Indexhibit Support

Hello, yes another clean URL question. i have followed stickie instructions, and confirmed my server has modrewrite. yet i get 404 File Not Found errors on exhibit pages. i believe this is because my site is in a subfolder.

http://www.ericforman.com/newSite/

i found a forum post that said you need to add this subdirectory to .htaccess. so i did this:

RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php
RewriteRule ^(.+) /newSite/index.php

and now I don't get 404 error, which is good, but every exhibit page just shows the About page.

i tried removing the first line above so the only RewriteRule is for subdirectory, but same thing.

so after digging around in the forums, i systematically tried every suggestion (obviously i am an amateur here), and none of them worked:

Options -MultiViews

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteBase /

finally i set MODREWRITE back to false, and strangely enough the exhibit page clean URL works!

define('MODREWRITE', false);

but of course none of the nav links go to that page, because MODREWRITE is set to false. i am mystified. can anyone help?

again, you can see this in action by going to the above example exhibit from the main nav, in which case you will arrive at:
http://www.ericforman.com/newSite/index.php?/projects/timeflow/

and then you can go to what the clean URL would be and see that it works:
http://www.ericforman.com/newSite/projects/timeflow/

if MODREWRITE is set to true, however, the link above would *not* work and would only display the About page.

thanks for any guidance,

eric

Who is your host?

I'm going to trust you will be linking back to Indexhibit on your site?

1&1 is the host. this page says apache server has modrewrite:
http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/configuring_apache_server_using_htaccess/4.html

yes i am linking back to indexhibit. experimenting with heavy customization so that isn't in there at the moment, but rest assured i will respect that.

by the way, is there no option for email notification of thread reply?

nope.

so... no ideas? i will try to post on some other lists in the meantime, if i figure it out, i'll post back here...

There are many sites on 1and1 and they haven't had issues...

what needs to be done differently if the site is in a subdirectory? i guess i should put it in root directory to see if this is the problem, just didn't want to interfere with my current site.

in summary:

if i set define('MODREWRITE', false) in defaults.php the site links are *not* clean, but clean URLs do work

if i set define('MODREWRITE', true) the site links are clean, but clean URLs do *not* work.

what else can i try?