Can't make the friendly URL working

Dear MODx team

I am trying MODx cms after seeing the awards on puckt publishing site.

Everything was fine until I switch on the friendly url option.

Below are the attached screen shots on whole process. The files are fresh downloaded from this site too.

Please help me solve this problem without much on mod rewrite coding. Thanks

You need to make sure your ht.access file is re-named to .htaccess and that it contains this code :

Quote from: bunk58 at Jan 01, 2010, 12:15 PM

You need to make sure your ht.access file is re-named to .htaccess and that it contains this code :

RewriteBase /testing/modx

Thank you for the fast reply

But I will get Internal Server Error after I do what you have instructed.

Could it be caused by the content of my site root .htaccess file???

That’s not the MODx .htaccess file. You should find the MODx file as ht.access in the MODx root directory.

You may be able to just rename the MODx file to .htaccess if there’s not another .htaccess file in that directory. If not, you may have to merge the two.

Quote from: BobRay at Jan 01, 2010, 05:03 PM

That’s not the MODx .htaccess file. You should find the MODx file as ht.access in the MODx root directory.

You may be able to just rename the MODx file to .htaccess if there’s not another .htaccess file in that directory. If not, you may have to merge the two.

my installation folder is testing/modx
after i rename the ht.access to .htaccess, http://aixueyuan.com/testing/modx will give me page not found error (internal server error)

nothing happen after i changed the rewrite base from / into /testing/modx or testing/modx

everything is from default modx zip file downloaded from here.

for friendly url, it seems silver stripe or concrete5 does it better.

anyway, i am still in deciding stage to use modx for my next website building because of it’s impressive manager.

I admit I am not that genius, but will anyone tell me that does google indexing or seo or whatever can still works if I do not on the friendly url???

This issue has been solved.

With the help of my web hoster, www.exabytes.com.my

we renamed ht.access file to .htaccess file

then

we modified

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

to

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /testing/modx

and it is working now.

Glad you and your host got it sorted