site_start and full url

Hello all,

For exemple, this is my tree

• Directory (ressource id 1)
  [list]
  [li]Welcome (2)
• Other-page (3)

[/li]
[/list]
The alias for ressource 2 is:
/directory/welcome.html

And my site_start is 2.

How to use the full url of ressource 2 when we call this page, because I want to stay site_start to 2 and keep the full path, but at this time, when I reach this ressource, the full url change to ’/’.

Low.

Sorry I think what you’re asking is a little vague.

Are you saying that if you browse to, for example, www.mysite.com, you would like people to be redirected to www.mysite.com/directory/welcome.html?

Or are you saying that if you browse to www.mysite.com/directory/welcome.html, you’re being redirected to www.mysite.com?

Or are you saying that if you put [[~2]] in a document, it’s generating "/" as the URL instead of "/directory/welcome.html"?

My site is http://www.example.com
site_start is #2 (full url /directory/welcome.html)
When I enter to my site at http://www.example.com, I would like to redirect to the full url as:
http://www.example.com/directory/welcome.html
But, because this ressource id 2 is the site_start value, modx redirect my request http://www.example.com/directory/welcome.html to the root http://www.example.com/

always vague ?

OK that makes it clearer, thanks.

For your first request, I’m guessing (someone else may be able to correct me here) that you’ll need to redirect requests for / to /directory/welcome.html at the Apache level.

I can’t say I’ve noticed your second issue - I’ll give it a try on my install when I get home later this evening.

I don’t want to do a redirection in the apache level under the .htaccess file, because if my customer change the alias I must update the .htaccess file.

My solution is:

WEB (context)
directory (1)
welcome (2)
about (3)

site_start = 1
using the FirstChildRedirect in the #1 ressource, and it work !! but, I don’t like this method.

Simple question:
Why a ressource (alias) named /mypage.html is remplaced by the ’/’ if this ressource is the site_start value !!

Low

Don’t make that page your site_start then; you can make a simple hidden WebLink Resource your site_start that points at Resource 2. It will then redirect users to the resource with id 2 when someone goes to /.

Disclaimer: This may or may not be good for SEO AFAIK, but I am still telling you how to accomplish this anyway.

Well, I use context for multiple domains, and for each context, I use a site_start (maybe a bad solution).
At the root, just one ’content’ ressource as site_start and the FirstChildRedirect snippet, well, it work.
If my site_start is, and for all my site/context define as 1, an error occur when I reach the root level of each domain.

I would like to disabled the redirection to the ’/’ when I call the url of the site_start ressource, impossible ?