Getting Back Into BS4 - Couple of Problems

[Randal]

Omar...

I'm just now getting back into using BS4 after a year away from it and have a couple of problems I need your assistance with.

1. I'm not using wildcard domains, just the simple  mydomain.com/blogs/blogname. But I'm getting a 404 when I try to view my blogs. I will paste in the contents of my htaccess file below.

2. The central management screen (mm.theblogsolution.com) does not display any of my installs. It was working great a year or so ago but right before I stopped using BS3, the central management screen started dropping some of my installs. Any idea why it doesn't show them at all now?

Here is my htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule   ^batch(.*)$     -     [L]
RewriteRule   ^aggregate(.*)$     -     [L]
RewriteRule   ^turbocharger(.*)$     -     [L]
RewriteRule   ^ping(.*)$     -     [L]
RewriteRule   ^manage(.*)$   -   [L]
RewriteRule   ^translate(.*)$      -       [L]
RewriteRule   ^export(.*)$   -   [L]
RewriteRule   ^templates(.*)$   -   [L]
RewriteRule   ^favicon\.ico(.*)$   -   [L]
RewriteRule ^contentsolution2(.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule   ^robots\.txt$ - [L]
RewriteRule   ^plain\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$   index.php   [L]

Thanks.

[Omar]

1. You should check with your host if the actualy parse htaccess rules. Some hosts are set to ignore anything in htaccess

2. MM is not available anymore since BS2. The changes made in BS3 and 4 made that impossible to use.

Sorry for the late reply.

[Randal]

Omar,

I checked with my host (Hostgator) re: processing htaccess rules and here is their reply:

Yes .htaccess and mod_rewrite rules are enabled by default on all of our servers, and work on all accounts by default.

What should I try next?  Thanks.

[Omar]

Email me ftp access and BS url and manage password. I need to have a look. It should work on hostgator indeed..

[Randal]

Omar,

I don't have your email address so I just sent you a PM (via this forum). Hope that works.

Thanks.