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Don’t know how to put it in better words but what happens is the following and likely related to the problems I had before with the URL and path setting. And this post has actually 2 what I think related questions.

1
I have a static html+CSS working at my homepage (hp) http://www.carelse.com
I have inside that page links pointing to other pages which I made by using a new template group and their corresponding index.php file (which EE generates automatically). Links do not work. I have tried with and without the

{site_url}

tag.

2
when I go to http://www.carelse.com with the browser the page loads. When I edit that same page through the control panel and press “view…” I am directed to http://carelse.pmhclients.com/site/index/ and get an error…
Not Found
The requested URL /site/index/ was not found on this server.

3
Then I followed Ryan Irelan’s (excellent) screencast to get a news entry load on my hp. All tags triple checked but the result is I see these tags come back on my page but no parsed content. Weird thing is, the opening tag

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" limit="1"}

is not included…

So my thinking says EE begins to read the code correctly but then can’t find the weblog “news”...

Any help on this?

For #1- I think your paths need to look like:
http://www.carelse.com/index.php/jeroen/photography/  That pulls something up, and I think it’s correct.  You have a template grouop called jeroen and a template in that called photography- and that’s where the orange type style is?  That would be my take on it.

To link it from the main page- what happens if you use {path=jeroen/photography}?  And if you JUST put {site_url} all by itself on the main page- what’s it render as?

Triple check in ‘Admin- System Prefs- General Prefs’- are all urls specified using http://www.carelse.com/ in them?

For #1- I think your paths need to look like:
http://www.carelse.com/index.php/jeroen/photography/  That pulls something up, and I think it’s correct.  You have a template grouop called jeroen and a template in that called photography- and that’s where the orange type style is?  That would be my take on it.

I made those links now as you suggested

To link it from the main page- what happens if you use {path=jeroen/photography}?  And if you JUST put {site_url} all by itself on the main page- what’s it render as?

This I do not quiet understand (yet)
You mean instead of a hard-link like above I use a? tag {path=jeroen/photography}
I will try that if the below is resolved 😊

Triple check in ‘Admin- System Prefs- General Prefs’- are all urls specified using http://www.carelse.com/ in them?

Thanks I did and now I am back with the
To proceed to the URL you have requested, click the link below:
http://www.carelse.com/index.php/site/index

Before I made the change it worked but I had to use http://carelse.pmhclients.com/

Let’s get all the links working- then worry with the ‘click to proceed’ bit.  It’s on EngineHosting, so we don’t have to worry about the server being goofy.  So- let’s hold the ‘click’ bit for last.  Get everything else working- then hit it.

Done
home page has the links (full url) like you suggested and the following 3 as well

jeroen
jeroen/photography
jeroen/garden/

This works now all directions. So I can make that work for all the other pages as well

Next step?

Yep- get them all set using ‘path’- it’s a global and will use your system preferences to construct a url based on the template group and template you specify.  Use it (typically) outside of other tags.  Once we can navigate everywhere ok and all that looks good- we’ll revisit the link redirects.

works like a dream!

1 more small detail so you know. I edit the pages with Textmate + Expanddrive and not with the CP-> Edit Template. Only the initial creation of the e.g. jeroen/photography/index.php page is done through CP->Edit Template

all links with {path…} are working

What’s the next step?
If we reach the point where the URL problem is resolved I will try to continue to build the site further with the aid of the various books/screencasts I have (bought).

Woot!  OK- glad this bit is looking good.  We’ve still got the ‘click thru’ issue going in another thread, so we’ll leave that along.

I think you’re ok to go ahead- nothing odd about saving templates as text files- a lot of the design folks prefer that method.  And running through tutorials is a very good idea.  If you haven’t blazed through the Quickstart tutorial in the docs, it’s worth doing.  Very simple, but will give you a good grasp of the basics.  And the overview of EE urls is one I always recommend when you’re starting out.  Getting how the urls/templates/tags tie together is at the core of mastering EE.

But- we all good on this bit for now?

yes we’re good. This thread can be closed. I continue with the other thread

Very good, and thanks for letting us know. If you need us again, you know where to find us 😊