I've scoured postings on this forum and via google and found lots of people with the problem, but could not find a solution (I'm sure it exists). I'm looking for anyone who has gotten URL rewriting to work with Serendipity (I'm using 1.1) on GoDaddy.
Before we start, yes GoDaddy does support mod_rewrite, but obviously not exactly the same as other hosts since s9y 1.1 works with rewriting just fine for me on hostgator, but not on GoDaddy.
Here's what I get (I'll use my North Pole Christmas blog as an example)
without url rewriting
If I go to the main page (i.e. http://www.north-pole-christmas.com and hit the Christmas Wallpaper category, I get
http://www.north-pole-christmas.com/ind ... -Wallpaper
Now, I go into the admin console and enable URL Rewriting using mod_rewrite
It creates the .htaccess file for me, now I go back to the root url
I hit the Christmas Wallpaper category again, this time I get the re-written URL as follows
http://www.north-pole-christmas.com/cat ... -Wallpaper
However, I get a blank page.
Now, if I add a / to the end of the url as follows
http://www.north-pole-christmas.com/cat ... Wallpaper/
and hit enter, the Christmas Wallpaper category comes up. This behaviour is consistent for everything. It all seems to need that trailing slash to work.
If anyone has any ideas on what to try, or has gone through this themselves, I'd really appreciate some guidance
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Thanks!
BTW: Serendipity is by far my favorite blog engine...just need to get this little quirk ironed out.
Note: I am able to get around the problem for categories by changing the permalinks for catagories to have a trailing slash "/", but it doesn't work for things like rss feeds.