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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?

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

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).

rotezecke wrote: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.

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