Friendly url’s giving a 404 error even though mod_rewrite is installed

When transferring a ModX site across to a newly setup cloud server I could only see the home page. After running through the ModX setup process again to get the manager’s file paths aligned correctly I checked through all the possible causes of this problem in the System Settings. Still no joy, all i got was a “File not found”. Continue reading “Friendly url’s giving a 404 error even though mod_rewrite is installed”

WordPress: curl_setopt() error when installing plugins on 1and1 host

When trying to install/activate plugins on my WordPress site after having to reset them following a host change, I received the following error

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in ….

This turned out to be an issue with my 1and1 hosting, and how they configure their servers.

To solve the problem I added the following to my .htaccess file: