Whilst working on my first large scale Joomla Website I encountered a number of pretty perplexing errors.
Firstly SEO and the .htaccess file. No matter what settings I used on the .htaccess file I seemed to end up with an internal 500 server error. I finally got it going but after hours of work.
Then onto the contact form. Whilst setting up the basics of a contact form everything worked fine, form sent received, oh and another error number 200 this time appearing in the head of the html page whilst still printing out the page intact! Not being a joomla expert I looked for ways around the problem. Chrono Forms popped up and allowed a WYSIWYG interface for creating forms within Joomla and they sent, hey presto! Without the error message!
But the error message was not gone for long, appearing now randomly alongside search results.
All along this fruitless journey I had tried in vain to contact the hosts “Network Solutions” in order to ask them if this was related to the settings their end. Contact was brusque to say the least, 30 hours after a support ticket was opened I would receive a message stating the problem was related to Joomla and to seek advice on the Joomla Forum – Gee thanks!!!
I was pretty nervous about moving the site to a new host, with all these error messages with no explanation found I wondered whether I was up to the job. However using the akeeba backup module and with the help of a decent host www.inchhosting.co.uk it really was not hard at all.
So all in all I just realised how crucial your hosts are, the problem all along was Network Solutions not me, I also realised not to be apprehensive to move hosts – if I can do it then anyone can!