Furls not doing default page names.

with furls turned on, my pages are still using the ID-style url, when i click Preview in the MODx Manager.

but, if i click a top-level menu-item (generated by wayfinder), modx returns urls such as http://bayviewfootprints.org/5/, which gives 404 Page Not Found.

sub-menu items are in the style http://bayviewfootprints.org/22.html, also returning Page Not Found

what should i do?

thanks

Some things to check here:

• for your Wayfinder issues, clearing the site cache should sort that out. It’s probably still reading your old urls.
• for furls not working - open a few resources and check that there is a value in the ’alias’ field of each
• did you rename your ht.access file to .htaccess?

I found that in 2.0, it’s nor necessary to fill on the alias field-- MODx uses the document name automatically if there’s no alias.

Go into System > System Settings and filter by ’Friendly Urls’.

The first system setting is ’Automatically generate alias’ - which was set to ’No’ by default in my latest install.

Just suggesting you double check

glad you suggested it!
but i just found out the aliases are only created when you click ’Save’ on a resource. Otherwise, all my docs still have the numeric alias, which does not work. so now i must go through all my docs and manually save, to get the aliases. that should be automatic. Is there another way?

No other way I can think of without writing some code...

But if you right click on your resources you can do a ’quick update’ which should allow you to do it fairly quickly if your site isn’t too big. It’s something to keep in mind when starting out a new site - first step is enable auto aliases and furls!