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Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 1.56
PHP version:5.2.17
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: 1and1
Akeeba Backup version which took the backup: Akeeba Backup Professional 3.4.3
Kickstart version used to extract the backup: Pro 3.5.2
I am using Admin tools pro also with admin tools htaccess files

Description of my issue: I just switched hosts from Rochen to 1and1 and used Akeeba Backup and Kickstart to move the sites. All of the 2.5 site restorations went perfect, but the old 1.56 site is giving me the following problems: The menu links were giving me errors so I turned off SEF urls and they work now, but not SEF. How can I get the SEF urls back?
Also, when trying to access the administrator area I am getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I can access the admin area if I do this: mysite.com/administrator/index.php or I change the htaccess to htaccess.bak.

I have read through your troubleshooter and I did not find an answer. Any ideas?

Thank you very much.

Sorry my mistake it is 1.5.26
Yes I am using Admin Tools Professional's .htaccess Maker.
Yes I am using a real domain name.
Yes I read the doc you referred to.
SEO settings are:
Search Engine Friendly URLs No
Use Apache mod_rewrite Yes
Add suffix to URLs No

The site did restore and is functioning, but I would like to get the SEF urls back and not have to add index.php to my admin login.

I appreciate any insight you might have on the problem.

For changing the host name fields I put the name of my new host: 1and1.com ?

The "Force index.php parsing before index.html" is set to YES and the "Redirect index.php to the site's root" is set to YES. Is this correct? or by toggle do you mean change them to no?

Sorry for not understanding.
Thanks.

Yeah I was able to get the admin without typing index.php but then it strips the website down to something that looks like something from the 80's.
I put the old .htaccess file in to make it look normal.

Any ideas?

I just did that and it strips the site down to bare bones again.
Very strange.
If need be I can just leave the site as is, but I would really like to find a solution if possible.
Any other ideas?

I turned off Front-end protection under Server protection and made a new .htaccess file and the site works fine.
I still can't get the SEF urls to work, but oh well, at least the site and admin login work.

Thanks for all your insight to the problem.

UPDATE: I turned on SEF urls and mod rewrite off and I have SEF urls except I have index.php after the domain.

A few minutes later I went back and turned on mod rewrite and the SEF urls now work.
I'm taking a backup and not touching a thing :-)
Thanks

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