Hi,
I am currently working on a site that is hosted on Yahoo (not my choice!), and I’ve come to find out that Yahoo doesn’t allow you do upload .htaccess files.
I’m desperately trying to find some way around this, and I saw that on the MODX wiki it says that you can at least use the page aliases without touching the .htaccess file. I’ve tried it and it doesn’t seem to work for me. Am I doing something wrong, or is this information incorrect? Any help someone could give would be awesome. Thanks!
Here’s what the wiki says:
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Friendly_URLs_Guide
Friendly URLs without mod_rewrite (using the page alias)
Ok, by doing what is described in SEO (Google) Friendly url’s section, we get urls that look something like www.mysite.com/index.php?q=123. Now, how to get that to a url like www.mysite.com/index.php?q=my-blog-post-about-modx you say? Well we are not far. Here’s the steps how to set that up.
Do the steps that are described in SEO (Google) Friendly url’s
Go to the "Friendly URL Settings" tab.
Set "Use friendly aliases" to "Yes".
Select "Save" to save the MODx configuration settings.
Edit some document and set something to the "Document’s alias" field.
Done! Visit your site and look at the url to that document. It should have changed from index.php?q=123 to index.php?q=your-alias.
