SEF url's not working - Joomla! Forum - community, help and support

i'm total noob when comes joomla. i'm trying site , running else more familiar joomla, not when it's running on windows.

http://docs.joomla.org/enabling_search_ ... endly_(sef)_urls_on_iis/iis7

i tried following article there i'm not sure if did everything. copied re-write section webconfig. although noticed article says it's been tested on joomla 1.5 , we're on 2.5.8 now.

assuming article still correct, supposed manually create rewrite rule in iis says create rule under iis url rewrite? don't understand why wouldn't created in sample web.config

i'm not sure format of sef url's should - index.php/content/content2 or /content/content2/ ?

if try going url index.php in
http error 502.2 - bad gateway
the specified cgi application misbehaved not returning complete set of http headers. headers did return "".

if go url without index.php in 404 error.

did googling , found think might indicate php install off.
found suggesting not using fastcgi cause
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6090 ... hp-scripts

i tried doing suggested in creating phpinfo file, when try go phpinfo.php/foobar?foo=bar same 502.2 error. tried doing rewrite rules commented out , still error.

would appreciate in getting working.

edit: think made progress upgrading php install 5.4.10 - don't error message now, don't correct page, displays home page no matter sef url use.

i believe redirect taking place, since if change target url phpinfo.php, takes me phpinfo() test page set instead of home page. ideas?

your web.config file must wrong. have used 1 supplied webconfig.txt?

sef without rewrite have index.php , rewrite not.