Line 84 of /components/com_sef/sef.php

changed

to


and now my site works on the root of the server

the problem turned out that it was setting the $base variable to be \/ instead of the / it actually was

This seems to have fixed it for me and hopefully will be useful to other people with 404 errors

I've seen there's a few 404 problems but none of them seem to solve my problem

I set up a test sever, www.testserve.com/joomla and installed joomsef and it worked pretty much out of the box

Installed joomsef on the sites live server, www.liveserver.com and now when I activate it all I get are joomla 404 errors.

if I visit www.liveserver.com it says FILE NOT FOUND: /

I have aslo moved the test site to www.testserver.com to test with and this has developed the same problem

I did find that I am able to manually set up the sef url for '' to go to real url 'index.php' but this only fixed the home page

any suggestions?