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I developed our new website in EE in a development folder. I moved it to the live staging folder. I can get to the main index template, but all of my links return a 404.

Check out http://milsoft.com/smart-grid/ to see what I’m talking about.

Everything seems to be up and running correctly except the linking issue.

Any ideas? Thanks!

-chad

Hi, Chad. You need to make a few minor changes to EE.

EEKB:// I get 404s except on the main page

Does that help?

Thanks for the quick response. I tried the methods on that page, but things are still not working.

One thing I just thought about, would it be possible for the site to try to interpret the index.php in the url as a folder instead of the php script?

I currently am not using any sort of .htaccess file. Should I be?

Thanks again.

No, you shouldn’t be using an .htaccess to fix this.

If you go to one of your urls and add a ? after it, you’ll see things work.

You need to force query strings.

  In the Control Panel, turn on the “Force Query String” preference in the Output Preferences section.

I have it turned on.

I tried the different variations (0,1,2) of the $qtype variable in the index.php file as described in
the link you gave me.

Still no luck. Sorry for the trouble.

Any other ideas? Thanks again.

Chad, you must not have done something right.

See this link?

http://milsoft.com/smart-grid/index.php?/about-milsoft/about-milsoft/

It works. I added the question mark after index.php.

See the screen shot. Do you have the same thing I show?

Yes, the link works with the question mark. Does this mean that I will need to add a question mark to each of my links? If so, it wasn’t clear to me that that was the fix.

Yes, I have that setting set to ‘yes’ just as your screenshot shows.

You shouldn’t need to.

How are you building the links?

I am using {site_url}index.php/software-solutions to build my links, and changing it accordingly for the other links.

Looking back at the link you posted. It isn’t going to the ‘software solutions’ page. It is just going to the index page.

if you’re using {site_url}index.php, you need to use index.php? instead.

The difference is how you build the links.

Do you have a single entry template you’re using to display the links?

ok. Now things seem to be working better.

I changed the main navigation links, and they seem to work as we would expect them to now.

One thing to note, the $qtype variable in the index.php file HAS to be set to 2.

I’m still new to EE, so I’m not entirely sure what you “single entry template to display the links”. Is there a page I can read to get up to speed? Am I missing out a best practice I should be using?

Thanks again.

Chad:

Good places to do some more reading/learning about EE would definitely be Train EE, and EE Screencasts.  Basically, a “single entry” page is one that only one entry comes up on, eg:  http://example.com/index.php/site/comments/url_title, whereas the multi-entry page would be:  http://example.com/index.php/site

As far as your initial problem, is everything up and running now?

-greg

Thanks for the resources. I’ll check them out.

I believe we are all setup now, thanks to Sue!

I flipped the switch on the new website. We went from http://milsoft.com/index.php?sn=home to http://milsoft.com

Thanks again!

Woot!  I’m glad you got everything sorted!

Congrats on the site launch!  😊

If anything else comes up, please don’t hesitate to start a new thread.

-greg