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I restored my live site to a local development server and it works perfectly. The problem is (1) all the links on my homepage result in a 404 error and (2) I cannot access my admin backend

I tried:
- disabling my .htaccess by renaming it (htaccess.bak) - no effect
- disabling/enabling RewriteEngine from "On" to "Off" in .htaccess file - no effect
- cleared out browser cache

In a similar thread (1) you recommended purging 3rd party SEF urls as a solution. In my case Im using sh404 so I emptied out the sh404sef_urls table in phpmyadmin but it does not seem to help.

You also recommended making changes using htaccess using the htaccess Maker in Akeebabackup component but unfortunately I cant access backend either.

It looks like it might be a SEF (sh404) issue so I will contact them, but just wanted to check here first.

NOTE: mod_rewrite is enabled as shown in my phpinfo.php local file. The local dev server is using Apache 2.4

Reference Links:
1 - https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/site-restoration/14582-site-restores-smoothly-however-some-links-do-not-work-and-generate-404-errors.html

2 - https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/site-restoration/13455-restored-site-on-new-server-redirects-to-old-one.html

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