Prestashop default htaccess file
Prestashop will not work correctly if something is missing in the Prestashop default htaccess file and in most cases it will give your the 404 error for Prestashop SEO url s.Some times there might be a sample htaccess file in your root directory. But the below Prestashop default htaccess file will be the greatest htaccess file for your Prestashop website. Because this htaccess file will provide you the image caching and image rewrite conditions. So you have to replace the www.yourwebsite.com to your real domain name and upload this into your root directory.
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#php_value max_input_vars 5000 #php_value post_max_size 48M #php_value upload_max_filesize 48M # ~~start~~ Do not remove this comment, Prestashop will keep automatically the code outside this comment when .htaccess will be generated again # .htaccess automaticaly generated by PrestaShop e-commerce open-source solution # http://www.prestashop.com - http://www.prestashop.com/forums <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule . - [E=REWRITEBASE:/] RewriteRule ^api/?(.*)$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L] # Images RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$1$2$3.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$2/$1$2$3$4.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$2/$3/$1$2$3$4$5.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$1$2$3$4$5$6.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$6/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$6/$7/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)?(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/p/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$6/$7/$8/$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9$10.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^c/([0-9]+)(\-[\.*_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/c/$1$2$3.jpg [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^c/([a-zA-Z_-]+)(-[0-9]+)?/.+\.jpg$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}img/c/$1$2.jpg [L] # AlphaImageLoader for IE and fancybox RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^images_ie/?([^/]+)\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$ js/jquery/plugins/fancybox/images/$1.$2 [L] # Dispatcher RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourwebsite.com$ RewriteRule ^.*$ %{ENV:REWRITEBASE}index.php [NC,L] </IfModule> <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week" ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 week" ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week" ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 week" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year" </IfModule> FileETag INode MTime Size <IfModule mod_deflate.c> <IfModule mod_filter.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript </IfModule> </IfModule> #If rewrite mod isn't enabled ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?controller=404 # ~~end~~ Do not remove this comment, Prestashop will keep automatically the code outside this comment when .htaccess will be generated again