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Troubleshooting

Task: recreate live site on desktop server for development purposes

Problem: clean urls not working

1. Make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled on your server
Go to httpd.conf file and uncomment this line:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

2. If you copied all the files from the live site directly to your local server, you may have
copied over the .htaccess file as well. This file applies specifically to your live server so it

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