Getting 404 error when accessing custom .html pages under my Zen Cart folders

[MarkReaves]

Ok I've searched and searched and cannot find out how to do this...

I have a custom page under a directory within Zen Cart.

Example:
Zen Cart is installed in /
The custom page is /customfolder/custompage.html

When I go to view this custom page at the URL it is supposed to be, I get a Zen Cart "Page Not Found" error.

I just want to be able to view this custom page. No I do NOT want customers to see this custom page. This custom page is for my own uses.

Question is, how do I get it to show? It seems Zen Cart is trying to prevent access to it for some reason.

[MarkReaves]

More information that I forgot to mention...

I am using the SEO URL Rewrite thing. It may be affecting stuff but I am not knowledable of .htaccess or the modrewrite thing.

[DrByte]

It's likely something in your .htaccess rules.
Turn off your SEO mod and then rename your .htaccess to htaccess_OFF and test again.
Then sort out your issues based on the test results.

[MarkReaves]

When I turn off SEO and rename the .htaccess file, I can access the file.

Again, I know nothing about .htaccess files and I've been trying to understand how the mod rewrite thing works. I'm totally confused.

This is the .htaccess file I have right now:

##### NOTE: Replace /shop/ with the relative web path of your catalog in the "Rewrite Base" line below:



Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /



# From Ultimate SEO URLs

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]



# For Open Operations Info Manager

RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]



# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager

RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]



# All other pages

# Don't rewrite real files or directories

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]