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I use Dreamhost and as far as I can tell they don’t support the “path_info” variable, which means I have to use the “Force Query String” setting in EE.  In this knowledge base article it says Forced Query Strings aren’t ideal but can someone explain to me why it’s not ideal?  Are there any drawbacks to running a site that way?  Thanks!

I think the author of that kb article just means that it’s not the first choice in a default EE install.  From my understanding, the only drawback is pure aesthetics.  I’ve been running a site on a server (well, was…finally convinced the client to switch hosts but not for anything related to query strings) that didn’t have URL segment support.  Everything seems to work as it should.  I used .htaccess to remove the index.php? anyway so it ended up not mattering one bit.

Could you show the htaccess code you used to remove the index.php?  from the address?  Is it the same code used to take out index.php but with the “?” added to it?

Is it the same code used to take out index.php but with the “?” added to it?

Yes, exactly.  I used the .htaccess instructions in the related wiki article but added a “?” to the end of the redirect directive.

For the site in question, I used the “include” method (instructions in that wiki article), but I don’t think that is relevant to this working.

HTH