In this article I will be teaching you guys how to resolved/fixed the irritating error that you being getting- Open Cart 404 Page not found error
Open Cart 404 Page not found error is caused by a broken link or an undefined URL .
By Doing a little edit or adding a simple code to your .htaccess can do the trick and Fix Open Cart 404 Page not found error .
How To Fix Open Cart 404 Page not found error
OpenCart 404/ broken link error appears mostly on the product and category pages.I have seen incidence where people just installed a fresh copy of open cart and receiving the 404 page not found error on all pages associated
>Login to Your Web Hosting Control Panel
>Go To Your Root Directory
>Open and edit the .htaccess of your open cart installation
>To Fix Open Cart 404 Page not found error add these codes to your top of your .htaccess
add this code at the top
# Prevent Directoy listing
Options -Indexes# Prevent Direct Access to files
<FilesMatch “.(tpl|ini|log)”>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</FilesMatch># SEO URL Settings
RewriteEngine On
# If your opencart installation does not run on the main web folder make sure you folder it does run in ie. / becomes /shop/RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base
RewriteRule ^download/(.*) /index.php?route=error/not_found
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1
Click save changes Refresh Your Home page and the error- Open Cart 404 Page not found will be gone