404 Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server

Question

I\'m having small troubles and was wondering if someone can help me over the hump. I pulled a copy of a website down from Hostgator and I\'m trying to set it up on my local

Answer 1

For saving a file as .htaccess, when using windows, you have to open notepad and then saveas .htaccess as windows does not create files starting with a dot. That should get your .htaccess working and it'll clear up the issue.

By the way, in order to receive specific error messages set Configure::write('debug', 0); to '2' in app/config/core.php for development purposes.