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Hi, I can't believe this hasn't been asked before but my search proved fruitless. On my page properties, on the page paths and location tab, the "canonical URL" ishttp://www.stainedonline.com/us (apparently). But when I navigate to that I get a 404 error (unformatted). Hmmm? I also don't get why it listed just the name of that page without any kind of extension, as if it were some type of folder in the site directory?

I can get to the page if I go to /index.php/us. Why the difference?

Really, I my goal is to be able to navigate around my site using traditional looking URLs. I remember somebody on here had accomplished that without Pretty URLs. Is there someplace I can read the details of that?

Once again, thank you so much for reading.

neptune
 
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
sounds like you don't have pretty URLs on. Goto your dashboard an enable them, and also copy that htaccess code to your webservers directory then the /us url should work in addition to index.php/us

regarding extensions, that's pretty common in middleware these days.
neptune replied on at Permalink Reply
neptune
Thanks Frz! I took the code (line returns and all) out of the dashboard, threw it in a plain text file, named it .htaccess, and put it in the same directory that has my concrete5 installation. I have a shared web host. Does all that add up so far? It's not working though, I must have left something out..
kutis replied on at Permalink Reply
kutis
some hosts don't allow htaccess and/or only allows limited functionality of the htaccess
neptune replied on at Permalink Reply
neptune
Now pretty URLs may be working, but not as intended. When I go tohttp://www.stainedonline.com/us it brings up index.php not the "us" page. Something within c5?