Putting website online

Hi I've been having the same problem, I've uncommented the line in my .htaccess file so it now looks like this-

RewriteEngine On

# Some hosts may require you to use the `RewriteBase` directive.
# If you need to use the `RewriteBase` directive, it should be the
# absolute physical path to the directory that contains this htaccess file.
#
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

I'm still getting the 500 internal server error message when links are clicked from the home page, can anybody spot what i might be doing wrong?

Thanks

Hi Tom, I can't find any mistakes in your code. It has to work unless your not working from the root map I guess .. Did you do a 'hard refresh' (cmd+r or f5 on windows I believe?). You can also check if your url is formed/spelled the right way. You can check what url is given to your links by hovering over it. In Chrome it shows te url of the link on the bottom (left) of the page. I hope this helps you to uncover the problem. Let me know :)

Thanks Sandra, it's working now. Now just need to work out why the mail isn't sending.

If you run into any problems with your mailer, you can always ask :) I also had a lot of problems with it.. My codebuddy helped me out. You can also find more info in this discussion. Or you could contact your hosting. This helped me out a lot since they sometimes handle things differently from other hosting companies.

Yes my file tree is exactly the same. Then the only option would be a problem with the .htaccess file. I can't create files starting with a dot on my mac.. So I did some weird trick in terminal and now I got a htaccess_files folder with weird stuff in it, but the weird stuff works on my mac. In Sublime Text it shows the htaccess_files folder and a .htaccess file. I didn't upload the htaccess_files folder though. I saved the .htaccess file in Sublime Text as a file with the name "htaccess" (so I can see it in Finder), uploaded it and put a dot in front of it in Transmit (my ftp client). But I don't get why this shouldn't work either.

Thanks, I will look at it!

Haha well, lucky us :P

Did you have an issues with the swift mailer on your live site? I am getting a 500 internal error and I am not sure if it my hosting company.

Yes I indeed have an issue with it.. I only tested in with no info, then I get a failure message. But when I fill in the form and send it, I get a blank page :| I will take a look at it.. Tomorrow, it's almost night over here.

At this moment I have no idea how to solve this. At this moment I don't have a blank page anymore, but I still get the error 'Something went wrong'. But what went wrong? I haven't got a clue.

I used a different transport type - link: http://swiftmailer.org/docs/sending.html#transport-types

I changed the following:

    $transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.mail.webhosting.com', 25)
         ->setUsername('my_username')
         ->setPassword('my_password');

It does work now (my error messages at least, no blank pages anymore). But my message doesn't get send. Then it gives the 'something went wrong' error.

I figured it out!

$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 587, 'tls')
         ->setUsername('gmail address');
         ->setPassword('gmail password');
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

BUT

You need to go to https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and give permission to apps with lower security.

Sounds not very attracting to me, but it works. Now I have to figure out how to get my own webhosting shizzle to work. Let me know if you fix it too!

This doesn't work for me.. I found the send mail path of my hosting (PcExtreme, dutch hosting) and it's the same Swiftmailer uses as default:

$transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance('/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs');

This 'solution' does display the message that the mail was send, no blank pages or whatsoever. Looks perfect on the website, but I just don't get any mail! So in theory I believe the mail was sent, but never got to his destination.. (The condition in the index.php only gives the success message when there is something to send). I can't figure out why this isn't working.

$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 587, 'tls')
         ->setUsername('mygmail@gmail.com')
         ->setPassword('my-password')

This solution works perfect to me, but only with Gmail. I can't get it to work with my hosting. No clue why.. The only thing I have to change are the smtp address, port, username and password. I'm completely sure this info is correct. So it must be some other thing I have to change I guess.. When I use my hosting info I get the message 'something went wrong'. So the message wasn't even sent.

I'm not sure, but over here in the Netherlands we sometimes have strict rules. All webshops need to have a ssl certificate according to the law. As I've read I believe all personal info between website and customers needs to be secured and therefor also need a ssl certificate. I don't know if there are these kind-of rules in de US?

I don't quite remember how I solved this issue anymore.. I'm no so good with php yet. But as far as I understand your problem, you may create wrong urls for your pages and images. So that could be the problem why they're not showing and maybe that's what causes the 403 error too (I'm not sure).

I've did a search on 403 error. It seems it has probably something to do with wrong urls (I guess I was right). So your links probably have a mistake in the urls. Be aware it's also upper-, lowercase sensitive.

Anyway this is what I've put in my htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

# Some hosts may require you to use the `RewriteBase` directive.
# If you need to use the `RewriteBase` directive, it should be the
# absolute physical path to the directory that contains this htaccess file.
#
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]