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Pretty URLs problem

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Hi,
I'm a newbie to Concrete5 and have done my first install today after viewing many videos and reading up on how it all works.
I installed the 'blank' theme and started a new theme based on a site I had already developed. Everything was going fine and looking good, I had a couple of editable areas working as well.
I decided to have a look in the 'systems' area and saw the 'pretty urls' link. I wanted that for the site so I enabled it....bad move obviously!
I now cannot access my site it comes up with a 403 error. I've read a few things on the forum, but not having any luck with being able to get back into the admin area.

Any ideas?
anete
 
juliandale replied on at Permalink Reply
juliandale
The Pretty URL setting adds some code within the .htaccess file that should be in the root directory of your website hosting. Take a backup copy of that .htaccess file, then just remove it from the server. That should allow you to use the site again, but if not, edit the .htaccess file within Notepad and remove the code that looks like this:

# -- concrete5 urls start --
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.php !-f
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# -- concrete5 urls end --
anete replied on at Permalink Reply
anete
Thank you SO MUCH...that worked.
I will be wary about the system settings and will need to read about how to activate the Pretty URL's!!