I have an odd problem where my fancy urls don't work, and in troubleshooting it I've encountered other problems. I'll try to give you as much information as I can think will help, but I'm a newbie so please bear with me.
Hi, I have GS 3.0 installed, and I do believe my host (Dreamhost) has apache_get_modules() though I'm not sure of that.
Unfortunately I cannot yet upgrade to 3.1 (it's the one-click install from Dreamhost and I've been informed yesterday that if I try to manually update it to 3.1 I could break things--and even if I was curious to try, the get-simple information for upgrades only covers v1-to-v2 and v2-to-v3 but not v3.0-to-v3.1 and I'm a newbie at all this).
According to my health check I am all good, and have php version 5.2.17 running on the host.
My problem is that I have fancy urls enabled (checked in settings) but they don't work. I tried also adding %parent%/%slug% as directed by this page:
http://get-simple.info/wiki/permalinks but they also do not work.
So that led me to edit .htaccess as described elsewhere in the forum, but I noticed that my .htaccess is actually a .temp-htaccess. I tried to rename .temp-htaccess to .htaccess but then nothing works (cannot navigate to page root at all, I think it was a 500 error), so I've restored the .temp-htaccess.
So to recap, what does work is: parent/index.php?id=slug, what doesn't is parent/slug, and my problem is now two problems: How can I get .temp-htaccess to become .htaccess for GS 3.0, AND, if I can get it to work, what would I need to edit it such that I have fancy urls?
P.S. a final oddity is that instead of a gsconfig.php (that I was going to edit to enable ckeditor) I only have a temp.gsconfig.php ...yeah, weird.