Answered Installation in subdomain - problem with Base href

Hi,

This is a strange one!
I always create a site on a subdomain first, then once approved, move it to the live domain.
On this particular site - i have installed modx successfully on dev.domain.com
and the directory for the subdomain is located in public_html/dev (which is normal.)
But the only way I can preview the site or login to the site is via:

www.domain.com/dev

if I try:

dev.domain.com/

The site renders, but all the links are wrong.
When I check the base_href, it's set to:

<base href="http://dev.domain.com/dev/"/>

I have checked my htaccess file which is set to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Which should be correct.

I CAN get the site to work by changeing the above to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /dev

and then access it via
www.domain.com/dev

but just don't understand why I cannot access it via the subdomain!!

has anyone coe across anythign like this before?
The currentl live site on www.domain.com is a wordpress site - I have checked the htacess file in the root of the domain, but all that has is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Which looks pretty standard?

Any ideas?
I'm stumped!!

Thanks!
Andy

Hi,

did you empty the cache, check all templates for an older <base href> and all relevant paths inside /core/config/config.inc.php?

Best regards

Guido

Quote from: gallenkamp at May 18, 2016, 07:37 AM

Hi,

did you empty the cache, check all templates for an older <base href=""> and all relevant paths inside /core/config/config.inc.php?

Best regards

Guido

Yes I tried all that thanks. It seems it may have something to do with the htaccess file int he root folder - as there us currently a Wordpress site there (yuk).

Will see if I can move the subdomain outside of the root folder I think.

Do you have this exact tag in the head section of all templates?



If you have more than one front-end context, it should be:

Quote from: BobRay at May 18, 2016, 11:45 PM

Do you have this exact tag in the head section of all templates?

<base href="`"[[++site_url]]"`">

If you have more than one front-end context, it should be:

<base href="`"[[!++site_url]]"`">

Thanks Bob - yes I have that in the head, and I only have a single context.
It seems to be related to the htaccess file which is in the root directory (powering the Wordpress site that I'm replacing). I moved the subdomain to outside of the public_html, then reran set up and it's all fine now! Didn't get to the bottom of it, but found a workaround - which is second best I guess!

Thanks for the suggestion though.

I'm glad you got it sorted.