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I have imported a bonde site to the latest wamp on a home windows machine to test some upgrade work I need to do. I am wondering if people's general knowledge can assist with two questions about what may be  limitations with a wamp install.

ISSUE ONE:   I find that the Module Manager will not upgrade modules with either a new install of CMS Made Simple 1.8, or my imported site. I can upgrade modules doing an xml import.
QUESTION:    Does this sound, in anyone's experience, like a WAMP limitation? I don't want to do a whole lot of work, import back to my production server, and then find that I have to upgrade everything manually in future.

ISSUE TWO:   On the imported site I have pretty URLs set to the form fred.com/page.html  I cannot view pages in my imported site beyond the front page. If I enter page addresses in the following format, the site works. http://localhost/index.php?page=page  Obviously my pretty url is broken.  But this is set up only in .htaccess, as I remember it, and nothing has changed there.


QUESTION: is there a WAMP limitation or  peculiarity that  people know about which may be causing this? Again, I can work around this, but I don't want to import a problem back into my life site.
Many thanks. Andrew

I've seen both problems on PC installed sites, module manager needs an fopen thing to work and most likely it will work on the production server, try it on a module, the pretty URL has a tendency to not work maybe because windows doesn't recognize a .htaccess file for what it is...

I just tested it on my XAMPP install and no pretty URLs don't work, but my Module manager does work...

Thanks mate.  Looks like my host will give me some space to play with.  This might help with the problem.

I use WAMP and have no problems with Module Manager and pretty URLs with .htaccess.

Make sure your WAMP Apache has mod_rewrite enabled and make sure your php.ini file has large enough settings for memory_limit, max_execution_time, post_max_size and upload_max_filesize.

Also, check the paths in your rewritebase in your .htaccess file, as you should have CMSMS in a sub directory, not the root directory.

Nullig

OK, I stand corrected, pretty URLs do work, I just had to be smart enough to remember to use...

#Sub-dir e.g: /cmsms
RewriteBase /myfolder