ServeU.net Web Hosting

The web hosting environment at ServeU.net is completely Joomla compatible from start. No changes or special settings are required to get your Joomla website up running on our servers. However, if you choose to use the .htaccess file that comes with Jooomla! CMS, there is a line in the .htaccess file that you have to comment out or delete. Note that this is not because this command is not allowed, but because it is already activated in PHP and thus not needed.

The line you need to edit if you use Joomla SEF with .htaccess is this one:

Options +FollowSymLinks

You can either delete it (since it won't be needed on our servers) or make it a comment by adding a "#" in the beginning of the line, like this:

#Options +FollowSymLinks

If try to activate the Joomla .htaccess without this modification, it will result in a Server 500 Error.