Template URL not found, what am I doing wrong?
How Do I?
Firstly, I’m an absolute newcomer to EE. We’ve just taken an existing customer’s v3 site, and upgraded it to v7. It mostly works, but one odd thing is that there are some link icons on the page, which should navigate to other templates within the site. For example
<site domain>/reports
I see that there is a ‘reports’ template group with an index page, but that URL returns ‘not found’
If I could get some quick answers on what could be causing this, I would appreciate it. We’re under a bit of pressure to get this working quickly.
Do you have an index.html inside of your reports.group folder? And can you share your folder structure inside of your templates?
Sure. The folder structure is
/var/www/html/wtcore/user/templates/default_site/reports.group
There is an index.html within this folder
Interesting that if I create a brand new template group, called ‘test’, I get the same problem.
Do you have a different template path set up? It almost sounds like it’s not reading the templates.
Do you know how the template path is configured. I haven’t changed anything in the config, as this site was simply checked out from a git repo. I may have the directory structure wrong.
If wtcore is your system folder, and default_site is your site name, then you should be good in that regard.
Anything set in Enable template routes? https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/general/system-configuration-overrides.html#enable_template_routes
No there’s nothing in template routes
I don’t really understand how the icon url link of <site domain>/reports would ever return the page though, because it doesn’t exist. Confused.
Can it be the htaccess?
Yes I’ve been looking at .htaccess files, and that was my next question. So at the moment we have this under the httpdocs directory:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://<domain name>/$1 [R,L]
Should the rewrite rule contain the full path to the location of my templates?
Hi Andrewf,
I’m wondering if this is an index.php issue.. and your web request isn’t getting routed correctly… If you add index.php into the url RIGHT after your domain and before the first segment does it then load the page as intended?
If so you likely need to add an htaccess rewrite for index.php
Thanks,
-Tom Jaeger
Yes, thanks, it’s all about the .htaccess rewrite rules. We figured out the regex magic to make it work.