Multisite not working (XRouter)

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Gerben Reply #1, 5 years, 6 months ago

I've been setting up a multisite with several contexts and domains. Somehow it's not working. The main context/domainname is working fine, but the others are being redirected to www.firstdomain.nl.

Here's my context settings for the 'second' context:
base_url /
http_host www.seconddomain.nl
site_url https://www.seconddomain.nl/

seconddomain.nl is set up as an alias of firstdomain.nl.

Do I need some configuration in my htaccess? I think it should work this way.

This question has been answered by handjes. See the first response.

[ed. note: handjes last edited this post 5 years, 6 months ago.]

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nuan88 Reply #2, 5 years, 6 months ago

I think yes, htaccess is what you need. Presumably those redirects are causing you to go to maindomain.

But, I am searching and finding nothing. Is the re-routing to subdomains not handled by htaccess?

I am searching and getting nowhere. Let's figure out routing of those subdomains

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ilinko Reply #3, 5 years, 6 months ago

Yes, you need to configure .htaccess , maybe this can help you

https://docs.modx.com/revolution/2.x/administering-your-site/contexts/creating-a-subdomain-from-a-folder-using-virtual-hosts

MODx Version: 2.6.5-pl
Developing in Local Page with:
> MAMP 5.0
> PHP 7.2.7

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Gerben Reply #4, 5 years, 6 months ago

Ok. Some say it's not the htaccess file, some do.

That link does not give me any information unfortunately.

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massimo Reply #5, 5 years, 6 months ago

Gerben,

did you set up the index.php in each context to activate the right context?

The last lines in each index.php should look like this (look for the line saying "/* Initialize the default 'web' context */"):

 
/* Initialize the default 'web' context */
// Comment the default web context initialization:
//$modx->initialize('web');

/* setup for multiple domains */
switch(strtolower(MODX_HTTP_HOST)) {
                                                                                           
/* setup for multiple domains */

switch(strtolower(MODX_HTTP_HOST)) {
   case 'www.firstdomain.nl :80':
   case 'www.firstdomain.nl :443':
   case 'www.firstdomain.nl':
      // if the http_host is www.firstdomain.nl, load the second domain web context
      $modx->initialize('first domain context');
      break;
   case 'www.seconddomain.nl :80':
   case 'www.seconddomain.nl :443':
   case 'www.seconddomain.nl':
      // if the http_host is www.seconddomain.nl, load the second domain web context
      $modx->initialize('second domain context');
      break;
   default:
      // by default / if no other rule can be applied, load web context
      $modx->initialize('web');
      break;
}

/* execute the request handler */
if (!MODX_API_MODE) {
    $modx->handleRequest();
}

Also, make sure you have a site_start and an error_page defined for each context.

Hope this helps,

Massimo

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Gerben Reply #6, 5 years, 6 months ago

Ok, thanks. There's a duplicate line in that code:

/* setup for multiple domains */
switch(strtolower(MODX_HTTP_HOST)) {

But it's still not working. Everything is still being redirected to the web context. I did set up site_start and error_page.

BTW: What do you mean with index.php for each context?

[ed. note: handjes last edited this post 5 years, 6 months ago.]

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Gerben Reply #7, 5 years, 6 months ago

This is what I have in my contexts:

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massimo Reply #8, 5 years, 6 months ago

Gerben,

Your context configuration for cater.nl seems fine to me.
I guess your other context definition has http_host and site_url set for the other domain.
I would check the virtual host definitions in the web server and make sure that each definition contains the right ServerName/ServerAlias, DocumentRoot (or Alias) pointing to the exact disk location where each domain's assets and index.php are located.

This is pretty much what we have (I just used your cater.nl example):


<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName cater.nl
    ServerAlias www.cater.nl
#
  
    # Disable aliases from system config
    Alias / <path to cater's context directory>

    # debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert, emerg
    LogLevel warn
    ErrorLog logs/cater-ssl_error_log
    CustomLog logs/cater-ssl_access_log combined
    ServerSignature On
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    #
    # SSL config without comments
    #

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/cater.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/cater.key
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/InCommon-chain.crt

    #
    # INTERMEDIATE configuration,
    #    from:   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
    #
    #  IE6 and Java6 clients may have trouble
    #
    SSLProtocol             all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
    SSLCipherSuite          ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA
    SSLHonorCipherOrder     on
    #SSLCompression          off


    <Files ~ "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|pcgi|php|php3?)$">
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </Files>
    <Directory "/home/web/cgi-bin">
        SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
    </Directory>


    SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
             nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
             downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

    # not sure I we want this - ASM 2013
    #   Per-Server Logging:
    #   The home of a custom SSL log file. Use this when you want a
    #   compact non-error SSL logfile on a virtual host basis.
    #CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \
    #          "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

    #
    # END of SSL config
    #



</VirtualHost>

Note: We have a similar virtual host definition for port 80 for each domain, to make sure our server responds to http and https requests for all domains.

Hope it helps,

Massimo

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Gerben Reply #9, 5 years, 6 months ago

I have been working on it, trying the above. My provider is helping me with stuff like Virtual Host (which they do a great job at).

Also tried ContextRouter instead of XRouting; the interesting thing is: I am able to see the separate websites/domains when I am viewing pages from WITHIN MODX (the View option). The sites look fine. But accessing the alias domain names via the address bar is still not possible.

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BobRay Reply #10, 5 years, 6 months ago

Make sure you have a base href tag in all templates that's called uncached (with the exclamation point):

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

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