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Sure there is an easy answer but my searches return no relevant results…
Looking to pass in a variable (grid) to any page which php will pickup and either load/not load a stylesheet.

http://www.domain.com/?grid=1
http://www.domain.com/template_group/?grid=1
http://www.domain.com/template_group/entry/?grid=1

Any ideas? My goal is to show or hide a grid graphic identical to StopDesign:

http://stopdesign.com/
http://stopdesign.com/?g=1

All I get is a generic 404 redirect, not the 404 template I have specified in the template preferences.

My .htaccess has this:

# include method to remove index.php
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond $1 ^(404|work|notebook|about|shop|rss|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

To be sure it’s a .htaccess issue I assume it works if you use http://www.domain.com/index.php?grid=1

Also, not sure but do you have an unneeded ? in the RewriteRule i.e. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Unfortunately no dice.

http://www.domain.com/index.php?grid=1 routes to the 404 page but does process the grid variable and loads the grid stylesheet.

Below is the php code to detect for the grid variable, just incase that helps any:

<?php if(isset($_REQUEST["grid"])){ ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/css/grid.css" />
<?php } ?>

I also have “Enable Strict Urls” set to “yes” with my 404 page as the index of a 404 template group.

In reference to the additional ? in my .htaccess, I found that it solved the path_info variable issue on my host. Without it I get “No input file specified.” when accessing any of my template groups in the url.

Any ideas?

You can load the index page by going to http://www.domain.com/index.php right? You don’t have the 404 template group as the default group?

I’d suggest clearing the .htaccess and getting it to work like that, then add the rules back as there’s nothing wrong with that PHP.

Yes http://www.domain.com/index.php does load the home page. I have a template group “home” with the index.php of that template group as the index of the site.

What do you mean by “clearing the .htaccess and getting it to work like that”? If i empty the .htaccess I still get a 404 route if I go to:

http://www.domain.com/index.php?grid=1