MODX does not find the correct assets folder

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worchyld Reply #1, 17 years, 1 month ago

I have installed MODX on a beta folder (ie: /beta/) and I have a template variable called tv_media which is an image.

On the root of the website there is an assets folder, this is not related to MODx, however MODx keeps pointing to this assets folder.

In the configuration the settings are:

File Browser URL: /assets/

When editing a page that uses the tv_media template variable and pick an image it always references /assets/ and not /beta/assets/

I tried changing the file browser url to the following:

/beta/assets/
beta/assets/
/full/path/to/beta/assets/

Regardless of what I do MODX does not pick up the right assets folder.

I’ve tried hacking my code to do /beta/assets/images/someimage.jpg in the template but the image never appears.

How do I resolve this problem? I really don’t want to re-install MODx as I’ve spent all day setting up the pages.

Thanks

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BobRay Reply #2, 17 years, 1 month ago

Try putting this in the <head> section of your templates (if not already there):

<base href="[(site_url)]" />

Do you have friendly URLs turned on?

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worchyld Reply #3, 17 years, 1 month ago

Hi there.

I investigated the problem, and the problem was not with MODX itself, but with the MiniPhoto Snippet.

When I reviewed the snippet it tries to find out whether the image exists (I know it does) but it always returned a false.

In the MiniPhoto snippet I added a few debug output;

print $mp_img . '<br />';
print ($modx->config['base_path'].$mp_img);
print '<br />';

// this never finds the file, even though it exists
//if (file_exists($modx->config['base_path'].$mp_img)) {
    return '/'.$mp_img;
//}

// Output
assets/images/mini/image_box.jpg
/path/to/htdocs/beta/assets/images/mini/image_box.jpg
/assets/images/mini/image_box.jpg

The paths to the image should always be /beta/assets/images/image_box.jpg, and thus the paths do not appear to be correct, so I’ve decided to just return the $mp_img as I know the image does exist.

I may use the PHPThumb snippet instead for thumbnailing if this continues to be an issue.

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BobRay Reply #4, 17 years, 1 month ago

Quote from: worchyld at Oct 06, 2009, 04:16 AM

The paths to the image should always be /beta/assets/images/image_box.jpg, and thus the paths do not appear to be correct, so I’ve decided to just return the $mp_img as I know the image does exist.

I may use the PHPThumb snippet instead for thumbnailing if this continues to be an issue.

It looks like $imp_img has the /mini dir in its path. Either you need to move the images to the images/mini directory, or you need to change things so that $imp_img doesn’t reference the /mini directory.

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worchyld Reply #5, 17 years ago

I resolved this problem by putting everything in a sub-directory/sub-domain.

It has resolved all issues.

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BobRay Reply #6, 17 years ago

Glad you got it sorted.

Would you add [SOLVED] to the subject line of this thread. Thanks.

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