I’m working on a site whose homepage is displaying different depending on how you get there.

I’ve got a template group called “home”, and I’ve designated its “index” template to be the site’s homepage. And if you go to the site’s domain—sorry, it’s still under development, so I can’t share—the template is rendered, but incorrectly. For example, certain sub-templates and custom global variables don’t render correctly.

However, if you type in the specific template path—e.g., http://mydomain.com/home as opposed to just http://mydomain.com/—then everything looks fine.

It’s almost as if going to the domain by itself (minus the “home” template group) pulls up an older version of the homepage template.

FWIW, this site is using the MSM. I don’t know if that might have anything to do with it, but I thought I’d throw it out there.

It’s really very hard to say without seeing for ourselves. Did you make “home” the default template group? Also, what version and build are you on?

I’ll see if I can get clearance to show the URL.

Yes, the “home” group is the default template group. As version and build, I’m using ExpressionEngine 1.6.3 and 20080421 (I know, I know… I need to upgrade ).

How about posting the contents of your second site’s path.php file?

It might have something to do with your problems.

You can click on MSG beneath my avatar to send me a message.

Please remember to reference this thread so I can check it.

Just sent you a PM.

Got it, looking at it now.

One thing I noticed is that there were blanks in the path.php file.

I tend to fill out every row when it comes to the MSM.

What happens if you fill out these two rows?

$template_group = “”;
$template = “”;

Okay, I made the following updates:

But the issue still persists.

OK, is this the same site you’re having problems with in your other thread?

Were you able to update it?

Yes, it’s the same site. I realized, after the two threads came into being, that things might be a little confusing. If you want to condense them into a single thread, that’s fine by me.

And no, I haven’t had a chance to upgrade yet. I’m waiting on our I.T. department.

Just keep us in the loop Thanks.

Looks like upgrading to 1.6.4 did the trick (crosses fingers). Both the “home” and non-“home” URLs are now displaying the same content. Thanks for the help.

Very good I’ll go ahead and close this one (keeping fingers crossed as well). If it comes back, or anything else comes up, simply start a new thread (referencing this one, if necessary). Thanks.