MODx using relative URLs, how to use root relative?

I am migrating from Evo to Revo, and have hit another stumbling block. I promise I’ve searched for ages in the forums, and played with various settings, but with no joy.

Basically I want paths to be root relative. So pretty much for every link to begin with /

However all links on my site are just relative, so are thus failing.

I know I had this issue with TinyMCE with Evo, and had to set it to root relative.

But my problem is not just isolated to MCE - all the Wayfinder navigation is like this too. So it made me wonder if there’s another setting I’m missing.

Any help much appreciated!

Thanks

I don’t think there’s a way to do this currently, but it’s definitely worth a feature request imo.. Could simply be a system setting toggling something in the makeUrl function.

The easiest solution is to add a <base href="[[!++site_url]]"> to your html header.

Thanks Mark.

Well I decided I could just add a leading slash in the wayfinder tpls and that fixed that. However TinyMCE is being a right pain! I set it to rootrelative, but now I just get "/assets/components/tinymce/" before any URLs.

You know your option is easiest. I could save myself so much time. So why have I not done it? I have vague memories of some drawback on it... but I can’t remember what. Or maybe I’m just giving base href a hard time based upon a hunch from maybe 10 years ago.

I use base href all the time.. haven’t figured out any problems with it.

Thanks. I think sometimes I just like to make extra work for myself! Not sure why I have that perception about base href, but time to drop it and move on with things.

In case there is anyone, like me, who is still having problems with this, you need to change the tiny.base_url to ’/’ . That overrides the ’/asses/components/tinymce’ as the base.

Then change tiny.path_options to ’rootrelative’.

Thanks Michael (mregan), that's a great tip. I can't see why this isn't set as the default - non-root relative URIs are too fragile. The moment you want to use your resource outside the root, your links are broken, unless you use the <base> tag, which can have undesirable or unexpected side effects.