htaccess and categories

[sovehfire]

I've been on this forum for hours and tried all the suggestions in the threads I found. My problem seems a little different. I am not getting any errors when following categories down to subs, nor are the urls displayed as non SEO friendly. From the inside the site all is working well. But, if I do a test crawl of the site / spider test, the crawler gets 404 errors and the directories are being crawled as domain.com/category/subcategory instead of domain.com/Directory_Links/category/subcategory (yes, phpld is in a subdirectory.)

I'm using webhostingpad for hosting and I'm using the free version of PHPLD right now.

Here is my htaccess right now.


# Follow symbolic links in this directory
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Set the default handler
DirectoryIndex index.php

#URL rewrite rules
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Directory_Links
## Category redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

I've tried turning off FollowSymLinks, tried adding /Directory_Links/ in front of the DirectoryIndex and RewriteRule both seperately and together.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help!

Sovehfire

[James]

What is your site url set to in the admin

[sovehfire]

When I browse to System>Edit Settings>Site

The URL for my site is mydomain.com/Directory_Links/

Replacing mydomain.com with my actual domain name. Sorry, I had to remove url formatting to comply with live URL post rules (http// ect).

Thanks

[James]

what is the url? since the spidering is showing the error there must be a link somewhere that is wrong

[sovehfire]

I can't post it here. I get this error:

You are only allowed to post Live URLs to other sites after you have made the required number of posts.

I tried disabling "Automatically parse links in text" but it still will not let me post it, I wish I could, sorry.

[sovehfire]

http colon slash slash dubdubdub dot trulyromanticencounters.com/Directory_Links/


That is the SITE_URL in the PLD_CONFIG table as well.

[James]

I just crawled it with no errors??

[sovehfire]

If you don't mind my asking, which tool did you use?
I used tools.seobook.com general spider-test.

Perhaps they are crawling incorrectly?? I just tried again with same results. The category links are all coming from the domian home and not the subdirectory. Click on the links and they give a 404 error. :(

[James]

I used http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

[sovehfire]

Using your tool all reports to the proper URL. I don't know what is wrong with the spider crawl test but I am considering this a closed topic unless google starts snapping at me. Thank you for all your help. I am sorry if I wasted your time tonight. I hope this thread helps others and the spider crawl tests available onine are all just dumb.

Edit: Xenu