Clean 2.4.6 – can’t serve any category pages

Howdy, have set up a fresh install of 2.4.6-p2 several times thinking I’ve done something wrong each time while solving this crazy category problem.

Each time, I have the default root cat, and one sibling root cat, with a single test product assigned to both.

Can nav to the test product directly or via rewritten URL just fine, the product URLs are being generated just fine.

But I cannot nav to the category under any circumstances. It’s like the system isn’t acknowledging the categories even exist!

The category rewrites are not being generated in the DB’s url_rewrite table, where the product URLs are being generated just fine. I’ve seen lots of references to this problem.

However, the direct catalog URLs for categories are not even working, eg https://<domain>/catalog/category/view/id/<category id>

I get a 404 for everything.

I must be missing something, it’s driving me around the twist.

Surely at the very least, catalog based category URLs should work out of the box on a fresh install.

If anyone has any ideas what might be going on, any tips would be hugely appreciated.

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