Template issue when Strict URLs enabled

Question

I have a problem with one template after enabling Strict URLs - it returns 404 instead displaying content from the channel named News. The URL to open that template is like http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/news/

Template code:

    {embed="includes/header_main"}
    {embed="includes/header_two_column"}
<div id="wrapper">
  <div id="content">
            <div id="content_main">
                      {if segment_2 == ''}
                         {exp:channel:entries channel="news"}
                            <h1 class="orange">{title}</h1>
                            {news_summary}
                            <a href="/index.php{page_uri}">Read more</a>
                            <br /><br /><br />
                         {/exp:channel:entries}
                    {if:else}
                         {exp:channel:entries channel="news"}
                            <h2 class="bigorange">{title}</h2>
                            {news_body}
                            <p><a href="/index.php/nm">Back to news</a></p>
                         {/exp:channel:entries}
                    {/if}
                    </div>
            <div id="content_sub_buttons">
                <div style="background-image: url(/uploads/images/doc_photo.png); width:212px; height: 199px;">
                <div style="padding-top: 12px; padding-left: 15px;">
                {exp:ce_cache:escape}
                {exp:random_number min="1" max="6"}
                <img src="/uploads/images/kids/{random_number_0}.png">
                {/exp:random_number}
                {/exp:ce_cache:escape}
                </div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
        </div>
        {embed="includes/footer"}

Any clue why is not loading that template?

Thanks

Answer 1

Strict URL is working exactly how it is supposed to for you. From the EE blog:

With Strict URLs disabled, it’s possible to visit http://example.com/about-us/ and view that content. But you can also visit http://example.com/site/about-us/ and get the exact same content. This flexibility can be advantageous, but it comes with a price: dual availability can cause search engines to lower the content’s ranking.

With ExpressionEngine 2.6 and up, Strict URLs will be enabled by default in new installations. Using the same example, http://example.com/site/about-us/ is the only valid URL for that content. Visiting http://example.com/about-us/ with Strict URLs enabled will trigger ExpressionEngine’s defined 404 behavior.

If you have site/news as a template and strict URLs enabled, you can't access the news template with index.php/news. You have to have index.php/site/news.

UPDATE

Can you see if this does anything for you? Change your complex conditional to two simple conditionals:

{if segment_2 == ''}news home{/if}
{if segment_2 != ''}news listing{/if}

Answer 2

In your example of http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/news/ you need to make sure that news is set as you default template group and that it contains a template called index. Otherwise you have to explicitly declare the template_group/template in the URL.