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Hi.

I have been trying to solve my calendar problem in this post http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 955.0.html, I have done the cache thing and config.php editing and now this is happening. Today I checked my config.php file and it has gone back to reading pretty urls as true. I have rewritten the whole file several times and everytime I view the config.php file after uploading it goes back to pretty urls = true.

In order to fix the calendar I need the file to read pretty urls = false. What is happening here? Does anyone have any ideas please?

Thanks.
Mike.

how are you changing it?... is it  FTP to site, right click file, select view/edit, it opens in an editor, you make changes, save, then FTP client asks if you want to upload changed page,
other way is to... FTP to site, download file to your computer, open saved file, make changes, save, FTP the changed file to site, asks if you want to overwrite existing file, click ok, file overwritten....

the first way you are working with a file in temp folder, sometimes it might not save and upload changes...
second way puts file on you computer, changes are made and saved to a non temporary file, which can be opened and looked at again to insure changes took, then actual file is uploaded to overwrite existing file for sure...

Hi Mark.

mark wrote: how are you changing it?... is it  FTP to site, right click file, select view/edit, it opens in an editor, you make changes, save, then FTP client asks if you want to upload changed page,
other way is to... FTP to site, download file to your computer, open saved file, make changes, save, FTP the changed file to site, asks if you want to overwrite existing file, click ok, file overwritten....

Yes I have tried all these various routes, but after uploading it seems to default to "true".

Strangely though, I have a test site setup on my server for testing new modules before I put them on the church site, just in case, and it works OK on that site. It even put a css sheet in place. Something that does not happen on the church site?

I have even tried logging into my server control panel and editing the file there, but with same results.
I have now taken the whole thing off the church site and will try a complete new install in the hope of making it work.

But I am at a loss as to why the config.php file does this. Never had a problem when it was CMSMS v 12.

Regards.
Mike.

I had a similar problem to this once when my hosting service moved my site to a different server. One DNS server did not update the other did, resulting in a random chance that you got the correct server when doing ftp. Try a tracert to the DNS servers and your site for abnormalities.

I happened to hit this by chance while searching for something else. By chance is the file set to read only on the server, and thus your not really overwriting the config.php file?

I had a similar problem where I couldn't get changes to the config file to stick. Then I remembered one of the last statements in the install instructions that said to set the permissions on the file to 444 - which gives no one write access. 

Could this be your problem?