Can someone help me understand how the friendly url settings work?  I know where the setting is in the Host Settings ->Advanced Settings, but when I enable the Use Friendly URLs checkbox in my Godaddy hosted web site, all the portals throw errors and are un-reachable.  It works fine on my localhost dev machine, and it used to work on the Godaddy hosted sites until one of the version upgrades back around 5.x something.  It seems to me that there might be some issue with how Godaddy sets up the IIS virtual site.  Has anyone else had this issue?  Is there a way to set the Match / Replace With values so that friendly URLs will work again?

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Gene W

When I turn on friendly URLs, I get 404 errors when the url in the browser address bar is http://baaad.info/NewsArticles.aspx

Server Error in '/Baaad' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
 Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.  Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

 Requested URL: /baaad/NewsArticles.aspx

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.1

The "Friendly URL" that is being used in the browser address bar (http://baaad.info/baaad/NewsArticles....) is what I expect it to be, but it throws the 404 error.  To regain the ability to get to any pages I have to update the UseFriendlyUrls setting in the HostSettings table manually. When FriendlyURLs are turned off, the address in the browser is http://baaad.info/baaad/Default.aspx?... which works to display the NewsArticles page just fine.  The main site domain name is http://baaad.info, and dnn is installed in a folder named \baaad in my hosted account.  The domain name is mapped using godaddy's management tools so that \baaad is the application root for the domain name.

Let me know if you need more info.

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Gene W