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strange behaviour with SEF after folder duplication

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    MrDutchy Reply #1, 19 years, 6 months ago
    One of our websites utilizes SEF urls which was working fine and Wayfinder snippet for the navigation. The MODx version is 0.9.5 running on a UNIX server.

    The problems started when I accidentially duplicated a folder containing all of the documents. Afer doing so and deleting it (without purging) all of the links would not work anymore.

    Only the starting page opens and every subpage i click in the navigation starts to link to the start page as well. (Note though: I use that page for Site start,Error page and the Unauthorized page - I know this is a bad practice, sorry).

    Now the weird part is: If I undelete the duplicate folder everything works again.

    The only way that the site works with the duplicate folder deleted is when i turn of SEF.

    If anyone has some ideas, I’d be happy to hear them. Thanks in advance!
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      opengeek Reply #2, 19 years, 6 months ago
      Does it work if you purge them and refresh the site cache?
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        MrDutchy Reply #3, 19 years, 6 months ago
        Quote from: OpenGeek at Apr 11, 2007, 11:01 AM

        Does it work if you purge them and refresh the site cache?

        Thanks for your reply Jason. This afternoon when the problem occured I had that idea myself but I wasn’t willing to take the risk at that time. But after some reconsideration: I guess could give it a shot (after backing up the MySQL database). If I resume my work on that site on monday I will most likely do so.
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          rasc Reply #4, 19 years, 5 months ago
          Please check whether the alias fields of "concurrent" documents resulting in duplication are the same. THAT was a problem for me some weeks ago when I duplicated folders with documents in them. Duplicated aliases result in some errors like not-working links or documents that are unable to delete ...
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            MrDutchy Reply #5, 19 years, 5 months ago
            Quote from: rasc at Apr 30, 2007, 03:38 PM

            Please check whether the alias fields of "concurrent" documents resulting in duplication are the same. THAT was a problem for me some weeks ago when I duplicated folders with documents in them. Duplicated aliases result in some errors like not-working links or documents that are unable to delete ...
            In my absence my colleage tried just that and it seems to have solved it indeed.