URLs; clean sub-directory URLs work, top directory URLs don't

[russellbits]

Anyone have any idea why my top level URLs are requiring the ?/ in between the domain and page, while my subdirectory articles work just fine without it? For instance, domain/articles does not work while domain/?/articles does work, and yet domain/aritcles/articletitle works just fine? I can't yet see anything in .htaccess that could be causing this.

[kolber]

Have you tried clearing your page cache? It sounds like it could be caused by some older pages being cached with unclean urls and some not.

[russellbits]

If clearing your cache is accomplished by just deleting the files in the _cache directory, then yes I tried that to no effect.

To be more clear about what is happening, domain/articles results in the index page being called (but without proper links to stylesheets and the like). domain/?/articles' results in thecategory.htmltemplate being called properly anddomain/articles/articletitle` works fine.

I'm starting to notice a pattern here. The old Stacey had an index.html template, but I'm noticing that this version does not.

[russellbits]

The code squeezed me, it hammered me to the point of desperation. And in that desperation, I turned to a man that I didn't fully understand: rm*

The results were not pretty, but Stacey seems to be working just fine now. I guess I'll never know what the problem was.