Search Engine Friendly URLs

[jabop]

I had this feature enabled for the life of my forum, but mistakenly just disabled it, and now lots of things aren't working. I have it checked to enable the Search Engine Friendly URLs, but the URLs are still php urls and not search engine friendly.

Can anyone point me to the specific php file that I can manually edit this option?

[karlbenson]

Standard Url
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=234352.0
Search Engine Friendly Urls (By Default)
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php/topic,234352.0.html

But the following style of urls is only available as mods
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/Search_Engine_Friendly_Urls/0
Either Pretty Urls or SEO4SMF mod

[Oldiesmann]

I had this feature enabled for the life of my forum, but mistakenly just disabled it, and now lots of things aren't working. I have it checked to enable the Search Engine Friendly URLs, but the URLs are still php urls and not search engine friendly.

Can anyone point me to the specific php file that I can manually edit this option?

If it's still not working, then your setup likely doesn't support that functionality - SMF will not use those URLs if it thinks they won't work (this is done to prevent your forum from breaking if the functionality doesn't work on your server).

If PHP is running in CGI mode, the "cgi.fix_path_info" setting needs to be set to 1.

If you think the functionality will work on your server, try the Override SEF Checks mod, but be warned that your forum may not work if you install this.

[jabop]

If it's still not working, then your setup likely doesn't support that functionality - SMF will not use those URLs if it thinks they won't work (this is done to prevent your forum from breaking if the functionality doesn't work on your server).

If PHP is running in CGI mode, the "cgi.fix_path_info" setting needs to be set to 1.

If you think the functionality will work on your server, try the Override SEF Checks mod, but be warned that your forum may not work if you install this.

My server supports it, it was working fine until I unchecked it in the admin panel. I can check the checkbox back to friendly URLs, but the urls are still php urls.

[karlbenson]

try clearing your SMF cache and see if that makes any difference