[Solved] Friendly URL Issue in MODx Revolution Beta 5

Hi all,

I started using MODx Revolution with Beta 5 and really love its many improvements, especially the much streamlined work flow. Right now I only have the following little issue with friendly URLs.

When setting a link via a Wayfinder call or <a href="[[~id]]">link text</a>, Apache gives out an error message, except for the home page.

Here is my document tree setup and the error messages I receive:

Files and Folders:
+ Home (id 1), alias: home
+ Products (id 2, document folder), alias: products
++ Category 1 (id 3, child document of "products" folder), alias: category-1
+ Contact Us (id 6), alias: contact

Output:
Home: http://localhost/modx_rev/
Alias is not displayed, but page opens without an error message

Products: http://localhost/modx_rev/products/

Not Found
The requested URL /modx_rev/products/ was not found on this server.

Category 1: http://localhost/modx_rev/category-1.html

Not Found
The requested URL /modx_rev/category-1.html was not found on this server.

Contact Us: http://localhost/modx_rev/contact.html

Not Found
The requested URL /modx_rev/contact.html was not found on this server.

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The following are my MODx Revolution system settings and server configuration with regard to friendly URLs:

System-->System Settings-->Friendly URL:
Automatically generate alias: 0
Use friendly Alias Path: No
Use friendly URLs: Yes
Use friendly aliases: Yes
container_suffix: /

Directory structure:
/var/www/modx_rev

.htaccess file in modx_rev folder:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /modx_rev

# The Friendly URLs part
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

.htaccess file in manager folder:
RewriteEngine On

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I tried fiddling with these settings but haven’t been able to make MODx create usable links. Therefore I hope someone could point me to a possible solution.

Best regards,

Stefan

Hello Bytesource,

Try to scitch from :

RewriteBase /modx_rev

to :

RewriteBase /

in your root .htaccess file

Hello lossendae,

I tried as you suggested and changed RewriteBase /modx_rev to RewriteBase /

I then restarted Apache, logged off the MODx manager, logged in again, cleared the cache and tested the links again. Unfortunately I still get the exact same error messages.

Hopefully this test result can lead us to the solution of my link problem

It should be:

or you can leave out RewriteBase altogether and use a slightly altered RewriteRule:

Hi OpenGeek,

I tried both of your suggestions but still get the exact same error message.

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2)


I would like to point out that friendly URLs seem to be working, at least the output (e.g. /contact.html) is correct. It’s just that for some reason Apache cannot find these pages and therefore throws an "Not Found" error.

I still think this is caused by some wrong setup and not by MODx itself. Is there a way to test this? I really want to move over to MODx Revolution but for this I need functional page links

Best regards,

Stefan

In case you want to take a look at it, here is the output of my server’s phpinfo(): http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcw4nps_361gdzzdgc6

Edit: Could it be that I have to modify httpd.conf in some way? Right now this file is empty.

Sounds like a mod_rewrite is not enabled.
For linux machines run under the root:


P.S. httpd.conf on Debian based systems is obsolete (using apache2.conf), but Unix and post-RedHat distros uses httpd.conf

I have finally been able to solve the my problem:

First of all I checked /etc/apache2/mods-enabled to make sure mod_rewrite was enabled. There was rewrite.load which is a symlink to the actual rewrite module.

After that I followed this test only to find out that Apache ignored my .htaccess files:
http://blog.coldtobi.de/1_coldtobis_blog/archive/219_how_to_check_if_you_have_modrewrite.html

Then I opened /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and realized that AllowOverride was set to None. After changing AllowOverride to All in <Directory /> as well as <Directory /var/www/> and restarting Apache (sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
) all links worked!



The only thing I had to change in my .htaccess file was the RewriteBase, which I changed from /modx_rev to /modx_rev/ just as OpenGeeK suggested.

Thanks again for your help!

Best regards,

Stefan

Thanks for the update Stefan - this resolved the issue for me also.

Cheers,

DM

I made a special note in the friendly urls concerning the need for the rewritebase to end in a /

http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Using+Friendly+URLs