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    hmm could then be because no domain is associated. I’ve done it that way though in the past and it’s worked, and usually I would add the folder name since I’m not building in the root since there is no domain. Not sure why it’s not working for you.

    Hopefully someone else will come along who has a better idea of what’s going on
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      what’s next logical troubleshooting step?
        jealousy<>love
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        now, cannot even get logon screen for manager. getting 404.
        i see the ht.access in my ftp was not changed to .htaccess, even tho i did name change in modx manager yesterday.
          jealousy<>love
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          help!
            jealousy<>love
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            correction, getting a 500 error trying to browse to site or manager
              jealousy<>love
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              Ok just relax a little smiley

              500 error sounds like your .htaccess is messed up. You can start by copy and pasting that here. Paste your page template here too if you can.

              Are you using the <base href="" /> tag in your <head></head> section?
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                thanks cool

                i renamed htaccess to ht.access, and now i can get in. weird, the renaming did not seem to take before.


                anyhoo, here’s my head. got this by viewing page source of homepage:
                <head>
                <title>Bayview Footprints - Home</title>
                <base href="http://silverlake.flexihostings.net/~bayviewf/modx2/" />
                </head>


                here’s my htaccess:
                text/x-generic ht.access
                ASCII English text

                # MODx supports Friendly URLs via this .htaccess file. You must serve web
                # pages via Apache with mod_rewrite to use this functionality, and you must
                # change the file name from ht.access to .htaccess.
                #
                # Make sure RewriteBase points to the directory where you installed MODx.
                # E.g., "/modx" if your installation is in a "modx" subdirectory.
                #
                # You may choose to make your URLs non-case-sensitive by adding a NC directive
                # to your rule: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

                RewriteEngine On
                RewriteBase modx2/



                # Rewrite www.domain.com -> domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
                #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
                #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
                #RewriteRule (.*) http://example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]
                #
                # or for the opposite domain.com -> www.domain.com use the following
                # DO NOT USE BOTH
                #
                #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
                #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
                #RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]



                # Rewrite secure requests properly to prevent SSL cert warnings, e.g. prevent
                # https://www.domain.com when your cert only allows https://secure.domain.com
                #RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443
                #RewriteRule (.*) https://example-domain-please-change.com.com/$1 [R=301,L]



                # The Friendly URLs part
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
                RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]



                # Make sure .htc files are served with the proper MIME type, which is critical # for XP SP2. Un-comment if your host allows htaccess MIME type overrides.

                #AddType text/x-component .htc



                # If your server is not already configured as such, the following directive
                # should be uncommented in order to set PHP’s register_globals option to OFF.
                # This closes a major security hole that is abused by most XSS (cross-site
                # scripting) attacks. For more information: http://php.net/register_globals
                #
                # To verify that this option has been set to OFF, open the Manager and choose
                # Reports -> System Info and then click the phpinfo() link. Do a Find on Page
                # for "register_globals". The Local Value should be OFF. If the Master Value
                # is OFF then you do not need this directive here.
                #
                # IF REGISTER_GLOBALS DIRECTIVE CAUSES 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERRORS :
                #
                # Your server does not allow PHP directives to be set via .htaccess. In that
                # case you must make this change in your php.ini file instead. If you are
                # using a commercial web host, contact the administrators for assistance in
                # doing this. Not all servers allow local php.ini files, and they should
                # include all PHP configurations (not just this one), or you will effectively
                # reset everything to PHP defaults. Consult www.php.net for more detailed
                # information about setting PHP directives.

                #php_flag register_globals Off



                # For servers that support output compression, you should pick up a bit of
                # speed by un-commenting the following lines.

                #php_flag zlib.output_compression On
                #php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5



                # The following directives stop screen flicker in IE on CSS rollovers. If
                # needed, un-comment the following rules. When they’re in place, you may have
                # to do a force-refresh in order to see changes in your designs.

                #ExpiresActive On
                #ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
                #ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
                #ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
                #BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
                #BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
                #BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
                #SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary

                  jealousy<>love
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                  this part is not in the htaccess, just got picked up when i copied from file manager:

                  text/x-generic ht.access
                  ASCII English text
                    jealousy<>love
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                    Your header is ok so let’s tackle your .htaccess file.

                    Change this part:

                    RewriteEngine On
                    RewriteBase modx2/

                    To this:
                    RewriteEngine On
                    RewriteBase /modx2
                    


                    Then rename the file back to .htaccess
                    (note the period ’.’ before the filename, no extension)
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                      ok, made your changes. still getting 404 on pages other than homepage, with furls enabled.
                        jealousy<>love