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Hi all.

In my site I’ve set “Site” as the default template group and created index.php. This works just fine as the site homepage. However any other files in that template group - test.php, blog.rss, etc. - don’t work as expected. They only work if visiting domain.com/site/blog.rss. To wit:

Fails:
http://lesliehalleck.secondbridge.com/test

Works:
http://lesliehalleck.secondbridge.com/site/test

Both Work:
http://lesliehalleck.secondbridge.com/site/index
http://lesliehalleck.secondbridge.com/

All other template groups behave normally.

A couple of notes:
- I recently moved the site to a different directory on my host. I believe I updated all the paths correctly, but I’m wondering if I missed something
- I also recently switched the default group from “Home” to “Site”.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

However any other files in that template group - test.php

Are you saving your templates as files on the server? If so they shouldn’t end with a .php extension. They should be .html files.

I just took a look at your site and everything seems to work fine without having to include /site/ in the path. Did you resolve this issue?

Do you have a catalogue called “test” in your root-html-folder?
This will screw things up a bit 😊

/patrick

I appreciate the replies.

I’m not saving them as files on the server - using Mountee. All other files in other groups are saved with a .php extension and are working just fine. It’s purely the Default Group that won’t access it’s files directly.

The pages linked above working for you? I just checked and got a 404. I changed the name of the “Test” file but still no avail:

Fails (throws a 404):
http://lesliehalleck.secondbridge.com/not_a_test

Works (simple text page):
http://lesliehalleck.secondbridge.com/site/not_a_test

It’s my understanding that both should show the same thing. The index.php does just that:

Site (Default Template Group)
    - index.php (works)
    - blog.rss (fails)
    - articles.rss (fails)
    - not_a_test.php (fails)

Thoughts?

Have you created the template via mountee?
Did you check in the CP that they actually exists, and that the name there is without the .php

/patrick

Yep. Everything is there and functioning normally.

Where are the templates for the /about and /classes pages stored?

Just a question I actually can not help you with - there’s nothing in your .htaccess that screws this?

Not that I’m aware of. I haven’t modified it beyond what’s suggested in the user guide.

The weird thing is, I’ve gotten other sites working just fine. This one is the only bugger.

Your templates for the /about and /classes pages work as expected. Where are they located?

In the About and Classes groups respectively. All the other template groups are working just fine.

Ok lets take a look at something else. Go here: Design > Templates > Template Preferences

Where it says Enable Strict URLs, what is that set to?

“Enable Strict URLs” is set to “Yes”  (under Global Template Prefs)

You need to set it to “no” an I think that will fix your issue.

Bingo! That did it. Thanks so much.  Just read up on that in the documentation and now I understand what was going on.

Thanks again!