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    Hi all,

    I’m currently agonizing through the process of trying to get friendly urls to work on my site. I’m wondering if someone may be able to help me with a couple of the many questions I have.

    My first question concerns the .htaccess file in the manager directory. Should I change anything from the default contents when trying to enable friendly urls? I only ask because I noticed that it says "RewriteEngine off". Should this be set to on?

    Second, when I choose a page in the manager tree and preview it, will it appear in the browser as the friendly url if I’m doing things right? I ask this because, let’s say I’m trying to create a friendly url page at http://mysite.com/mysitepage1.com. As it is now, I can access that page if I type that friendly url into my browser. However, if I access that page via the preview function in the manager, the page still appears as http://mysite.com/index.php?id=2

    As always, all assistance is greatly appreciated!

    - Cris
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      Don’t mess with the .htaccess file in the Manager folder. Only the one in the root affects FURLS.

      As you’ve found, the FURLS don’t show when previewing from the Manager. That’s normal.

      It sounds like you have things working already. smiley
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        Thank you Bob for the assistance!

        - Cris