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SEO Friendly URL's - OMG!

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    brianjoe Reply #1, 16 years, 3 months ago
    Hi people!

    Im having huge trouble understanding how to make SEO friendly urls.

    I’ve seen lots of post around the net with various .htaccess content, but what is the correct one? huh

    My .htaccess looks like this:
    # For Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


    And in my modx 1.0.4 it’s set to

    Yes
    *Empty*
    .html
    Yes
    Yes
    No
    Yes

    Heeeelp........!!
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      sottwell Reply #2, 16 years, 3 months ago
      With the most common Linux/Apache type platform, the ht.access that comes with MODx can simply be renamed to .htaccess. About the only thing you would need to do is edit the RewriteBase line if MODx is installed in a subdirectory rather than in the web root.

      However, you don’t mention which version of MODx you are using, nor what OS or web server platform you’re working with.
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        brianjoe Reply #3, 16 years, 3 months ago
        I’m using MODX 1.0.4 - I just downloaded it today.

        Im on Win7.. Apache server..

        I just tried changing what you said, still no luck.. Why does it have to be this hard? sad
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          Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #4, 16 years, 3 months ago
          Do you have mod_rewrite enabled? ..

          What errors exactly you get? If any.
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            brianjoe Reply #5, 16 years, 3 months ago
            I dont get any errors at all, it’s like it doesnt know .htaccess is there. I did change it to .htaccess in both root and in manager/

            Now this is .htaccess in manager:
            # For unexpected logouts in multi-server/cloud environments see:
# http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Friendly+URL+Solutions

RewriteEngine Off

<IfModule mod_security.c>
# Turn the filtering engine Off
SecFilterEngine Off
</IfModule>


            And the .htaccess in root:
            # For full documentation and other suggested options, please see
# 

http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Friendly+URL+Solutions
# including for 

unexpected logouts in multi-server/cloud environments
# and especially for the first 

three commented out rules

#php_flag register_globals Off
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
#php_value date.timezone Europe/Moscow

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase modx-test/ # Fix Apache internal dummy connections from breaking 

[(site_url)] cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ 

[NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Rewrite domain.com -> www.domain.com -- used with SEO 

Strict URLs plugin
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www

\.example\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# Exclude 

/assets and /manager directories and images from rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^

(manager|assets)/*$ - [L]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico)$ - [L]

# For Friendly 

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

# Reduce server overhead by enabling 

output compression if supported.
#php_flag zlib.output_compression On
#php_value 

zlib.output_compression_level 5


            I’m sorry if this is not correct, I’m not good at this right now.
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              Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #6, 16 years, 3 months ago
              Looks like its broken, please copy paste the following, for the root .htaccess

              # For full documentation and other suggested options, please see
# http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Friendly+URL+Solutions
# including for unexpected logouts in multi-server/cloud environments
# and especially for the first three commented out rules

#php_flag register_globals Off
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
#php_value date.timezone Europe/Moscow

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Fix Apache internal dummy connections from breaking [(site_url)] cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Rewrite domain.com -> www.domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# Exclude /assets and /manager directories and images from rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^(manager|assets)/*$ - [L]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico)$ - [L]

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

# Reduce server overhead by enabling output compression if supported.
#php_flag zlib.output_compression On
#php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5
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                brianjoe Reply #7, 16 years, 3 months ago
                It still doesnt work. In my nav menu, say my "contact" normally has index.php?id=5 but now changes to contact.html when I set SEO Friendly URLS on, but it still does not work.

                I get this message:
                Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404

localhost
08-07-2010 22:35:03
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
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                  sottwell Reply #8, 16 years, 3 months ago
                  I presume that modx-test is the subdirectory MODx is installed into. That should be
                  RewriteBase /modx-test

                  That file has a lot of places where the lines are broken; this is how the file should actually look.
                  # For full documentation and other suggested options, please see
# http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Friendly+URL+Solutions
# including for unexpected logouts in multi-server/cloud environments
# and especially for the first three commented out rules

#php_flag register_globals Off
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
#php_value date.timezone Europe/Moscow

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /modx-test

# Fix Apache internal dummy connections from breaking [(site_url)] cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Rewrite domain.com -> www.domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# Exclude /assets and /manager directories and images from rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^(manager|assets)/*$ - [L]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico)$ - [L]

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

# Reduce server overhead by enabling output compression if supported.
#php_flag zlib.output_compression On
#php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

                  The /manager directory doesn’t really need it; there are rules here to exclude the /manager directory from the rewrite process.
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                    Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #9, 16 years, 3 months ago
                    [edit] Susan beat me to it! tongue


                    Can you tell me filesystem path and apache root path?

                    eg. c:/apache/root/
                    eg. c:/apache/root/modx

                    If you have it inside /modx, you have to change this line:
                    RewriteBase /

                    to this:
                    RewriteBase /modx
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                      brianjoe Reply #10, 16 years, 3 months ago
                      Thanks, but it still doesnt work. It can’t find the site.

                      Is it something in the Administration panel I’m doing wrong? undecided