osCommerce-use search engine urls problem

[modom]

In the osCommerce store admin under configuration/my store you can set "use search engine urls" to true or false.

Each time I set this to true and then try to shop I get a blank page saying:

Not Found
The requested document was not found on this server.

Does anyone know how to fix this via the server with plesk so I can use this setting or use any of the seo contributions that need this set to "true"?

Thanks!

 

[hardweb]

Definitely it can not be solved from inside Plesk, check if Oscommerce uses for this apache mod_rewrite. If so it can be solved only from command line, but it depends on what it does exactly.

 

[modom]

Hi,

I had to add this to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file:
AcceptPathInfo On
This could have been added to the vhost.conf file or a .htaccess file in the root of the oscommerce store.

Then you have to have the cookie setting turned on under admin/configuration/sessions

This removes anything after the ? in the url which is the sid ID.

Funny thing though on all my stores this works flawlessly except for 2 stores. When the cookie listing is turned on and you try to checkout of the store to buy something you are taken to the cookie_usage.php page in oscommerce which says you don't have cookies enabled. I do have cookies enabled because the same browser doesn't do that on other stores so don't know exactly what is going on there.

 

[modom]

I set this in my vhost.conf and vhost_ssl.conf file for the open_base problem still in oscommerce while saving a backup using gzip and zip:

<Directory /home/httpd/vhosts/designhosting.biz/httpdocs>
php_admin_value safe_mode 0
php_admin_flag register_globals on
php_admin_value open_basedir none
</Directory>

If I was to set this in each vhost.conf and vhost_ssl.conf file for each store on my server would there be any security risk whatsoever?

If there is a security problem how would I fix it so I get no errors when using backup and using gzip and zip?

Thanks!