moved domain name - only home page works

Question

I moved a site to a magento new domaine name. Home page works well but all the links give 404.

I verified that "*LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so*" is enabled in httpd.conf

.htaccess has this entry:

## rewrite everything else to index.php
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

old site

http://old_site.com/                    << this works
http://old_site.com/en/contentpage.html         << this works

new site

http://newsite.com/shop1/en
http://newsite.com/shop1/en/contentpage.html     << this is a typical link from the home page                                    
                                                 << link from new site takes me here, but this gives 404 error

http://newsite.com/shop1/index.php/en/contentpage.html  < this link, however, does works
http://newsite.com/shop1/en/contentpage.html            << link from new site takes me here, but this gives 404 error

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What's the "link from new site" look like? Is it an absolute URL with a fully qualified domain name? Is it just an absolute URL (begins with /) or is it a relative URL (doesn't begin with /), and what's the URL of the page with the link you are clicking on? — Jon Lin
Have you changed the base url in the database to match the new domain? That is the first, most common mistake. — clockworkgeek
cwGeek - changed base url in two places in setup table in datbase. (otherwise I probably would not see anything!) — Mustapha George

Slayer Birden Slayer Birden · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-28T06:57:20

Based on the description you've provided, it look like the Use apache rewrites option wasn't set during the installation, or get lost somewhere.

Check for path web/seo/use_rewrites in the core_config_data table - it should have value 1, if it doesn't, set it to 1.

moved domain name - only home page works

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