Revolution new install

Hi, I think I must be missing something incredibly obvious here, so go easy!

I successfully installed revolution, but no matter what I’ve tried I can not get any content to show up.

Here’s the steps I used so far.

1) install revo - all OK it would seem, setup .htaccess for friendly URL’s, setup friendly URL’s on Revo config area, added a few packages
2) create a template (I called it ’default’)
3) create a static resource, called it home with an alias of home, assigned ’default’ template
4) visited front-end /home
5) nothing is showing up.. I viewed the source, and no template code is showing up either.

Have I missed something?

Make it a Document rather than a Static Resource.

Static resources take a file path in their Resource Content field and are usually used for things like PDF files and .DOC files that you want to deliver without a template.

Welcome to MODx.

Ohhhh! Thank you. That worked perfectly.

Is there a way to delete that static resource? When I try to remove it I get the error message "The resource is ’Site start’ and cannot be deleted!".

Does Revolution somehow set that as the default start page/resource?

There are several ways.

You could edit the site_start System Setting in System | System settings and change it to the ID of your new home page, but it’s kind of convenient to have the home page ID as 1 (the default) so instead, here’s what I would do.

Edit the static resource, go to its Page Settings tab and change the Class Key from modStaticResource to modDocument. Save it. Then re-open it in the editor and it will have a regular Resource Content field so you can use it as your home page.

The document you created earlier can be repurposed for something else.

Hope this makes sense.

Awesome. Thank you so much.