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Not that I am aware of. In fact at the present time we use .asp and .aspx pages all the time with a ? such as this: http://www.tscpl.org/publicnews/templates/newgallery.aspx?articleid=5173&zoneid=162

I guess maybe I don’t understand the question.

She’s asking why it’s a problem for you to run ExpressionEngine with the ? in URLs.  It’s a perfectly acceptable way to run it, and on Windows server environments, I don’t think you’ll find a product that will be able to get around this.  It’s a server level issue, not an application problem, and is just something that doesn’t have any reliable solutions for IIS environments.

Sue’s suggesting that the path_info isn’t required to work- it’s just required if you want to avoid having the ? in your urls.  If you’re fine with it being there, we should be able to work around it.

The first step in doing it- using the ? string- is to go into ‘Admin- System Prefs- Output and Debugging’ and turn ‘Show query strings’ to ‘on’.  Now your urls will automatically have the required ? in them.

If the pages are still not showing correctly- always showing the info on the main page or a 404- then ftp in, grab the index.php file- the one ABOVE the system folder, not the one inside- open it up in an editor.

Look for:

// URI Type
// This variable allows you to hard-code the URI type.
// For most servers, 0 works fine.
// 0 = auto  
// 1 = path_info  
// 2 = query_string

$qtype = 0;

Try switching the qtype form 0 to 2.  See if things work.  If not- you can try 1.  But 2 is the most likely option.

Make sense?  At that point- you don’t need support for the path_info.

Actually the problem that I am having is that the blog posts are not showing up. Everything else renders see these screen shots:

http://www.tscpl.org/cphome.jpg

Is the screen shot of my control panel notice that my posts are showing up in the Most Recent Weblog Entries section but not in the Site Statistics section. In this example:

http://www.tscpl.org/main.jpg

I viewed a rendered Template and this is what shows up. It shows everything but the posts and the total entry statistics are still setting at 0.

I have this set to Force URL Query Strings and $qtype is set at 1. Set at 0 or 2 it will not render the template but does write this part of the template: The name of my weblog is Getting Started Tutorial

The posts however do not show up.

Hi, Michael—

Can you send a private message to me including Superadmin ID and Password, and URL to the CP?  I’ll go have a look.

Thank you.

Hi, Michael.  I am currently looking into this. I can confirm that something odd is up. I’ll keep you updated =)

Thank you.

michaelTSCPL - I went and looked at your templates, and added a template for testing.

What I found out was that the query module was working, but the weblog module just wasn’t.

There is something really weird going on here.

I’d recommend backing up your database, and reupload the contents of your system folder, except for your config.php file(s). Then try again to see if things display correctly.

Or I’d even consider starting over with a new install.

Ok well I reinstalled EE, reinstalled MySQL and all is right in the world. Everything seems to be working now. Thanks for all of your assistance.

Whew. That was a weird one. We’re glad it’s all up and running now.

On the install does it pull anything outside the folders (like the expression engine site)? When I originally installed this the server was behind a firewall and only accessible inside the building. Also the first time I used MySQL 5. I went down to 4.1 (or whatever it was) on this one. Either way it is working…now I just have to set up templates 😊

On the install does it pull anything outside the folders (like the expression engine site)?

No, it only pulls from your folders on your server. Nothing outside of that.

It might have been an upload issue when you initially uploaded the files. But instead of finding out which one was borked, it’s a lot easier to start from scratch. On an almost new install, that is.

Thank you, Sue and Michael.

That was indeed an odd problem, I’m happy a new install fixed it up. =)  You had some theme problems as well (an old default theme and missing the template images) - so hopefully the new install has fixed those?

Yes it has fixed all of the issues…and I appreciate all of your time on this.

Not a worry, Michael.  I honestly have never seen that behavior before, so it was a really tough one, and I’m still baffled. =)  I’m glad a new install fixed it up, and that was an option. =)