Inconsistent URLs [solved]

[douglas1438]

Hi all,

After spending ages setting up my htaccess file with a lot of help from this forum I now have a link problem, my top level links show as:

"http://www.domain.com/?page=eating-drinking

In the address bar despite showing as a pretty URL link in the menu, next levels down show as pretty URLs in menu and address bar.

I realize the URL is valid and part of CMS MS and I should implement canonical urls but why are the top level addresses different to the next level down?

[velden]

Must be because of rewrite rules in .htaccess I suppose. Post the relevant part of it here.

[rotezecke]

wild guess:
your pretty url is something like "domain.com/food/" and you actually have a directory named "food",
default htaccess settings of cmsms would catch this via an exclusion rule and not redirect. however, "domain.com/food/organic/" still works (unless that directory exists, too).

[velden]

wild guess:
your pretty url is something like "domain.com/food/" and you actually have a directory named "food",
default htaccess settings of cmsms would catch this via an exclusion rule and not redirect. however, "domain.com/food/organic/" still works (unless that directory exists, too).

Guess not; if the browser shows a different url in the address bar then the one that is linked to in the menu (if I understand the OP) I'd guess a erroneous redirection in .htaccess.

OR the directory exists as rotezecke writes AND has it's own .htaccess with rewriterules.

[douglas1438]

It appears the problem was with site caching locally. So couldn't see updates to .htaccess