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EDIT: I’ve posted a Wiki article that covers general problems embedding Flash in EE templates, including the one discussed below.

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Hi,

I’m having a strange problem and have tried everything I can think of. My entire site works perfectly without a query string, except when I try to load Flash. On pages with Flash I have to add the question mark or the Flash won’t load.

Just so this is clear, Flash loads with this URL

<a href="http://mysite.com/index.php?/temp_group/temp">http://mysite.com/index.php?/temp_group/temp</a>

but not this one

<a href="http://mysite.com/index.php/temp_group/temp">http://mysite.com/index.php/temp_group/temp</a>

and the rest of the site works either way.

I’ve tried both relative and absolute paths to the flash files, and loading flash with js and with the object element, it makes no difference. I’ve stripped the flash page down to a minimal test case (I can email a link, don’t want to post it here).

Also, I was renaming index.php and removing it with htaccess, but I’ve turned all that off.

I don’t know what else to do. I’m really hoping it’s something dumb that’s just escaping me…any idea what’s going wrong?

Here’s my config:

EE 1.6.4
Build: 20080808
PHP Version 5.2.5
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix)

Are you using relative URLs for or within your flash?  If so, they will not resolve properly because to your browser, ‘temp_group’ and ‘temp’ look just like physical directories.  You should be able to get the Flash functioning by referencing it with absolute URLs, and if the Flash references local resources, they will also need to use absolute URLs.

Ah, that’s what it was—my FLV player skin had a relative URL. I’m surprised I didn’t find this in the wiki. Maybe I missed something, but if it’s not there I’ll add it. (EDIT: wiki article is here)

Thanks for the quick response—as always!

Well the symptoms are a little different, as you associated it with the fact that the query string fixed it - but it should also have worked on the site’s main index page as well.  If the FLV player isn’t on your main home page, then you wouldn’t have noticed.  We have a KB article that is related for images not showing up, but again, I don’t think you would have caught it considering your symptoms, so wiki away! :-D