Update: I out the re-write rules back in, and now the site works. But I still get the same message as message as before.
After reading through some of the documentation, I think I can narrow my question to the following: what is the proper way to remove the Supercache mod_rewrite rules from the .htaccess file? I already tried to remove the block of code that starts with –
# BEGIN WPSuperCache and ends with # END WPSuperCache.
Ok, I see what needed to be fixed. For anyone else with this problem, after you delete the block of WPSupercache code in your .htaccess file, you also need to put back 2 lines of code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
These 2 lines of code go directly below the line of code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
If you compare your altered .htaccess file with an unaltered one, you can see that these 2 lines had been removed by WPSupercache.
That seems to have solved my issue!
Hope I could help someone else.
Allen