friendly url problems, .htaccess ** SOLVED**

Hi,

I am having hassles with my friendly url. I have been hunting for a solution everywhere and really need some help.

I have installed older versions of modx numerous times, but am having problems this time with v 2.1.1-pl traditional.

Quick rundown of what I have done and what has happened...

1. I changed my system settings to the attached.

2. When previewing a page I get the correct friendly url. (eg http://www.domain.co.uk/about.html - for the page that is titled About us)

3. After changing the .htaccess to the below things go a little wrong and I can’t clear my site cache and get a "500 - An Error Has Occurred. Please Check Your Scripts" error and can’t access any pages or the modx Manager.


# Friendly URLs Part
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
# Force all pages to go to www.domain.com for SEO
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.my-domain-was-here\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.my-domain-was-here.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
# Additional Settings Follow
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary


When I take out the .htaccess, I can access my modx manager again.

The index .php and .htaccess files are located at /www.domainname.co.uk/web/

I have a phpinfo.php at http://www.domain.co.uk/phpinfo.php

If you need me to provide any info, just shout.




Mitch

quick question :

http://www.ammatherapy.co.uk/newsite/ is the website? if all the files are in a folder called newsite, should it be RewriteBase / or rather : RewriteBase /newsite/ ?

edit: scrap what i wrote - is mod_rewrite even installed?

another quickedit - I’m going with rewrite base - check that that’s right

Hi Michael, thanks for replying.

That is a static version of the site. I am actually using a .htaccess to redirect to that subdirectory temporarily untill I install modx so they have something up. I wasn’t going to change over the .htaccess files for the friendly urls for modx till I got everything up and running, but I thought I would test it out before I got started, as I know some folks have had problems in the past with furls.

It’s only a small site, and I only wanted extremely limited content management for the user.

I know it is not ideal.

Quote from: michaelm at Jun 21, 2011, 06:09 PM

another quickedit - I’m going with rewrite base - check that that’s right

That is the static site.

The modx install is at index .php and .htaccess files are located at /www.domainname.co.uk/web/

See attached for a snapshot of my ftp.

k, with you now.

I’m still going with mod_rewrite tho (lol) - your furl settings in modx look pretty normal. I just cut n copied this from another site - can you check that mod_rewrite is actually working ok?

.htaccess :



and then in your browser :



takes you to google?

Just wanted to test that because a 500 error is sometimes a misconfigured server

Yes mod_rewrite is working fine. I just used yours and it took me to google. (have changed it back to my redirect to the subfolder since)

sweet, next is to check step by step :



leaving out the non .domain rewrite to www.domain , and the # Additional Settings Follow stuff.

keep in mind, that if you think it’s the caching, you can manually clear the modx cache in /core/cache (by deleting the files in that folder). And, you should also check file permissions (right user and permission)

also, is there anything more specific in the logs?

Well, when I copy and paste what you posted it takes me to the correct page... and seems fine.


What does this mean?

It means you could probably try the next lot :



If that still works, and you need the rest of the .htaccess, you can try pasting that in, seeing if everything is still working - mibbe mod_expires is causing the issue?

Also, you could probably change the System Setting > Site > Site Name to something like ’Ammatherapy’

Cool. Added a message in the content field since! I was actually looking into site naming when you posted! You da man!