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We are building our first project with Concrete5. We have created several pages. The navigation looks right at the top of the page, and the site map looks fine, but when I click on the navigation, I get only "page not found" errors.

If I go to the site map, I can click on a page and they are all there. They are just not hooked correctly to the navigation.

How do I fix this?

Thank you,
Joyce

 
BigBobbyD replied on at Permalink Reply
BigBobbyD
Sounds like a problem with "Pretty URLs".

Do you have them enabled? This is in the "Sitewide Settings" area of your dashboard.

If enabled, try disabling them and see if that fixes your problem.

If you want to put them back on, you will need to create a .htaccess file and copy that into the root of your site. There are instructions and the text you need near this switch in the dashboard so it should be fairly straightforward.

If you get stuck, post back here.
vhlwebmaster replied on at Permalink Reply
Yes, I enabled them and did add the code to .htaccess (actually I had a Unix guru do that for me for fear I would screw it up).

Thanks for the clues. I'll go disable them. and see if that makes a difference.

Joyce
vhlwebmaster replied on at Permalink Reply
Magic! I turned off the pretty URLs and now they work! OK, so what does that tell us?

Please seehttp://www.vhl.org/info

Cheers,
Joyce
BigBobbyD replied on at Permalink Reply
BigBobbyD
That tells us there's a problem either with your .htaccess or with your server configuration... It could be something as simple as the location of your .htaccess.

You probably will want to contact either your geek (sorry, guru ;-]) friend or your web-host to help you trouble-shoot.

When I did my first c5 installation, I had the same problem... I had done everything right, but it turns out I had to disable "php fast cgi", so that might be something to ask your host.

You may also want to search the forums and documentation (actually, start with the documenation!) to see if there are any recent posts on the topic that might be relevant to you.

Good luck!