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    aladage Reply #11, 17 years, 2 months ago
    I think I need to revise my "competent" PHP claim, hehe. I’m understanding the concepts (and I really appreciate all your help, by the way), but I can’t seem to get the syntax correct. Here’s what I’ve got so far. Please don’t laugh, because I know this isn’t even close to right, but can you help me understand what I’m doing wrong? Besides the completely wrong formatting, what I’m not sure about is how to remove the current site’s root address (www.example2.com) and replace it with the new site’s address (www.example1.com). Also, will I need the trailing slash between the root and the subdirectory?


    $current = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$other = "http://www.example1.com/"
$new = $current - $modx->config['site_start']
$url = $other + $new

// Get a reference to the event
$e = & $modx->Event;
switch ($e->name) {
   case "OnPageNotFound":
       $modx->sendRedirect($url)
    break;
}
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      sottwell Reply #12, 17 years, 2 months ago
      $modx->config[’site_start’] will be the ID of the document specified to be the home page, usually 1. I don’t think you want that.
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        sottwell Reply #13, 17 years, 2 months ago
        Put 
        echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

        in the plugin and see what exactly you get. It should just be the URI, minus the domain part. So the whole URL to feed the sendRedirect function would be 
        'www.example1.com' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
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          sottwell Reply #14, 17 years, 2 months ago
          Ok, here’s mine that worked; keep in mind that my local MODx installation is in a subdirectory of my web root, so my REQUEST_URI needed to get the first part (1.0-5352) removed. You won’t need that part unless your installation is also in a subdirectory.
          $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$array = split('/', $uri);
$url = 'http://www.sottwell.com/' . $array[2];

$modx->sendRedirect($url);


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            aladage Reply #15, 17 years, 2 months ago
            It works!!! I can’t thank you enough. It feels really good to develop something from scratch like this, even if I did need a ton of help. This will solve a lot of headaches for me down the road, and hopefully it will make the switching back and forth of URLs even more transparent to the user.

            My end result is exactly like yours, except without the array:

            $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$url = 'http://www.example1.com/' . $uri;

$modx->sendRedirect($url);


            Thanks again. I’m new to this sort of original creation, but is this something that should go in the repository or the wiki, or do you think it’s too specific to be of much use to anyone else?
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              mrhaw Reply #16, 17 years, 2 months ago
              This is sure worth a post in the wiki!!

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                aladage Reply #17, 17 years, 2 months ago
                Wow -- it’s amazing how much good stuff is buried on here. I love MODx, but I do wish the "extras" were more organized and easier to track down. Thanks for the tip. I’ll see if I can work this solution into a how-to for the wiki sometime soon.