FCK Editor error

Hi All. I’m setting up a site on IIS6 and everything was going good until now. I set up friendly URLs, thanks to this post - http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3119.0.html

Now i just noticed that the FCK editor is not working. It has a 404 not found error message within the frame when i go to edit a page through the MODx manager. I’m not sure if this is a IIS issue but when i tested the site on Apache it was working fine.

Has anyone come across this problem before?

Hi BillyBear,

The problem is that your ISAPI Rewrite rules are processing in sub folders of your site i.e. /Manager/ and FCKEditor uses .html files in some places which are getting redirected to your index.php

What version of ISAPI Rewrite are you using? if you are using v3 this rule set will work fine for you:

RewriteRule ^/(?!(?:manager|assets)/)(.*)\.html(?:\?(.*))?$ /index.php?q=$1?2&$2: [NC,L,U]

If you need to exclude more folders from the rewrite rule you can add them like so

RewriteRule ^/(?!(?:manager|assets|testfolder)/)(.*)\.html(?:\?(.*))?$ /index.php?q=$1?2&$2: [NC,L,U]

Hope that helps

Aaron

Hi Aaron,

Many thanks for your quick reply.

Currently i’m using IIRF ( ionics isapi rewrite filter ) because it’s free and i need to keep the costs down as much as poss. The ini file has the following -

# SE Friendly URLs
RewriteEngine On
Rewrite Rule ^/manager/.* - [L]
Rewrite Rule ^/assets/.* - [L]
RewriteRule /(.*).html /index.php?q=$1

Do i just replace it with the code you posted or do i add it?

Also if i wanted to set up 301 redirects for pages that no longer exists how would i go about doing this?
Currently i’m using -

# 301 redirect old pages
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.co.uk/default.aspx$
RedirectRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.co.uk/default.aspx$
RedirectRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^/olddirectory/oldpage.aspx$
RedirectRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/new-page.html$1 [R=301]

However this is not working. It just give me a 404.

In theory the rules should be the same between different systems:

Try this complete file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCompatibility2 On
RepeatLimit 32
RewriteBase


# Block external access to the httpd.ini and httpd.parse.errors files
RewriteRule ^/httpd(?:\.ini|\.parse\.errors).*$ / [NC,F,O]

# Block external access to the Helper ISAPI Extension
RewriteRule ^.*\.isrwhlp$ / [NC,F,O]


RewriteRule ^/oldpagename.html$ /newpagename.html [NC,R=301]

# example of a rule on onesmarthost.co.uk
#RewriteRule ^/modx-hosting.html$ /modx-hosting-offer.html [NC,R=301]

RewriteRule ^/(?!(?:manager|assets)/)(.*)\.html(?:\?(.*))?$ /index.php?q=$1?2&$2: [NC,L,U]

:’(

Ok i tried that complete code and i’m sorry but the url rewrites are not working now. The pages are coming up with 404s.

Before the URL rewrite was working, it was just the FCK editor and the 301 redirects from the old pages that needed to be fixed.

The post where i got the first set of rules from - http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3119.0.html states that it leaves the manager and assets folders untouched for rewrites.

Sorry but i’m such a newbie with rewrite rules.

Hi BillyBear

I guess one way to test your original rules would be for you to create a test.html file in a subfolder of manager i.e. /manager/includes/test.html and have it out put some text i.e.

<h1>testing</h1>

Then from your browser try to access www.yoursite.com/manager/includes/test.html does this give you a 404 error?

Hi Aaron,

I’ve just done exactly as you said and uploaded a test.html file into the manager/includes/ directory.

When i try to access the page in my browser, i do get a 404

:’(

hmmm... i’ve just noticed an error in my original code - "Rewrite Rule".

There shouldn’t be a space, it should be one word. So i’m gonna change this now.

Solved!! It was the space in "Rewrite Rule" that was causing the problem.

Many thanks for your help.