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Submitted by chiquita on Thu, 2006-12-14 01:00 in

I haven't done anything to the site and now all my links are 404. The feeds are either csv or txt and I havent import any new feeds since Nov. Can anyone help me? I dont even know where to start?

Submitted by multiz on Thu, 2006-12-14 03:24

What's your site URL?
Is your .htaccess file working?

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Submitted by support on Thu, 2006-12-14 08:24

Hi,

Yes - this is to do with your mod_rewrite / .htaccess (i've just had a look at your site)

Firstly, check that the file is still there. As you say you have not made any changes to your site I would imagine that it will be there, but for some other reason is no longer being used. You might want to upload it again - so just to recap how it is done, copy htaccess.txt from the distribution to .htaccess and then upload it to your site.

Most likely however, is that your host will have made a change to the configuration of their server that means that customer's .htaccess files are no longer being used (possibly accidentally). Therefore, the first thing you should do is contact your host and explain that mod_rewrite has suddenly stopped working on your account; as your .htaccess file is being ignored.

I've just checked the non-rewrite URLs on your site and they work fine, so you will be able to see everything again by turning off rewrite in your config.php as follows...

  $config_useRewrite = false;

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
David.

Submitted by chiquita on Thu, 2006-12-14 19:05

TYVM! For some reason my .htaccess was empty. My hosting company just played dumb (grrrrrrrrrrr!)

Site is working fine now: www.queenofcheap.com