General Support: Link problem

I have a page at http://gibbonsracing.com/Plogger/index.php?level=album&id=2 The slide show link goes to
http://gibbonsracing.com/Plogger/?level=album&id=2&mode=slideshow instead of
http://gibbonsracing.com/Plogger/index.php?level=album&id=2&mode=slideshow
The same thing happens on the links to the bigger pictures it takes the index.php out of the URL

Lsprout,

Your server should be set up that both of those URLs actually point to the same thing. Removing the 'index.php' should not cause any problems. For example, if you have an index.php file that is your home page and someone types http://gibbonsracing.com your server should show the index.php without the user having to type the full address http://gibbonsracing.com/index.php. It's not doing that for some reason. However, it looks like you can try to set this on your server by having your webhost change the config or by using an .htaccess file.

To use an .htaccess file, first check to see if there is already an .htaccess file in your root directory. If there is, add the code on new lines to the existing file. If not, create a new file in a text editor (Notepad works if you are on a PC) and add the following code:DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm Then save the file as .htaccess and upload to your website's root directory. Basically all the code does is to tell your server to first look for an 'index.html' file, then if one isn't found to look for an 'index.php' file, and if that isn't found to finally look for an 'index.htm' file. I think right now your server is probably only looking for an 'index.html' file or an 'index.htm' file, but not an 'index.php' file.

I hope that helps! :D

hmmm . . . I have no idea.

You should erase out the lines from or delete the whole .htaccess file until we can find out what is going on. The DirectoryIndex should not have anything to do stopping an index.php file when linked directly to it. You may need to delete the .htaccess stuff and contact your webhost tech support and explain the situation to them. My guess is there is something causing the problem in the Apache config or in the PHP compile.

Great! Glad you got it cleared up. I'll also try to take a look at how the URLs are generated to make sure they are the same across the board (I haven't been around long enough to use Plogger 2, so I don't know the differences really that much).