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So, I’m brand new to EE and here’s my first question:

<li id="work"><a href="http://{path=web/work}">Work</a></li>
<li id="about"><a href="http://{path=web/about}">About</a></li>
<li id="weblog"><a href="http://{path=web/blog}">Weblog</a></li>
<li id="contact"><a href="http://{path=web/contact}">Contact</a></li>

The page links on my primary navigation are not working.  The URL changes to show the appropriate path, but the index page loads instead.  What am I missing?  Thanks!

That sounds like EE’s 404 behavior kicking in - what are your rendered links looking like?

Do you have a template group named web, with templates named work, about, blog and contact?

Yep.. template group “web”, templates “index, work, about, blog, contact”.

It just keeps loading the index page(template).  URL changes though. (ex: http://www.sitename/index.php/web/blog/)

OK - load the page and do a view source in the browser.  Let’s see what the rendered code looks like.

Oh..and also go to a template in the EE CP, and click a “view” link from there.  What URL does the template load with then?

It continues to load the index page (though showing the correct template URL), even from there.

I tried turning on “Force URL query strings” and the pages now load, but the links for the stylesheet etc. are broken, and it doesn’t recognize the EE tags.  Just raw HTML.

Sorry.. I missed post #3… here are the rendered links.  (the site is in subdirectory “ee”).

<ul class=“navbar”>
<li id=“home”>Home</li>
<li id=“work”>Work</li>
<li id=“about”>About</li>
<li id=“weblog”>Weblog</li>
<li id=“contact”>Contact</li>
</ul>

That’s starting to sound like an issue with the host.

Where are you hosted?

You might try the Server Wizard to see if the environment is setup correctly for EE.

Thanks.  Ran the wizard… “URL Segment Support” is unsupported.  It’s a suggested feature, but I’m guessing this is the problem?

Hosting with Siteground.  (who I’ve been loyal to for years, until now.. ha)

Hmm..did you find this kb entry earlier?

I got Siteground to enable the “path_info” variable, but still no luck.  So I enabled “Force URL query strings” again, and changed the $qtype variable in the index.php file like the kb article suggested, and now we’re in business.

Thanks for your help Michael!  Also for your tutorials… I’ve been referencing them quite a bit.  Gary

Cool…glad to hear you’re up and going…