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I’ve got some funky-ness going on with my pagination links:

They contain pretty standard EE link syntax, my path setting in the weblog are set & normal but the URL is pretty weird. Can anyone troubleshoot this one?

My site is zeerakhan.com and my blog is named weblog:
http://www.zeerakkhan.com/S=959ada04059d42caa53f91e1465ecdc64e437c4b/weblog/P5/

What is this: ‘S=959ada04059d42caa53f91e1465ecdc64e437c4b’ ?

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Hey guys, I just realized this was not the tech support forum, my bad. And I can’t change categories or delete it for that matter. Sorry!

It’s a session id, and as such expected behavior and nothing to worry about. If you don’t want it, switch to using cookies exclusively in your Session & Security Preferences.

Thanks Ingmar. Again sorry for posting in the wrong forum.

You’re totally right about the ID. I switched it back and forth in the CP. But I may eventually need to use session ID. My question is if it’s nothing to worry about why is it going to a 404 page? It was working with ID enabled and not showing it in the URL. What did I do?

Are you removing index.php from your URL? Looks like that’s the issue. It should be something like
http://www.zeerakkhan.com/index.phpS=959ada04059d42caa53f91e1465ecdc64e437c4b/weblog/P5/

Ingmar,

I am removing the index.php via Levy’s .htaccess module. Is removing the index and using pagination mutually incompatible? Like I said, it was working after I removed the index. So it seems like it maybe something else?

Is removing the index and using pagination mutually incompatible?

Not necessarily, not as such, no. I don’t think this is pagination issue.

So it seems like it maybe something else?

You can, of course, try again without removing index.php, but I am prepared to bet the issues lies there.

Ingmar,

It seems you are right. I took the syntax in the .htaccess file out, the code that removes the index.php and flipped the ‘session id and cookies’ option back on in the security section of the CP.

It worked! But my question remains. If the two are mutually compatible how do we make them play nice together?

Here is the .htaccess code from Levy:

# Remove index.php
# Uses the "include method"
# <a href="http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Include_List_Method">http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Include_List_Method</a>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5})$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(site|embeds|weblog|styles|events|right_rail|templates|book|life_energy_process|awakened_sexuality|charity|about|privacy_policy|contact|signup|search|members|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Your rewrite rule only applies in certain cases, and that does not seem to include session ids. Perhaps you might want to take this up with Levi and/or start a new thread in Extensions?

OK, if that is the case, then taking it up with Levi is a good idea. Thank you for your efficient and accurate troubleshooting. You can close the thread.

It’s in “Howto” already, so no worries there 😊