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I followed http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/general/remove_index.php.html,  have Apache 2.x and Mod Rewrite and have added the .htaccess lines,  set name of my site’s index page to be blank.

We get an apache error message in the log;

File does not exist: /var/www/html/abcd/consultancy, referer: http://www.abcd.co.uk/consultancy/

where consultancy is a channel and abcd is the root directory for the ee files.

Any help or redirection to another thread welcome (I’ve looked) !

Hi groberts2001 and welcome to the forums 😊

where consultancy is a channel and abcd is the root directory for the ee files.

I realise that consultancy can be a Channel also but in the case of a UR it must be a template group or template.

Can you confirm that consultancy is a template_group?

Do you have a physical directory called consultancy in your root?

Does your htaccess work as intended or is your only issue here the logged error message?

Hello John,

Consultancy is a template group,  but the path to the ‘consultancy’ directory is;

system/expressionengine/templates/default_site/consultancy.group,

Should it be somewhere else ?

My issue is that .htaccess does not seem to be working.

Thanks for considering my problem.

Jon Roberts

Jon,

Should it be somewhere else ?

No that is fine and has no bearing on the URL

My issue is that .htaccess does not seem to be working.

What happens when you visit the http://www.abcd.co.uk/consultancy/ page?
Do you get a browser error or a blank page?

Nevermind the log error for now

What hosting are you using?

Have you got a link to your website?

John,

Thanks again for considering this issue;

The site is http://www.find-a-cottage.co.uk with the basic authentication of alison / summer.

Its hosted on a dedicated Centos server, using EE 2.2.1.

http://www.find-a-cottage.co.uk/consultancy

gets the response

Not Found

The requested URL /consultancy was not found on this server.

It should look like http://www.find-a-cottage.co.uk/index.php/consultancy

.htaccess is

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

Hi, groberts2001 -

I played around with your URL and found it worked if I did this:

http://www.find-a-cottage.co.uk/?/consultancy

So, can you try adding a question mark after index.php in your .htaccess, and see if that fixes this issue up?

Thanks!

Lisa and John,

I’ve fixed it now,  by moving the .htaccess lines into the Apache 2 config file,  httpd-vhosts.conf.  it worked without the ‘?’.

I was locked out of the system console for a while until I addded a line

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/xyz_system

which I guess means,  ‘don’t rewrite urls ending in xyz_system’

Many thanks for your support,  I’m impressed and pleased.

Jon

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
                RewriteEngine On
                RewriteLogLevel 5
                # Removes index.php
                RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png|css|js)$ [NC]
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/xyz_system
                RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
                # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
                # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

Glad things are working again.. If anything else comes up, please do let us know in a new thread..