[SOLVED] Absolute path for links ?

Hello again,

I'm trying to get URLs that are generated from [[~[ [+id] ]]] (spaces added so it is not escaped in the forum) to show as absolute paths. For now, I have made a little chunk with "/modx_folder/" in it. I put that chunk in front any URL in my templates so the links are absolute. Is there native option to generate absolute paths ? If yes, I guess using it would be better than to use a chunk, which is why I'm asking.

In case you're wondering why I'm trying to get absolute paths, it's because on the page "localhost/articles", links to different articles are relative like "articles/category/article_name".
That makes me end up on the page "localhost/articles/articles/category/article_name", which doesn't work. Maybe it's my templates being wrong from the start. No idea.

This is the chunk used to display a list of last articles with getResources, which produces the unwanted relative paths:
Chars were getting escaped by the forum engine. See attachment.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Best regards,
CK [ed. note: conradk last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]

You need to add this to your HEAD for your MODX Templates:



This will resolve your issue with alias path links.

Alternatively, you can have MODX generate individual links as absolute by using this syntax:



or have all links generated this way automatically by setting the default link_tag_scheme in system settings to the value "full".

That said, I recommend starting by adding the base tag. Otherwise, requests to virtual sub-directories within your site will not render your error_page properly when handling 404s.

Oh cool ! Thanks.

I'll try to look harder into the docs next time :s