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GoDaddy says they have that running by default with all Linux hosting accounts… so I don’t think that is it.

What is a php.ini file?

I have one of those in there, but I don’t think it is affecting anything as far as I can tell…

Did you see that I added it – the .htaccess file – to my last post esmi?

…just edited my last post esmi

I doubt it still has the standard settings in the .htaccess file.

This site has been through a few developers’ hands.

my .htaccess file…

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

ooh… thanks Peter.

Yeah, I’m not too familiar with the .htaccess file

I don’t even really know what it’s saying, but I could maybe post a copy of what’s in it? if you’re still around?? don’t know if that is a security risk for my site or not…

I did look at it, but could not really understand what it is saying quite yet. I’ll look at it again right now, and make sure it’s even uploaded to my test site for starters.

EDIT: well, it’s definitely uploaded already, I just need to figure out what it is saying now, and if it is correct for my testing site. Would it have needed to be changed, since the URLs are different now? That may be what is causing me problems.

Because there is also a video that is supposed to be on the homepage, but is not there on my test site, and that is bothering me as well… hmmm….. need to understand the .htaccess file better as I know it is very important for configuration of a site,

Haha. Yeah I understand. Back into the wilderness.

The only reason there is a subfolder name is because I have it on my testing site.

I basically set up a testing version of the real site, so that I could do edits without affecting the live site.

I have a testing site, with multiple sub folders, each corresponding to a different website… unavailable to search engines… strictly for developing.

Not ideal… I think soon I want to just start developing locally, once I figure out how to do it.

I’m just in a hurry with this project, and don’t have the time to learn how to do it.

It’s like it’s not finding the template or something. That’s my only guess really.

Yeah, I know. Thanks for your help Peter.

If there was instant messaging, maybe I could send you a link to the site.

…or email, if you feel like helping me.

From source code…

<li><a href="https://thesite.com/subfolder-name/contact">Contact Us</a></li>

and then from the permalink when I view it in ‘edit page’
https://thesite.com/subfolder-name/contact

I have to put filler names in there, because I don’t want the client to be able to trace back to the link unfortunately.

Yeah when I enter its URL in the browser bar, it still says page not found.

https://my-site/contact

= 404 not found… darnit

Ok, thanks Peter.

Yeah, right now when I click on the appearance > menus
it says the following

The current theme does not natively support menus, but you can use the “Custom Menu” widget to add any menus you create here to the theme’s sidebar.

It was a custom theme created for the site, and the navigation was all coded into the header. I’m just baffled why I can’t find the contact page, as it has a template, and the link seems to be fine, when I look at its URL when I view it under “Pages”

So I don’t know… thanks for at least talking to me.. helps me generate ideas.

Well, a lot of this site that I am working on was custom coded, I guess you could say.

The navigation is coded into the header.php file.

It’s a fairly simple site with the following links:
Home
Contact Us
Services (with Dropdown menu)
Discounts
Blog

For some reason the Contact Us page is not being found.

There were templates created for the contact page, the blog, … Services Page – no template – but has some crazy SEO javascript stuff going on, and Discounts falls under the default template.

I just can’t figure out why the contact page is not being found. Like it’s not on the server at all, but I feel like it is…

Ok, problem solved.

I had done the search and replace wrong.

I had replaced all of the previous URLs of
https://thewebsite.com

with

https://www.my-development-site.com

and I should have replaced it with

https://my-development-site.com

I figured this out just by looking at the code of the live site, and then the code of my development site.

Woohoo!

EDIT: well the second link above is automatically having an https:// added to it when I submit this post, but I did not have an https:// on there when I did the search and replace. That was the problem.
I just had the “www.” part in front.

Ok I would hit edit, but I guess I can’t now. Don’t want to bump my thread rudely.

EDIT: I called Host Gator for help.

It was the default.html file that was jumping in… in front of the index.php file. I deleted that (it is a host gator file).

Now the index showed up, but no CSS… looks like I have some broken links… oh boy. May need more help in a bit.

Ok, looks like I’ve got some reading to do now…. ??

Thanks Esmi.