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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.

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

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.

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..?

Here is the resulting page from the news item:

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

@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.

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

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.

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...