Hey guys,
I'm wondering if a MODX installation on a webhost configured with 2 domains (1 aliasing another) will work without a hitch? This is the scenario I'm facing right now:
domainname-1.com (Primary Domain, configured with webhost)
domainname-2.com (Alias, points to domainname-1.com's webhost)
Visitors accessing domainname-2.com will see what domainname-1.com's contents but retains domainname-2.com in the URL address bar. Do I need to do anything to MODX to make it work properly in this setup? In other words, I just need the two domains to access a single MODX installation. Anyone faced this scenario before?
Cheers,
Les
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Yes; it works just fine. All you need is to set up your DNS records appropriately.
Hmm.. so it works, I just have a small problem. Since I ran the install script via domainname-1.com (I'm thinking this has something to do with it), going to domainname-2.com and viewing the site is no problem, however, since I used [~#~] in my chunks, the generated links are still domainname-1.com. Is there anyway to change this based on alias so that if users visited domainname-2.com, links generated still refer to that?
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So if a visitor comes in on domain1.com all links should say this, while if they come in on domain2.com all links should say that?
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It should do that by itself; I've had to do some .htaccess fiddling to get it to stop doing it!
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It is probably due to caching; try having the Wayfinder snippet uncached (although that will slow the site down it shouldn't be enough to notice)
Hmm.. how strange lol! I also didn't activate the part in the default .htaccess file about automatically adding in the www since I thought that would make the domain name in the URL fixed to a specific value.
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If the page is requested from domain1.com and is cached, then of course all the (cached) links will be with domain1.com, no matter how the page is subsequently requested. If the domain will be variable, then anything that generates URLs will have to be uncached. This would include Wayfinder and Ditto.
Hmm... good point. So I need to uncache to make this work? But this'll mean sacrificing performance, right?
