Thanks David, that's great, using the .htaccess line has worked and I can now get the alias feature to work.

Thanks again for taking the time to look at this for me.

Hi,

as follows:

PHP Built on: Linux box443.bluehost.com 2.6.28-10.40.intel.E1000E.BHsmp #1 SMP Thu May 20 14:03:42 MDT 2010 x86_64
Database Version: 5.1.47-community-log
Database Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.13
Web Server: Apache/2.2.16 (CentOS) mod_ssl/2.2.16 0.9.8l DAV/2 mod_fcgid/2.3.5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.17 Stable [ Wojmamni ama woobusani ] 27-April-2010 04:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply, I'm using version 3.7.2 - the free version. I have changed the alias as you suggested and also checked that the fix index php option is enabled. Perhaps I should try un-installing and re-installing again?

Thanks again

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply, I have changed it to:

General/house-training-your-dog.html

in the aliases tab (it removes the first / if you try to save it there) but still no joy - it's not redirecting. Is there anything else I could try to get it to work?

Cheers
Bonnie

I have been having some trouble getting 301 redirects to work, I installed JoomSEF after a previous installation of SH404SEF. After getting the problem I followed the instructions about checking there is no jos_redirection table, I uninstalled JoomSEF, checked there was no table with redirection in the title using PHPMyAdmin, and then I re-installed JoomSEF. 301 redirects are still not working, and a quick check has shown that there is still no jos_redirection table in my database - has it failed to be created perhaps when I reinstalled, and is there anything I can do to fix it?

I am trying to redirect:

www.dogs-day.com/index.php/General/house-training-your-dog.html

to

www.dogs-day.com/general-help-advice/house-training-your-dog

in the url alias tab I have:

dogs-day.com/index.php/General/house-training-your-dog.html
index.php/General/house-training-your-dog.html

Many thanks!