subdirectory and site_url

Hey there,

my revo-installation is within a folder called /cms/.

Now, I use virtual hosts and rewrite rules to strip this directory from all urls entered. However, when I am logged into the manager and click onto a preview site I always get the urls with /cms/. Moreover, all the generated links have /cms/ in it.

I changed the site_url for my context so that it disposes of the /cms/-thing. I do not know how MODx generates those links. Well, I know makeUrl, but I don't know how to influence that...

Help is very much appreciated.

Thanks

What do you mean exactly by using "rewrite rules to strip this directory from all urls entered"? It sounds like you might just have some trip-ups here with your Apache configuration.

What's the document root for your site? E.g. http://yoursite.com/ resolves to /home/user/public_html/cms/ ?

And what URL do you use to access the manager? e.g. http://yoursite.com/manager/ ? Or http://yoursite.com/cms/manager/ ?

If you can get static pages resolving the way you want, then my guess is that MODX will follow suit.

I can access all my sites with http://mysite.com/cms/ as well as the manager under http://mysite.com/cms/manager/.

It is fine to access the manager at this url, but it is horrible in terms of furls to have /cms/ in all urls. Therefore I use this rule to remove this from my urls:



The directory I installed those things to is /some/path/document_root/cms/

My biggest question is: Although I already changed my site_url setting to use http://mysite.com without /cms/, all generated links will still have cms in it. [ed. note: chrisissorry last edited this post 14 years, 10 months ago.]

Yeah, I think maybe you should edit this in your VirtualHosts directive to use the /path/to/cms/ as your document root... that way you'd bypass all of this.

If you can't make the change in the VirtualHosts, you have to update your .htaccess. I can't tell you exactly what you need to change in your rewrite rule, but there is a way to do this -- it usually takes me a while to figure out the necessary syntax.