[solved] Friendly URLS - help desperately needed...

I’ve been trying and failing to get friendly URLs to work... I have read the Wiki Friendly URL guide, but still can’t seem to get it right...

Here is my set-up... it is a university department with an Apache server for a number of individual staff member’s websites.

The actual physical location of the files for each person is

/home/www/DOCS/people/<name>

where <name> is a (Unix "ln") link to a location on the disk server.

In my particular area, I have located MODx at the top level ... thus

/home/www/DOCS/people/gordon/assets

is one way of getting to the assets directory.


The URL that is used to access these things is

http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~gordon
OR
http://people.csse.uwa.edu.au/gordon

which jumps directly to "index.php" and so on.


So what is the RewriteBase? I think that "/home/www/DOCS" is the Apache root so I tried using "people/gordon" as the RewriteBase, but no dice...

In fact, I have tried pretty much every combination that I can think of for the RewriteBase and for the RewriteRule...

On *SOME* combinations, I manage to produce an error/warning from the web server

"mod_rewrite’s internal redirect status : 0/10"

but it doesn’t seem to do anything...


Help greatly appreciated...

Gordon

Apache should be taking care of the base location for each person, so the default values in htaccess should work; i.e. something like this...

Well, the defaults didn’t work...

The GOOD NEWS is that I stumbled across a combination that DID work...

RewriteBase: /gordon
RewriteRule: ^(.*)$ /gordon/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

This is using the "people.csse.uwa.edu.au" URL which has a different "site root" from the other URL.

The BAD NEWS is that everything else broke...

- most of it could be fixed by replacing everything in the template and other files that referred to

assets/templates
assets/snippets
assets/galleries

etc

with

[(base_url)]/assets/snippets
[(base_url)]/assets/templates

and so on.


BUT one important remaining thing simply does not work... [~[*id*]~]

Whenever I include that in a sub-folder then the URL that is generated gets the "head" of the sub-folder generated twice...

So if I have a structure with a document with alias "admin" containing a document with alias "test" then the link that is generated is

admin/admin/test.html

I have set "use friendly alias paths" as instructed in the Wiki...

Cheers

Gordon

Quote from: gfroyle at Dec 04, 2006, 01:16 AM

I have set "use friendly alias paths" as instructed in the Wiki...

More good news... after re-reading three hundred forum posts and typing "Friendly URL wrong path" into the search box about five times, I discovered that I need to include

<base href="[(site_url)]" />

into the HEAD element of my template AS WELL as all the other stuff... (I first thought that this was a fix for an earlier version of MODx, not the current situation).



My question is: should the Wiki mention this in its section on friendly alias paths?

My second question is: should *I* just add it to the Wiki?

(I am not used to the Wiki style of collaborative editing, and always feel that the original author might be miffed if I randomly edit their work, possibly introducing errors... just need to know the accepted "wiki-quette")

But, hooray, it all works now..

Gordon

EDIT: Added clarifying remark to Wiki about where to locate the tag, and why it is important.

Your patience, diligence, and willingness to contribute back what you are learning here is duly noted and appreciated Gordon. And don’t feel your efforts are wasted; every person that struggles with and works through issues like these helps expose the weak spots in the product and community. Ultimately it will make MODx that much better...