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404 pages on every link from home page on my restored site.
This issue occurred before and I could have sworn that you helped me solve it. However when I look at my old tickets I cannot find it.

The home page of the restored site is at: http://morevida.com/goodtalktnt/
You'll notice that every link you click on leads to a 404 page. I feel like I'm losing my mind as I'm sure that you solved this already for me once and I can find no trace of it in my email or on your support site.

Hostgator seems to meet all of your requirements for the .htaccess and permissions etc.

Would really appreciate your help in learning how to make this routine.

Versions:
Joomla 2.5
MySQL 5.5.21-55
php 5.3
Host: Hostgator
Akeeba backup professional 3.5

Hi, I'm not the most technical person in the world as evidenced by my inability to even find the .htaccess file when I downloaded it. I am only able to see what's in this file by opening it on the server, which I'm told is not good practice. Here's what's in there: http://screencast.com/t/n9ch2tBz

And whatever is in there was put by someone else. Your instructions on that page regarding this page is not clear to me and I don't feel comfortable making any changes to this file.

I did make the change to the configuration.php file as instructed and it did some good as there were some colour changes that were properly reflected after I made the change to the sub-directory where this configuration.php file is.

However I still get 404 pages.

I wonder if any of the problems may be due to the name of the mysql database that I'm using which has a slightly different name "morevida_goodtalktt" I had created that mysql database for another domain which I have since decided to discontinue using. I created this other development environment but used the same mysql database. Could that be the problem. I've tried attaching my configuration.php file, but when I attach it and hit "send your Reply" I get this page http://screencast.com/t/SUpWDY1WpgI8

Thanks Nicholas.

In the future I will open multiple tickets, but it just seemed appropriate to include my questions in one email as it's easier for me and the issues are related.

I believe I understand now what I have to do in the future. As part of the restoration process I have to put in the development site url. It says "leave blank if unsure" and I did leave it blank.

Then once the site is restored I have to login to the backend and change the global configuration setting to "No" for "Use URL rewriting."

Whew! At least now I know how to reproduce this in the future.

Couple follow up questions:
1. Do you recommend any easy reference material or documentation on what "Use URL rewriting" means?
2. Should I still go ahead and make the changes to the .htaccess file you explained above? Could I do it myself by just copying the contents of the entire htaccess.txt file into the .htaccess file? (I have no developer really and I may created that same htaccess file but I can't remember why?)

Thanks for your help.