Hi - I’ve installed EE commercial 1.6.9 and added the (unsupported) LG .htaccess Generator v1.0.0. Everything was working fine until I added a new Template Group for the first time after installing LG .htaccess Generator.

Adding the new Template Group caused the LG .htaccess Generator to run and update the .htaccess file (as it should). However, that eliminated the below two custom additions I’d made to the .htaccess file as described in http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/:

# During build - redirect root to static index page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule $ http://www.voximate.com/index.html [R=302,L] 

# Fix queries for actions, urls and css in EE
# From http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/
# NOTE: THIS MUST BE HERE, NOT AT END OF FILE, TO SUCCEED.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(ACT=.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(URL=.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(CSS=.*)$ [NC]   
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php\?&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Realizing the problem, as a temporary workaround, I downloaded the updated .htaccess file and manually added the above code back in. This caused the placeholder index.html to work as it had before. But oddly, the style sheet links didn’t seem to resume working; I still had to hardcode the path to the style sheets in my EE templates as a workaround.

Here’s what I’m trying to accomplish: 1) have a temporary index.html while I’m building my blog 2) use LG .htaccess Generator to eliminate index.php/ from the URLs 3) have my actions, urls and css work (which I believe requires the “Fix queries for actions, urls and css in EE” (but I could be wrong)

How do I accomplish that?

Will sticking the two custom rules at the very top of the .htaccess file, prior to this line:

– LG .htaccess Generator Start –

… cause them both to work and not be overwritten when LG .htaccess Generator is triggered?

Sorry for the newbie question; I’m not an .htaccess or PHP hacker by trade.

Thanks for any insight,

EE Newbie

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