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Hello,

I am using the lasts install of EE with MSM. I recently created my third site. I have one template group with the ‘index’ template and another template called ‘features’. If you go to this link you will see that the index template is working correctly: http://www.leanoutprogram.com/site/

But, when you go to this link I get a 404 page: http://www.leanoutprogram.com/site/features

Any thoughts on how to make it so that the page is showing correctly?

Do you have an .htaccess file setup for that site?  I note the error message mentions /index.php.

Yes this is what I have:

<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>

If you remove that does the site work?

Yes the site works with out the .htaccess file. The error message changes to “The requested URL /site/features was not found on this server.”

But you said you have a “features” template in your site group?  So

http://www.leanoutprogram.com/index.php/site/features

Should work without the .htaccess file in place?

I just found that this is working: http://www.leanoutprogram.com/site/?/features

Any thoughts on how to remove the ‘?’ ?

Thank you for the help so far.

I don’t really completely understand everything being done in your htaccess file, but it seems as though the “?” is being added in by the htaccess rewrite rule itself, even though it notes it is supposed to be removing index.php.  The ? winds up right where index.php would be natively in the URL.

Here’s the section of my htaccess file that I use to remove index.php (see this thread for the full post on the topic):

# Redirect index.php Requests
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/NAME_OF_YOUR_SYSTEM_FOLDER_HERE/.*
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]

# Standard ExpressionEngine Rewrite
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond $1 !\.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Notice the last line of each grouping -

Yours:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Mine:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

My interpretation is that the ? is actually being inserted by your htaccess rewrite rule.  If you remove it from that last line, you may be back in business.  I’m not an htaccess expert - I’m just using what I’ve learned from Nick Benson and others in the community and noticing what’s different between what works for me and what you’re trying to use and you say isn’t behaving as expected.

Let me know if that helps.

Cheers.