Magento Sub Pages Shows 404 NOT FOUND Error

Question

I am using Magento 1.9.1 . I installed Magento successfully in my server. But when I navigate any subpages (example:About Us, Contact Us, Login etc) in front end it shows 404 Not Found Error. But Home page display correctly.

My home page url is something like this: http://mydomain.in/store .This display ok. My Contact Us page is : http://mydomain.in/store/contacts . This shows Not Found Error. But when I type url manually like this http://mydomain.in/store/index.php/contacts .This shows working. That is when adding index.php it became working.

How can I make this working??

Solutions I found: Change 'Use Web Server Rewrites' to NO in System->Configuration->Web->Search Engine Optimization.

This make working, but the url contain index.php like this http://mydomain.in/store/index.php/contacts. I think http://mydomain.in/store/contacts is standard and this should work(but I don't know how). Another issue is User Logging, checkout etc are not working here. To make working we can add form key in corresponding pages. But this is not preferable because many pages have to change.

Another solution is : make enable apache mod rewrite. Uncomment this line LoadModule 'rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so' inside 'wamp\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.9\\conf\\httpd.conf'. make enable apache mod rewrite. Uncomment this line LoadModule 'rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so' inside 'wamp\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.9\\conf\\httpd.conf'.

My question is How to avoid 404 NOT FOUND ERROR in Magento Subpages? When I follow the above solutions the url path contain index.php. And the logging like features become not working.

How can I avoid index.php in url?

My folder structure is D:\\wamp\\apache2\\htdocs\\site\\store . store folder contain magento files. The home page is available in http://mydomain.in/store.

Please help me .Any help is really appreciable..

Answer 1

In order to avoid index.php in urls you must have mod_rewrite enabled on your server and from the Magento admin panel go to System->conguration->web->Search Engines Optimization and set the flag Use Web Server Rewrites to Yes . Clear the cache and give it a go.