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Modx doesn't consider port

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    grooveman Reply #1, 14 years, 9 months ago
    Hi,

    I am evaluating modx. I installed it on my box, but ports 80 and 443 are being used by something else. I am using 2 different #’s to represent http and https. I can do most things in the administrative console as expected, but if I navigate to the site, and click on any links I create, it always strips out the port number from the URL, and I therefore get a "page cannot be displayed" error on every link I click. Not good.

    Me thinks it a bug... but maybe there is a way to fix?

    Thanks.

    G

    • Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 14 years, 9 months ago
      Could you set up a base href tag with the port number in it?
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        grooveman Reply #3, 14 years, 9 months ago
        Not as far as I can see. I put a check in "publish" and it put it in the navigation panel.

        Besides... it is bad practice to hardcode the domain name/ip address in the link. Becomes a nightmare if the site is ever ported or the domain name changes. Shouldn’t have to do that for internal links...
        • Ryan Thrash Reply #4, 14 years, 9 months ago
          I don’t think you understood what I was saying. In your header place the following:
          <base href="http://site.com:port/></base>


          Immediately after your opening <head> tag.
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            grooveman Reply #5, 14 years, 9 months ago
            Well, yes, you are right. I didn’t understand what you were saying! Sorry about that.

            But, if you can bear with me for just a little while longer...

            There are 2 problems I have here:

            1) I’m not sure what file you put that line into... wouldn’t that need to occur in the template? (I am thinking here that the template has the <head> declaration in it). Is that in the DB or is that somewhere on the drive? I’m still trying to figure out how modx works here...

            2) I’m natting. Machines on the inside can see the server on the normal http/https ports. It is on the outside they get natted to other ports, because the normal ports are already in use. If I put a line like that in the header, then it would mess up the people on the local network :0/ It really seems like modx shouldn’t take the liberty of rewriting the domain/port portion of the url...

            Thanks.
            • sottwell Reply #6, 14 years, 9 months ago
              It goes in the template, in the <head> part.

              As far as your network configuration, that’s an interesting situation. If the browser has to specify a port number to access the site, then the port number has to be a part of the URL. That’s the standard. How else would you give people a correct URI if the port weren’t a part of it?

              Perhaps use a plugin to add the port number if the client is not coming from your intranet IP address?
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                grooveman Reply #7, 14 years, 9 months ago
                Please bear in mind, I’m evaluating this as a possible solution among other solutions. I cannot find any docs on how modx works, and between trying to figure it out and other CMSs... I haven’t gotten that far. I cannot commit too deeply until we are sure it is what we want to go with.

                The question is, where is the template? Is that somewhere in the db or is that on the file system?

                I do know that Joomla, Drupal, Compact CMS and others are not affected by the port issue. We have them all natted & on other ports as well with no issues.

                I suspect that in modx, that this has something to do with the .htaccess file in the root dir of the install... but I didn’t want to mess with it if it will screw something else up... esp. since that might not be where the problem lay. Was hoping there would be a quick answer for this smiley

                So far, I’m liking modx... I just wish there were some docs to speed along the learning curve.

                Thanks for the help.

                G
                • sottwell Reply #8, 14 years, 9 months ago
                  http://www.sottwell.com/modx-from-the-inside.html
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