The Path to Zen

Uncomment RewriteBase in Mambo

After fresh installing Mambo 4.5.3, I went ahead and switched on “Search Engine Friendly URLs”. Mambo was user friendly enough to remind me twice that I needed to rename the included htaccess.txt to .htaccess in order to make the mod_rewrite kick in, which was nice and I heeded the advice. Then I still started getting 500 Internal Server Errors when accessing some of the menu items. Turned out that I also had to uncomment the RewriteBase line and change the URL to the actual path. It would be even nicer if Mambo could go all the way and include that part in the reminder message.