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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
concrete5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – disabling pretty URL and cache


Carry out the following steps:

  1. In your dashboard, go to Sitewide Settings and make sure that the checkbox Enable Pretty URLs isn't ticked and then click on Save if you had to change it, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Delete the file named .htaccess which is in the root of your site like index.php.

  3. On the top in the dashboard, locate and select Debug to disable the cache.

  4. First, click on Clear Cache to clean up all the files saved in your files directory.

  5. Then activate the radio button Disabled and then click on Update Cache, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

What just happened?

Why did we disable the pretty URLs? concrete5 creates a .htaccess file to rewrite the URLs, which is based on a technology by the Apache web server. If you move your website to a server without support for .htaccess, your website might be broken after the move.

Please note, without pretty URLs you have to open the login page by using the following address...