Friendly URLs [Revo 2.0]

I’m adding friendly urls to a revo site in development.

.htaccess files looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /modx/

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.org [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.org/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /modx/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

In System->System Settings:

Use Friendly Urls: Yes
Use Friendly Aliases: No
Use Friendly Alias Path: No

This url: http://www.mydomain.org/modx/index.php?id=216

becomes this: http://www.mydomain.org/216.html

Unfortunately the latter is apparently not a valid address, so it produces a 404 error . . .

So it’s loading the site, but not finding the page . . .

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Terry

Make sure you have these options enabled in system settings.



Also make sure you are assigning a resource alias to your pages.

You can:

1) enter an alias yourself for each page
2) have MODx automatically assign an alias for you
3) I have to experiment to see what happens if you use both 1 and 2
I could guess that MODx will overwrite your alias and assign an automatic
one...

Thanks for the quick replies!

Automatically generate alias was set to Yes.

When I set these to yes

Use Friendly Alias path
Use Friendly Aliases

The browser simply fails to load anything . . .

If I set Use Friendly Alias path to No, it will load the 404 page as before.

If I set Automatically generate alias to No, the url changes from this

http://www.easwaran.info/modx/23.html

to this

http://www.domain.org/modx/resourcealias.html

for those pages where I’ve included a Resource Alias

So it seems that MODx is generating the url as expected - but for some reason it is not valid.

Any ideas what I can try next?

Thanks!

Terry

If it was a MODx error, it would have give you an error 500 not 404.

Can you re-verify your .htaccess (in case you have forgot to rename it) and your apache configuration (LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so) ?
Empty your site cache and reload.

Fixed!

Yes, .htaccess was being parsed - I can force an Internal Server Error by putting in random content.

But I had it in the site root. Once I moved it into the top directory of the site

/modx

it all works as advertised!

Somewhere in the MODx documentation for Friendly URLs it says that the .htaccess needs to be in the site directory or above it . . .

At least with my configuration it seems it needs to be in the site directory root.

I’ll see if I can find that page of documentation and suggest a correction.

Thanks again!

Terry