404 Page showing instead of Homepage

Odd one- is it still giving you trouble? I’d take out the htaccess while debugging. And triple check that the ‘home’ group is set as your default. Then I’d see if it comes up with just index.php in there- i.e., qa.domain.com/index.php.

I also find it really useful to turn template debugging and output profiling on. In 2.x, that’s ‘Admin- System Admin- Output and Debug’. You can see what EE thinks the template should be and why. For example, you can see how it’s parsing the url and the actual query used to go fetch the template:

SELECT `exp_templates`.*, `exp_template_groups`.`group_name`
FROM (`exp_templates`)
JOIN `exp_template_groups` ON `exp_template_groups`.`group_id` = `exp_templates`.`group_id`
WHERE `exp_template_groups`.`site_id` =  '1'
AND `exp_templates`.`template_name` =  'index'
AND `exp_template_groups`.`is_site_default` =  'y'
#APP/libraries/Template.php L:2389  EE_Template::fetch_template()

That’s often enough of a hint to spot what’s going on.

Yep still have the issue. I have “home” set as my Default Group with that only thing in that group is an index page. I even created a new group called “new” with a new index page with very basic html structure and it still defaults to my 404 group.

I have removed the .htaccess file.

Thanks for the debugging suggestion I’ll look through that and see. If not I’ll blow out my QA instance and start from scratch a rebuild is about to start anyways…

Thanks for the suggestions!

It’s got to be something both quirky and simple. Watch out for the existence of an index.html/index.htm type file too. Those will load as default in most cases. But- shouldn’t 404.

Hopefully you’ll spot it quickly once you look at the debug.