Topic awaiting preservation: Problems with Mambo

Ok here is the scenario i have installed mambo to my server www.digitalwright.net/mambo

then i activated "easy urls" it then asked me to rewrite the htaccess.txt to .htaccess

this is the htaccess file:


##
# @version $Id: htaccess.txt,v 1.5 2005/01/22 23:00:27 spacemonkey Exp $
# @package Mambo
# @copyright (C) 2000 - 2005 Miro International Pty Ltd
# @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Mambo is Free Software
##

#
# mod_rewrite in use
#

RewriteEngine On

# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update YourMamboDirectory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /YourMamboDirectory

#
# Rules
#

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


Now i get this error:


Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Your administrator may not have enabled CGI access for this directory.


Can you help me???

Thanks


oh yes a related question how can i view my .htaccess file on the server??

(Edited by Blacknight on 10-05-2005 19:44)

you should be able to get at your error log - seew hat line it's complaining about.

And you might be able to retrieve the .htaccess on the server via ftp.
No web delivery though - that's the whole purpose ;-)

Well the problem is that i dont actually want to start edeting the code of mambo it is very complex and my skills are by to low for that sort of complex code. so knowing the exact line would not be of a great help

as for retreaving the htacces file i can not find it with my ftp prog.(wsftp pro) how would i go around finding it??

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Blacknight said:

so knowing the exact line would not be of a great help

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Well....if you don't know what line the problem is caused on....you can't really figure out why

2 things that may be obvious:

did you change the "/YourMamboDirectory" to reflect the actually directory?

And do you know that CGI access is enabled, as that seems to be what the error is suggesting.

knowing the exact line will telly ou wether your server does not have mod_rewrite, or if there's some other mistake you might fix.


You'd retrieve the file via the command line ftp program (start/run/ftp mydomain.com. Then cd the_directory/deeper/deeper, get .htaccess).

ok i know i am new to this sort of things but where do i get to see the exact error code??

well, once you have found your error log file, post the last 20 lines or so, and we'll have a look.

cant seem to find tehm ..ill have to contact my provider tomorrow


thanks for the help so far