I've read (I think) all of the posts regarding this but none seem to solve my problem. Here is what I can tell you:


1) Client is on shared hosting with GoDaddy (not helping I'm sure)

2) Without prettyurls everything is working fine.

3) I have 1 clonable template titled 'pages.php'

4) There is clearly a .htaccess file being generated (because the rewrite is happening after updating the config) but I don't know where. It is not being added to the file listing inside of /couch. I have one I have set up previously in the root of the site and it's still there unmodified. I tried using gen_htaccess.php (which for a while was returning a blank page) and ultimately got the output that looked reasonable. I copied the contents and created my own .htaccess in /couch/ which does show up in the file listings although this process of manually adding it didn't help.

5) As soon as I turn on prettyurls the rewrite kicks in but returns a 404 for each page I create in the admin. I'm following the link from the admin to "View" the page, I see it takes me to http://genesissalesevents.com/pages.php?p=13, rewrites the URL and returns a 404.

Here are the contents of my gen_htaccess.php if it helps but again, I can't guarantee this is actually what is being written to a true .htaccess file because I can't find it!

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Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

#If your website is installed in a subfolder, change the line below to reflect the path to the subfolder.
#e.g. for http://www.example.com/subdomain1/subdomain2/ make it RewriteBase /subdomain1/subdomain2
RewriteBase /

#If you wish to use a custom 404 page, place a file named 404.php in your website's root and uncomment the line below.
#If your website is installed in a subfolder, change the line below to reflect the path to the subfolder.
#e.g. for http://www.example.com/subdomain1/subdomain2/ make it ErrorDocument 404 /subdomain1/subdomain2/404.php
#ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

#If your site begins with 'www', uncomment the following two lines
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]


#DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule . - [L]

#pages.php
RewriteRule ^pages$ "$0/" [R=301,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^pages/$ pages.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^pages/.*?([^\.\/]*)\.html$ pages.php?pname=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^pages/([1-2]\d{3})/(?:(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/(?:(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])/)?)?$ pages.php?d=$1$2$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^pages/[^\.]*?([^/\.]*)/$ pages.php?fname=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^pages/[^\.]*?([^/\.]*)$ "$0/" [R=301,L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Thanks for any assistance you can give!
Todd

[cheesypoof]

Hi and welcome toddersbud

The gen_htaccess.php file outputs the contents for the .htaccess file that you must create and place in the website's root directory (not the couch directory, but it's parent). The .htaccess file is not created by Couch. Let me know if this resolves your problem.

That did it! Thanks so much. Just to clarify, if I add another clonable template I'll need to regenerate the htaccess file and throw it in the root, correct?

[cheesypoof]

Yes, that's correct.

Great, thanks again!