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We built the site on a collocated dev server running 5.2.1, and now that we are moving it over to the clients hosting (godaddy) it is running on 5.1.4

The problem here is that the url’s only work with query_string (?) and not path_info. I have changed index.php to qtype = 2, and done a find replace to get allot of the hardcoded url’s to use “?” instead of just a slash, but the forum and places using solespace’s User module are broken still. The forum still insists on using path_info I guess.

I was under the impression PHP 5.anything would not have these issues on linux hosting. Especially the character issues. What can I do? I really think this should be working even on 5.1.4, so maybe I am missing some config options?

Also should note that while system parts of ee are using query mode (index.php?), like logging in and out, in the templates {path=news/today} would still return index.php/news/today (instead of index.php?news/today)

We have been discussing this on IRC (freenode #expressionengine), and apparently the php version should be supporting this…

I am still stumped on how to get this to work. I need help either getting all the dynamic EE generated links to use query mode, or get ee working with my pretty urls like normal.

Hi, Ben - GoDaddy does, indeed, require the query string.  This isn’t a PHP version issue, but a web-server issue.  You can read about it in this kb entry.

You need to update your URLs to all use the question mark. For the forum, this is done in the default preferences.  For anything using path= statements, the force query string option to “on” should work.  Any other hard-coded paths you’ll need to update manually.

Thanks Lisa, question though. Is there some place in the admin to change this as well? I have updated index.php, but still looking for any other places to set this.

Yes, in Output and Debugging - turn Force Query Strings to on.

Thanks much 😊

Now I remember that place… Had to do this before a long time ago on a windows server. gah.

That’s also mentioned in the KB article linked above.  Glad you got it working!