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I have taken over 3 Joomla websites from another company who is closing down. Using Akeeba I have successfully backed and restored two of them to my server.

This last website was more complicated (3 x databases). Once restored I got an 500 error message.

As per your troubleshooting instructions:

I changed my php.ini file to
error_reporting=E_ALL
display_errors=Off
memory_limit = 64M

On the other two websites I had to use the .htaccess file to write this:
<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
suPHP_ConfigPath /mypath/public_html/php.ini
</IfModule>

But on this website this .htacess file gave me an 500 error. So I named the .htaccess file .htaccess.bak and I could finally see the home page.

But now only links that end in "index.php?option=com_content...." work perfectly - BUT other links that end with eg: "mytempurl.com / home-lodge.." give a 404 error message.

I also changed the
public $live_site = "http://www.mytempsite.com";

I went through the 3rd party files but cant find anything that has a hardcoded url in it. (and I am aware you cant provide support for 3rd party plugins) but perhaps the fact that it works on "?" links and not the "/" links shows you the problem?

Thank you.

SOLVED!

After much messing around I turned on SEF and used Joomla's default .htaccess file. (although why I had to create a custom .htaccess file on the other two websites I dont know)