I can't get static pages working

[Don Chambers]

Get rid of serendipity if you feel you must, but we are trying to help!! Perhaps you can check your error logs? Your settings look correct to me, and I use static pages just fine on sites with, and without, URL rewriting. I even have 2 sites on godaddy, but I installed directly, not through any of their one-click solutions. I think I just have a standard Linux hosting plan. Speaking of URL rewriting, try enabling that option using either mod rewrite or apache error handling.... that will allow you to get rid of the whole index.php? business.

[Slugsie]

I do appreciate the time you guys have given me in attempting to help me out. However I just don't have the time nor the patience to mess around with this. Given that I was at the very early stage of creating the webpage, there was no actual content to migrate. Therefore I can get the site up and running quicker by just abandoning Serendipity and installing Wordpress.

Thanks again for your time, but I'm going to move on to another tool.

[sonichouse]

I have a similar problem, by default my articles are index.php?/archives/nn-xxxx.html, and my static pages are /index.php?/photos.html.

My links all work if I disable url-rewriting.

If I turn on mod-rewrite, my static pages and contact form just bring up the home page.

Do I need to add anything to my .htaccess ?

[judebert]

s9y should update the .htaccess when you save your configuration.

It sounds more like mod_rewrite isn't installed on your server, which is odd because it's a nearly universal installation.

I'm sure Garvin will have something additional to say.

[sonichouse]

Mod-rewrite must have been working because the /archives/nn-xxx links were working.

The .htaccess was modified with the rules, and the calendar links worked as well.

When I turned on mod-rewrite it also broke another sub domain on my server

I would love to get this working as the links are cleaner, but I can live with it at the moment.