Hi -

I have a test website that I developed using Ryan Irelan’s tutorial. The site works as spec’d. When I try to follow the instructions to rename index.php to mynewindex, I can’t get it to work. This is all being done on a local installion of apache 2.2 and php 5.

All the links just cause apache to output errors like:

“The requested URL /mynewindex/news_articles/view/sample_news_article/ was not found on this server”

I literally just copied:

<Files mynewindex>
AcceptPathInfo on
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>

to a new .htaccess in my website root, and then followed the instructions to use the EE control panel to change the direcotires for my sites index page to mynewindex. I also renamed the index.php under my site directory to mynewindex (it also failed when it was index.php). I did not rename the control panel index.php.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Larry Lewis

Solved! Had to use the second form for .htaccess file in the Installation and Update Instructions->Renaming Main Site File documentation:

<Files mynewindex>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

I used the first form - didn’t read it carefully.

Had the same problem. I was about to post a new thread on it. Thanks for clarifying Lel4866. I think sometimes we all have problems reading instructions correctly.