[wdvltalk] help with Apache mod_rewrite - RewriteRule in .htaccess

2003-06-23 Thread puterbug
Hi, Is there anyone here that has experience and the (patience and) ability to instruct a newbie-dummy in how to write a few .htaccess lines so I can make my site search engine friendly? I've been trying for hours to figure this out and all I manage to do is to crash my site when I try a new

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2003-06-23 Thread Joseph Harris
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[wdvltalk] Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread jac - WDVL
OMG I need help here - got up this morning, started up the machine no problem - went out for half an hour came back now it's saying Operating System Not Found. How can this happen? How can I fix it? Has this happened to anyone before? I've tried restarting many times it still gives me Operating

[wdvltalk] Re: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread puterbug
Been a lng time since that happened to me, so I'm real rusty here, but to get you off to the possible beginning of some help, I think the first question others might as is this, can you boot to you OS off a floppy or cd boot disk? Deb At 09:21 AM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: it's

[wdvltalk] Re: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Jac, I've tried restarting many times it still gives me Operating System Not Found! Operating System Not Found is the message you usually get if you try rebooting your machine halfway through a rebuild, when you've formatted the hard drive but haven't put the new OS on yet. Have a go at

[wdvltalk] RE: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread Paul Larue
In the best of cases, the system just needs a disk check for bad clusters/sectors. I may simply be that the system files needed for booting are foudn there. In which case, a disk check should solve the problem... In the worst case scenario, however, a virus formated your hard drive and you now

[wdvltalk] Re: help with Apache mod_rewrite - RewriteRule in .htaccess

2003-06-23 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Deb, Is there anyone here that has experience and the (patience and) ability to instruct a newbie- dummy in how to write a few .htaccess lines so I can make my site search engine friendly? Alistapart has a couple of great articles on this: http://alistapart.com/stories/urls/

[wdvltalk] Re: help with Apache mod_rewrite - RewriteRule in .htaccess

2003-06-23 Thread puterbug
Thanks, Jon. These I didn't have. A bunch others but not these. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a tutorial in the world that's going to help me figure this out on my own. Some seem to be a simpler read than others, but non simple enough for me to understand and do. Deb At 12:04

[wdvltalk] Re: help with Apache mod_rewrite - RewriteRule in .htaccess

2003-06-23 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Deb, Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a tutorial in the world that's going to help me figure this out on my own. The way I get clean URLs using rewriting is to have everything pointing at one central script, which then parses the URL and includes other files as necessary. I like

[wdvltalk] Re: help with Apache mod_rewrite - RewriteRule in .htaccess

2003-06-23 Thread puterbug
At 01:08 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: If you can show us what you've done so far, and what error messages you got, that would be really useful :-) Hi Jon, Thanks for taking the time to write all those instructions out. I will have a go at understanding them after I give you some examples.

[wdvltalk] Re: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread Franni Vincent
OMG I need help here - got up this morning, started up the machine no problem - went out for half an hour came back now it's saying Operating System Not Found. How can this happen? How can I fix it? Has this happened to anyone before? I've tried restarting many times it still gives me Operating