mod_rewrite and modx cms

[rama76p]

I've set up modx cms on a hostgator site. I'm trying to use htaccess and mod_rewrite to enable friendly urls. However I am getting 404 errors. Here is my htaccess file.

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# The Friendly URLs part
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

[slapshotw]

Just to confirm-- if you manually go to index.php?q=something, it works?

[rama76p]

Yes it does.

[slapshotw]

Is that the only thing in your htaccess?

[rama76p]

yes. there are some other lines but they are all commented out.

[chipd]

Silly question, but is your modx setup in the root of the site so you would access it as yourdomain.com/index.php or in a subfolder such as yourdomain.com/modx/index.php?

If it's the latter then you will need to set the "RewriteBase" to the name for the sub-folder, such as "RewriteBase /modx/"

[rama76p]

it is in the root folder. i access it at mydomain.com/index.php

[madeofpixels]

I've set up modx cms on a hostgator site. I'm trying to use htaccess and mod_rewrite to enable friendly urls. However I am getting 404 errors.

I have just set up a new MODx install in the root folder, with friendly urls turned off and all pages are defaulting to Hostgator's 404 page.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

[gwyneth]

Double check that you set the nameservers correctly at the domain's registrar, to the ones provided in the HG welcome email. Does anything show up--i.e., a simple page not related to modx?