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andrewjh Reply #1, 15 years, 1 month ago

Hi,

Whenever I enter a URL that's not found on the site, the home page loads but the page URL remains what I entered. For example, if I try to go to www.sitename.com/fubar.html, which doesn't exist, it will display the homepage for www.sitename.com, and the URL will point to www.sitename.com/fubar.html.

How can I correct this? I'm also trying to configure it so that unauthorized access to certain resource groups will redirect to an error page. Currently, this also redirects users in the same way as for pages that aren't found.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Andrew

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benmarte Reply #2, 15 years, 1 month ago

Make a new resource for your 404 page then go to system settings and filter by site and enter the resource id in the 404 error page entry.

That should take care of it.

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andrewjh Reply #3, 15 years, 1 month ago

Thank you!

One more thing though... I don't suppose it's possible to have different error pages for different resource groups? Or a different error page for "Page not found" versus "Access Denied"?

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benmarte Reply #4, 15 years, 1 month ago

Same thing you did for the 404 page can be done for:

Site Unavailable Page
Unauthorized Page

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BobRay Reply #5, 15 years, 1 month ago

Yes, that's definitely possible. I'm assuming that you're using Revolution.

There are two System Events: OnPageNotFound and OnPageUnauthorized. A plugin connected to either event should be able to check the resource group of the current resource and forward the user anywhere you want.

Making the unauthorized page work is tricky in Revo, because trying to access an unauthorized page actually triggers OnPageNotFound by default. There's a section here ("Unauthorized versus Error Page") on how to get around that: http://bobsguides.com/revolution-permissions.html

The plugin code for resource group detection might look something like this:

<?php
$docId = $modx->resource->get('id');
$groupId = '12'; // ID of the resource group
$myNotFoundPage = '33'; // ID of specific "not found" page
$url = $modx->makeUrl($myNotFoundPage,'','','full');

if ($modx->getObject('modResourceGroupResource', array('document_group'=>$groupId, 'document'=>$docId))  ) {
    /* resource is in group */
    $modx->sendRedirect($url);
}

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