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The last thing I did was enable compression, so that's got to be what's causing the problem. If I remember correctly there were 3 options for compression

option 1 for none
option 2 for regular compression
option 3 for advanced compression

I chose 2

Now, none of the links in the blog work, and I can' log in or out. Every link in the site just refreshes the mail page. See it here...
www.pdasoftwarecompare.com

How can I get back in to turn off that compression?

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papile commented

Do you mean caching? If so you if you have access to the db you can do this:

UPDATE variable SET value = 's:1:\"0\";' where name = 'cache';

Edit: You will also need to clear the cache because that variable is cached too!
Truncate table cache;
Truncate table cache_filter;
Truncate table cache_menu;
Truncate table cache_page;
Truncate table cache_views;

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selectsplat commented

Caching is what I meant.

But apparently, that's not what is causing my problems. I followed your suggestion to change the variable back, and to clear the cache, but I still have the same issues.

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tm commented

observation: when you put in the "unclean" url equivalent, it works ("/?q=user"). can you login there?

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selectsplat commented

I was on that track just now when i noticed the error log in cpanel was showing that all the links clicked are creating a 'file not found' error.

The whole site might work if I cna get in and switch to unclean urls. But what would make them suddenly not work anymore?

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selectsplat commented

And now most of the links are working again.

However, when I go in to run the clean URLs test, I get a page not found. Any idea of what could have changed to keep me from running clean URLs?

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tm commented

any changes on the hosting side (mod_rewrite)? otherwise, you will have to wait for someone smarter than me. i usually blame "murphy's law," and move on. good luck!

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vm commented

tm is correct. If clean urls used to work and now they no longer do, there is a problem on your hosts end. You want to to call or file a support ticket and ask about mod_rewrite
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selectsplat commented

And I've changed a number of small, seemingly innocuous settings to try to help the bandwidth, but I certainly didn't change the http.conf file, where you would normally shut mod_re-write off at. I'll take a closer look at that, though.

I can't just move on, though, because I've got about 12 different drupal sites running, and all of them use clean URLs, and most have some links hard coded in the template.

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selectsplat commented

libexec/mod_rewrite.so
AddModule mod_rewrite.c

Neither are commented out. So mod-rewrite should be working.

I could ask the host, but I'm on a VPS, so they'll probably jsut throw it back at me.

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vm commented

your right they will.

The only other thing to try would be to replace the .htaccess file with a fresh one and test.

all that clean urls needs is mod_rewrite. have you tried rebooting apache ?
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selectsplat commented

or at least copies of the same one. And all of my sites are having the same problem.

I have not yet tried to reboot apache. I guess I'll try that next.

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vm commented

may work considering you've made changes to the system and haven't rebooted. Outside of that, I'm out of ideas on what may have caused the problem. I'd hope you made notes of what you've changed so that you can undo those changes and work backwards.
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tm commented

if so, it is not your web server... i dunno. the handbooks mention .htaccess stuff, but i break things when i go in there. :(

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selectsplat commented

It has to be a webserver issue, I think

Probably a setting somewhere that I clicked on thinking it would help my bandwidth problem.

Boy, when it rains, it pours.

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cr930326@gmail.com commented

But i hade the same problem and called my host. And he said that it was the htaccess file that disappeard when i did a reset off my domains, hope it helps if someone still comes here!