[SOLVED] Problem with enabling SEF URLs in IE6

[Farhad Sakhaei]

hi friends...

i enabled Search Engine Friendly URLs in administration panel ... and i renamed htaccess.txt to .htacceess too

but after it , when i want to login through frontend page , internet explorer display me this error :
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http:///....   Operation aborted

i checked this on 2 different servers but both of them have same problem ...
i checked this by firefox browser but there isn't any error in firefox and the page displayed...
i didn't check it in I.E. 7 , but most people are using I.E. 6 now

please check it , thanx

[CREATIVE Options]

Check you .htacceess file & the error log.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

this is the apache access log :

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"GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 17155 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"


[CREATIVE Options]

Not access log BUT error log.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

there isn't any error , i sayed that this problem is in internet explorer 6 , but there isn't any problem in firefox ...  

[CREATIVE Options]

Check the published modules & the template for not compatible operations.

In FF with the "web developer" add-on, check for JS error.

And if you have an error with any browser you must have a logged error in the error_log file.
For this check with SSH or FTP access your Elxis root folder for the error_log file.
From the web hosting control panel check for the error log shortcut.

If you don't find any problem, and you want me to take a look, send me PM with access directions. Or ask for Official support from Eliasan & Datahell.

Elxis FAN.

[datahell]

First press control+F5 in Explorer to be sure that is not a browser cache issue.
Check the contents of the .htaccess file. Are sef lines uncommented? You must have something like this in it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

Check if the -f and -d lines exist and the RewriteBase directory. I suppose you have mod_rewrite in apache because with firefox it works. Is elxis in a subfolder on in your httpd root? Paste here the full explorer message, your absolute path and anything else you think we must know.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

i installed original elxis on the host from first without any change codes

i added this 2 lines in .htaccess for disable display errors and allow url fopen only:

php_flag display_errors off
php_flag allow_url_fopen off

and i uncomment RewriteBase / and set it to :

RewriteBase /elxis

because i installed elxis in /elxis directory

i set ftp access on elxis and i enabled it
you can check it
www.portalha.com/elxis/

[datahell]

Place .htaccess in folder "/elxis" with
RewriteBase /elxis ( or "/" I dont remember the right value right now, see the apache manual).

Check in order not to have multiple .htaccess files with the same commands.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

i did all of this
i tested these :

RewriteBase /elxis/
RewriteBase /elxis
RewriteBase /

but the problem didn't solve

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Hi Farhad,

I have just tried the link you posted, and everything works just fine... I even tried IE5.5!!!
Every browser was rendering fine the SEF URL-s

[Farhad Sakhaei]

hi ivan,
no , the links are OK

try to login using frontend...
you cannot login with I.E 6 , but you can login through firefox
this happened when i enabled Search Engine Friendly URLs !!!

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Here's what happened: I CAN login from the frontend using IE6, but for some reason I cant see front page anymore! I have to use IE7 to log out before I can see the frontpage again. I believe there is some cookie related problem in IE6, because when I go to frontpage with IE7 I can see logout option. IE7 work ok. And all the browsers using Gecko engine (Opera, NS, FF...)

[datahell]

Ok, here is the solution.

- Open your template's index.php file.
- Move this line: <?php mosShowHead(); ?> bellow meta tags.
- Save it. That's it!

Example of right syntax of template's index.php for compatibility with IE6:

<?php if ( $my->id ) { initEditor(); } ?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; <?php echo _ISO; ?>" />
<?php mosShowHead(); ?>
<link href="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site; ?>/templates/xxxxxx/css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

Is problem solved?

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Nope!