Getting Friendly URLs to work

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  identity Reply #131, 19 years, 6 months ago

  The goal isn’t to get index.htm, that is happening.
  
  The goal is to get mydomain.com for links to the home page. If this was being hardcoded, then you would just link to http://mydomain.com or simply to / without the index.htm reference.
  
  mods: by all means, feel free to move to a more appropriate thread if need be.
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  [email protected] Reply #132, 19 years, 6 months ago

  If you mean that you need an easy way to output a link to the site, you could create a snippet and use the $_SERVER variable to get the domain, as follows:
  
  

  <?php
  return '<a href="http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/">[(site_name)]</a>';
  ?>

  
  
  I don’t know of a modx tag that does the same.
  
  Otherwise, I don’t understand your problem.
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  MrDutchy Reply #133, 19 years, 6 months ago

  Quote from: identity at Mar 08, 2007, 01:00 PM

  
  The goal isn’t to get index.htm, that is happening.
  
  The goal is to get mydomain.com for links to the home page. If this was being hardcoded, then you would just link to http://mydomain.com or simply to / without the index.htm reference.
  
  mods: by all means, feel free to move to a more appropriate thread if need be.
  

  
  you might want to have a look at this:
  http://modxcms.com/SEO-Strict-URLs-1335.html
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  identity Reply #134, 19 years, 6 months ago

  Mr.Dutchy,
  
  Excellent. Thanks for drawing my attention. That was exactly what I was looking for.
  
  thanks
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  cliff_ie Reply #135, 19 years, 5 months ago

  Hey, having a problem getting my FURLs to work.
  
  I’m currently moving the site to a new host. They have given us a temporary address so we can get the site up and running on the new server before we send the request to switch from the old host to the new host. Now, my FURLs were working fine on the old server but they are not working at all on the new one. I think I’ve tried everything suggested within this thread to no avail. Then I thought it might have something to do with the temporary address which looks something like this http://servername.hostname.ie/~clientname
  
  I don’t trust that tilda!
  
  Could this be the problem or am I barking up the wrong tree?
  
  Cheers,
  Cliff.
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  [email protected] Reply #136, 19 years, 5 months ago

  That tilda is completely normal on linux/unix machines - it indicates that they’re probably using Apache’s mod_userdir and have placed your content in /home/clientname/public_html.
  Stephan Dale
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  sottwell Reply #137, 19 years, 5 months ago

  However, friendly URLs won’t work until the real domain name is used for the URL. Or if they can be used with the temporary URL like that, I’ve never figured out how.
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  cliff_ie Reply #138, 19 years, 5 months ago

  Quote from: steph at Apr 10, 2007, 05:59 AM

  
  That tilda is completely normal on linux/unix machines - it indicates that they’re probably using Apache’s mod_userdir and have placed your content in /home/clientname/public_html.
  

  
  Okay - cool - thats exactly where the space is alright!
  
  Quote from: sottwell at Apr 10, 2007, 06:07 AM

  
  However, friendly URLs won’t work until the real domain name is used for the URL. Or if they can be used with the temporary URL like that, I’ve never figured out how.
  

  
  Right - that’s a relief! So, just to make sure, when the site is changed over they should just start working again on their own?
  
  Thanks for your help!
  Cliff.
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  [email protected] Reply #139, 19 years, 5 months ago

  They should, yes.
  
  Btw, I’ve got friendly URLs working just fine on two machines - one is my main site, one is a mirror and they have different domain names. The rewrite rules don’t look at the domain name to do anything, so it shouldn’t matter where your site is hosted. There may be a MODx setting or something in your template that looks for the URL (like a base href), but you should be able to change them so that the domain name is never referred to. In fact, it is wise to avoid hard coding a domain name precisely for this reason.
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  cliff_ie Reply #140, 19 years, 5 months ago

  Quote from: steph at Apr 10, 2007, 06:23 AM

  
  They should, yes.
  
  Btw, I’ve got friendly URLs working just fine on two machines - one is my main site, one is a mirror and they have different domain names. The rewrite rules don’t look at the domain name to do anything, so it shouldn’t matter where your site is hosted. There may be a MODx setting or something in your template that looks for the URL (like a base href), but you should be able to change them so that the domain name is never referred to. In fact, it is wise to avoid hard coding a domain name precisely for this reason.
  

  
  Excellent - thanks. I wasn’t using the base href bit anyway (well I was trying it out when I couldn’t get the FURLs working!).
  
  I’ll just have to keep my fingers crossed when the change over happens and a close eye on it!
  
  Cheers,
  Cliff.

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