can I install elxis under its own folder? seo friendly urls problem

[andyash]

I am testing elxis on my local xampp server.

1. Can I install elxis under its own folder (www.mysite.com/elxis) yet still access it from the main URL (I type only www.mysite.com for elxis to be launched? The reason I want this is because my site has a lot of files and folders and I want to keep my elxis folder clean instead of getting mixed up with the rest).

2. I cannot access the site after enabling the Search Engine Friendly URLs even after renaming the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess and setting the path in the file to my local installation file. I could not find a solution to this in the entire forum.

[datahell]

I think you should check what is your server's public folder and where Elxis really is. Of course Elxis can be inside a folder but you must type the folder's name in the url too. (ie http://localhost/elxis/ ). If you don't wish to type the folder's name then set your server's root path to the Elxis folder (in that case files above that folder will be not available online).

[andyash]

1. My online site is under public_html folder and I want elxis to be as public_html/elxis but still be available by typing only www.mysite.com without needing to add elxis to it. How can I achieve this?

2. My local xampp installation has many CMSs installed under its htdocs folder and so far elxis was available by typing http://localhost/elxis. Now after enabling search engine friendly urls and renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess the site is not available at all. How do I sort this out?

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Is your XAMPP is running on windows?

[andyash]

Yes, it is. Even another CMS with friendly url enabled is not working anymore, so the problem might not lie with Elxis. I recently updated my Xampp by overwriting the older files.

I vaguely remember I had to make some adjustments to Xampp to make the friendly urls work. Could you help me remember them again?

[Ivan Trebješanin]

The problem is: there is NO use of .htaccess on Windows.

[andyash]

Solved it. I had to enable mod_rewrite in apache. Now it works. I just wish Elxis had more templates to work with.

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Elxis has all the templates that joomla and mambo have.