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I am attempting to post 2 new pages to my cmsms installation and they are opening to a 404 error page. I am opening them from the cmsms console using the magnifying glass looking button, not from a web link.

I activated pretty urls (I think) and it caused my news module to have this problem so I removed the news module and I posted my 2 original articles as their own page and it worked fine.

Now I have created 2 more pages for 2 more articles and these pages aren't working but I'm not using a module or anything like that.

I really dont understand what the issue is. I've cleared the cms cache btw. I can't find any documentation on pretty urls or on why this would be causing my pages to direct to a 404 page.

Activating pretty urls needs 2 steps:

(this is voor Apache webserver!):

1. copy htaccess.txt from /doc to the root of CMSMS install (where your config.php exists) AND rename then rename it to .htaccess (so starts with a dot and has no extension).

2. edit your config.php: add/edit line: Then clear cache and try again. If that doesn't work, you did something wrong and/or your hosting provider doesn't support mod_rewrite/htaccess (which I think is rare).