RewriteRules help needed to handle holiday offers

I just made a semantic change to the query string.. the string you’re looking for will now be passed in the GET string as "offer_string". Hope this one works. It still looks for a trailing slash, but that trailing slash won’t be passed in the query string.

I’ve decided to cut the part after the /offer/ to just the first part just to make this thing easier, also the first part happens to be unique - so it should not cause major problems.

IE: /offer/MBJ7042C/

I’ve put a "Hello world" on the `offer` page just in case it was causing a problem.

I tried your code but I still get 404 errors. I tried commenting and uncommenting the Options +FollowSymlinks part, but this made no effect.

Its a shame there was never a debug with RegEx, then I could see what’s going wrong and where...

Does your offer page itself still have an alias of just "offer"? Is it in a container?

Does your offer page itself still have an alias of just "offer"? Is it in a container?

The offer page itself has a page alias of `offer`

Is it in a container? Yes, it is.

It sits inside a container called `latest-offers`, but ideally I’d like the regex to work regardless of where it is in the document root/path.

So, the full path would be:

http://modx.localhost/latest-offers/offer/MBJ7042C

I hope this helps.

The friendly URLs part of MODx works by analyzing what’s passed in the query string for known document aliases.
So the rewrite rules pass the alias, not a document id, to tell modx what document the user wants.
As far as I know, you have to pass the alias to the parser. I don’t know of a way to pass the document id.
So below, the q= parameter has to be your script’s full alias. That’s why it’s not working.

Actually, come to think of it, I was wrong about not being able to pass the doc id. Doh!
You should be able to pass it in place of the alias. Unless you’ve got the SEO Strict URLs plugin (or similar) going, then MODx should behave as you are hoping.

I tried this;

RewriteRule ^offer/(.*)/$ index.php?q=latest-offers/offer&offer_string=$1 [L,QSA]

It however, unfortunately does not work. Perhaps there’s another solution.

I think I need to stop giving out mod_rewrite advice without access to develop and test the rules myself.. it’s always a bit of trial and error, and a forum is no place for a debugging process.
Sorry to lead you astray.

Its quite okay, I’ll hopefully get there in the end!
:)

I’ve had to roll it back to this, and just to clarify I’m after the offer_id part.
/latest-offers/offer/?offer_id=ANU606C

Hi,

For the URL pattern, as I couldn’t get Regular Expressions to work, so I’ve hacked a solution that is reliant upon the 404 page, called a 404 Router and takes it idea from the Friendly URLS on the Fly post at: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,33293.15.html

Basically what happens is, you go to:

/latest-offers/offer/MBJ7042C

This goes to the 404 error page, I check for the occurance of the "offer" part -- if its there, I redirect to the single offers page with the 4th element of the URL pattern (MBJ7042C) and use this to find the relevant holiday offer.

Naturally, I’d love to have a regular expression solution, but everything I’ve tried seems to fail.

Thanks