News Module Items Can Not Find Page

[KitchM]

The news items show up on the list in the main page news column. However, when selected they give a page error:

Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

Why is that? My experience was that they always worked. Now they do not. The only thing I did was add some more categories rather than just the General one.

[velden]

Try:
Site Admin » System Maintenance -> Cache and Content -> Update Routes

[KitchM]

Sorry, but that didn't help.

I have now updated the the system to handle Pretty URLs per the instructions given. That didn't help either.

Something had changed to a working news system and now, and I have no idea what changed.

[Dr.CSS]

What is the URL in the browser when it gives this, did you set a detail page in the News admin or in the {tag}..?

Link to site..?

[KitchM]

Here is the resulting page from the news item:

http://www.sierraclubswmg.org/news/7/39 ... -laws.html

[Dr.CSS]

The /news/ part of the URL leads me to believe you are using the original default news call from that default template which I show below...

{* Start News, stylesheet "Module: News" *}
<div id="news">
<h2>News</h2>
{news number='3' detailpage='news'}
</div>
{* End News *}

This means it is looking for a page in your site called news, remove that and it should be good...

[KitchM]

I would not have changed that. Why did it work at first right out of the box?

[Dr.CSS]

If you install the default content there is a page called News, most likely you deleted it...

http://multiintech.com/defaultcontent/d ... /news.html

[KitchM]

Now you got it!

What I did was create a news page under my political page. Evidently I named it differently, but part of it stayed the same. It appears that actually I did not create a new one; I must have reused the original one.

While I obviously intended to create a new one, starting with the same name automatically caused the program to overwrite rather than creating new.

Wow. I sure missed that one. I will never be able to recall the exact steps I went thru to do that, I have now renamed the one and created a new News page.

Now I will have to figure out how to relink the news articles to the News page.

Thanks for your help! That was huge.

[rab]

I seem to have a similar problem, but only if the "Use expiration date' feature is checked in the News article's record. If expiration in not checked, all is fine.

Example:
When expiration is not used, the article details display properly on this page: http://omgcparish.org/news/521/15/Youth-Group-News

When expiration is used, the same page (http://omgcparish.org/news/521/15/Youth-Group-News) displays with "The requested URL was not found on this server." error. Also, the return link at the bottom of the article is not displayed.

This only started happening after I upgraded News module to v. 2.14.1. The site is using CMSMS v. 1.11.9, 'mod_rewrite' is enabled in config.php, and it does have a page with alias 'news'.

Any help would be most appreciated!

[Dr.CSS]

Try adding a page extension, .html, .php, .asp, whatever...

Any page that is expired most times shouldn't show up on the front end...

[uniqu3]

@rab There is a setting in News module (options tab) what to do with expired articles.
Look if "Expired articles can be viewed in the detail view" is checked or not.

[rab]

If it were only with expired articles, I wouldn't be so concerned. But the error occurs with articles that have NOT expired!

[KitchM]

I tried recreating the News page and renaming the other that shared the name. CMSMS seems to automatically create news-1, news-2, etc.. What would have been the original News module page name? Do I have to uninstall News and then reinstall to get things back as they were? What would I back up if that is the case?

Thanks.

[Dr.CSS]

The original News page had an alias of news, when you delete it and try to make a new 'news' page it will auto make news-1 as alias, just change news-1 to news, as long as it isn't used on any other page it should work...