I have a feeling this is a fabulous script, however I am faced with a few issues that I can really use some help with.

Here they are in no particular order:

I put in about 50 categories, yet when I click on "ADD A SITE" there are NO categories that show up, therefore I can't add a site. They are all top level categories so it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe I missed something?

I really want to get rid of the stuff at the bottom of the site (It looks like a review of the DewCode and also the Google Adwords. or atleast be able to choose what is in that area)

I would LOVE to be able to make the main page about 800px wide for the search categories etc. because I really want to have an outer table running around that space so i can put up ad boxes. http://thehandmadedirectory.com

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Ok, as I mentioned in the PM.. the included text file /docs/dothtaccess.txt addresses the internal server error , as does this FAQ entry here.

Also, for anyone installing this in their website's root directory..

On the admin configuration page,

Base URL would be the URL to your site .. http://yoursite.com with no trailing slash.

Base Path should be blank ..

To ensure the search engine spiders can navigate everything, I'd also suggest adding this mod rewrite rule to your .htaccess file. The full explanation can be found in this FAQ entry

Code:

## add mod rewrite rules RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / ## make /directory/ act as index # to test, rename the bundled index.php to index.php.old # and browse to your domain, if the script loads, and the URL # does not end with "directory/" you can safely delete index.php.old RewriteRule ^$ /directory/ [L] RewriteRule ^index\.(php|htm|html)$ /directory/ [R] RewriteRule ^index\.....$ /directory/ [R] ### the following rule really has nothing to do with the script, but ### I think it's a good idea # Redirect non WWW to WWW RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]