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Posted: 14 June 2012 07:00 PM

[ Ignore ]

Joined: 2002-01-21
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Hi, all - long time member here (I believe I was the first ever customer for pMachine -> ExpressionEngine, back in 2001).

A site that I built a long time ago that runs EE 1.6.9 with MSM (yeah, I know I should upgrade) all of a sudden has all links going to the index page:

http://www.altmuslimah.com

Note that any link you click on just returns to the index page. Nothing was changed when this happened.

What could be the reason for this? Will upgrading to EE 2.X help?

Shane Eckert

Posted: 15 June 2012 03:51 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 1 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

Joined: 2011-11-25
7174 posts

Hello samanullah,

I am sorry to hear you are running into this problem.

Can you check with your provider to see if anything was changed on the server? Maybe an upgrade to PHP or MySQL? A change in configurations?

Are you using a .htaccess file for any reason?

Please let me know.

Cheers,

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samanullah

Posted: 15 June 2012 08:20 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 2 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

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Yes, the site is using a .htaccess file with the following:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.shtml index.html index.htm

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# broken link fixes
RewriteRule ^a$ /index.php [R=301]
RewriteRule ^a/(.*+)$ /index.php/$1 [QSA] 

Shane Eckert

Posted: 18 June 2012 12:43 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 3 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

Joined: 2011-11-25
7174 posts

Hey samanullah,

Can you move the .htaccess file aside for testing? Just want to rule that out.

Did you get a chance to check with your hosting provider? Any changes on their end?

Thank you,

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samanullah

Posted: 18 June 2012 09:05 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 4 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

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I tried it, it didn’t make a difference. The hosting provider has not been helpful. Yesterday I upgraded everything from 1.6.9 to 2.5.2, but no change. I also tried changing the .htaccess file to reflect the code shown in the EE2.5.2 docs, but also didn’t help.

Shane Eckert

Posted: 20 June 2012 12:21 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 5 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

Joined: 2011-11-25
7174 posts

Hi samanullah,

I am sorry I did not catch this before. I just visited your site and it’s a Wordpress site.

Can you double check that? I think you might be on the wrong forum.

Thank you,

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samanullah

Posted: 20 June 2012 09:57 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 6 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

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Sorry - the Wordpress site is a temporary redirect. I’ve removed that for now so that you can take a look at the broken EE site.

Shane Eckert

Posted: 21 June 2012 04:02 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 7 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

Joined: 2011-11-25
7174 posts

Hey samanullah,

Which lings are not working?

I went through and tried a dozen or so and they all work.

Thank you,

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samanullah

Posted: 21 June 2012 04:27 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 8 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

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Actually, I fiddled around with the .htaccess file and all started working again! Thanks for helping look into it!

Shane Eckert

Posted: 22 June 2012 03:58 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 9 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

Joined: 2011-11-25
7174 posts

Hi,

That’s odd. I thought you removed that file and things still were funky.

Well, at least things are working now, that’s awesome.

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,

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