rastatech

thanks for your help Ipstenu!
i know my original post was a tad long but deep in there i described that after the 2nd Softaculous install failed to resolve the issue, i DID reinstall the “normal way”.
And after an aquaintance said the same thing you did – “looks right to me” i discovered that i had somewhere along the line solved the problem and was continuing to bang my head on an uncleared Firefox cache!!!
D’OH!
anyway let this be a lesson to others — don’t overthink it, try multiple browsers, and clear your &)@(#$&!!! CACHE!!!
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anyway, thanks again for your help….

i’ve also used this site https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ to check the .htaccess and it seems not to be doing anything weird. What am i missing?

Thanks Ipstenu, but that didn’t end up working for me either.
I ended up giving up and re-installing the whole thing under http. But now i have a whole ‘nother issue, for which i’m starting a new thread. [ https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/subsites-dashboard-gets-redirected-to-nonsense-address?replies=1#post-5210051 ]
I appreciate your taking the time to assist…..

sorry for the delay in reply — yes, i installed as HTTPS initially.
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I’m wondering if there’s a way around it using some clever ModRewrite voodoo or if i need to re-install using HTTP as the default?