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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
that’s really good of you Stuart (you star!)…that option was already unchecked though….I’m chatting with my web host right now about the files…
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
Mary – yep that’s the one. Thanks.
it’s seeming more like it’s my webhost and hosted server that’s being difficult though….. :(
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
I would say that they don’t allow .htaccess rules which means you may have this problem with other software that requires it. It will mean that you will not be able to use “clean” URLs at all. Give your host hell about it. :) Who are you using anyway?
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
I would say that they don’t allow .htaccess rules which means you may have this problem with other software that requires it. It will mean that you will not be able to use “clean” URLs at all. Give your host hell about it. :) Who are you using anyway?
Webmania
(Who I’ve had a very good opinion about so far…)
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
This is interesting….I’m chatting to the web-host support team and posting on this topic here at the same time!!
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
Yeah, I install new software whilst I’m here. Keeps you occupied. ;) I’m not seeing any info about Webmania here. I wonder if there is anyone else that uses them. Do you have a cPanel or some sort of overall control panel for your site?
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
Stuart – when I log into the webmania site, there is a user admin area incl. MySql Admin…
Update: The Webmania boys have (helpfully) removed not one, but two .htaccess files (diff. directories)…and I’ve tested my site – and it works fine!!
Following your remarks, Stuart, I also took the liberty of asking them why I caouldn’t edit or delete the .htaccess files…and they said it was because they were hidden…so I asked further about if I could edit them using ftp…there only answer was ‘no’. So then I asked – well, does that mean I can only ask the helpdesk to edit or delete these files then? There answer was yes.
So….note for future textpattern users – .htaccess files might need to be deleted – and there needs to be a way of doing that.
Stuart: are clean URLs going to be importnat then…if I don’t have them? winces
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
No they aren’t important. They just look neater. For example yoursite.com/index.php?s=about which is a “messy” URL to go to your about section would simply be yoursite.com/about as a “clean” URL.
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
Right…I see (nods)
And there’s no way of having these for me then?
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
Well I hesitate to suggest this but there is a plug-in which should be able to convert messy to clean. Read the whole thread. Thing is I’ve never used it and I’m no expert with Regex. By all means try it out but if you have problems you will need to post them to that thread.
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
Stuart – I’ll give that a try…sounds like something to keep me out of trouble! :)
Again – thanks for your help…you and Mary.
As I’m a complete newbie with TXP and not shy of asking for help…expect to see me post again at some point!
Of course i’ll check through the previous threads first…hunting the answer…but on this occasion – i just didn’t find anything that matched.
Cheers.
Matt
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
No problem. Glad it’s working for you now. :)
Stuart
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(That other thread about the plug-in is HUGE! What’s the latest version of that?)
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It should still be the top link. It will most likely have been updated when he updates the plug-in.
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Re: Where's my site gone? Index.php vanished
Now you’re going to tell me that the page is empty but it isn’t. Go to “edit” and “select all” then “edit” again and select “copy” then go to your plug-ins page and paste into the little box at the top. Click the button and you will see another page with all the code in it. Scroll to the bottom and click on “Install”. This takes you back to the first page and you will see the plug-in details. On the right click on the word “No” to activate it then click on help for instructions.
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