Can't access homepage.

[alfredo]

Hi,

This is my first post, cmsms looks really useful to me, now I'm learning about it.

I've already set up latest cmsms version.

Website I'm experimenting on is http://www.spanishtranslation.ws/

Link on the menu bar points to http://www.spanishtranslation.ws/index.php/home

Why can't link point directly to base url?

Also, when I click on "home" I get a 404 error, why is this happening?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Ted]

Open up config.php.  Change the internal_pretty_urls and use_hierarchy options to false.  That should solve the problem.

[alfredo]

Hi again,

I started installation and everything up from scratch.

Now, when I scroll over navigation menu links I see pretty urls such as http://www.spanishtranslation.ws/content_types.html

But when I click on them, I get a 404 error.

I've uploaded a htaccess file that looks like this:

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#php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
#php_flag register_globals Off
#php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off

# Make sure you have Options FollowSymLinks
# and Allow on
RewriteEngine On

#Rewrites page.shtml as index.php?page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

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This is how my url settings look:

#------------
#URL Settings
#------------

#Show mod_rewrite URLs in the menu?
$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';

#If you don't use mod_rewrite, then would you like to use the built-in
#pretty url mechanism?  This will not work with IIS and the {metadata} tag
#should be in all of your templates before enabling.
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;

#If you're using the internal pretty url mechanism or mod_rewrite, would you like to
#show urls in their hierarchy?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/parent/parent/childpage)
$config['use_hierarchy'] = false;

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';


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I also cleaned my browser's cache but problem persists.

What am I doing wrong? 

Thanks for your help! 

[tsw]

rename htaccess to .htaccess (notice the dot in the beginning, its important  )

[alfredo]

rename htaccess to .htaccess (notice the dot in the beginning, its important  )

Added the dot and still not working.

Also tried changing file extension from .txt to nothing (don't know if this means anything) and still not working. 

[tsw]

Anything on the server logs?

You can always change your settings to normal urls by setting $config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = false;