[solved] site_url returns '/'

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macroman Reply #1, 14 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

Whenever I call [[!++site_url]] or $modx->getOption('site_url') all I get is '/' (without the quotes).

According to the thread below, it should return the full website url.
https://forums.modx.com/thread/31534/revolution-solved-quick-question-standard-way-to-retrieve-the-base-url

I am using Revo and furl. Here is the furl content of the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(fr|de|es)?(\/)?(.*)$ index.php?c=$1&q=$3 [L,QSA]
php_value display_errors 1

This is also set in the head of each page:

<base href="[[!++site_url]]" />

but the final value is this:

<base href="/" />

I have checked under system settings and I couldn't find this setting, so I created it with the correct value, but [[!++site_url]] still only returns '/'.

What could be wrong here? I have been working on this for hours now.

One other thing I noted is the following code will not return the correct value either:

$modx->makeUrl($id,'','','full');

David

This question has been answered by macroman. See the first response.

[ed. note: macroman last edited this post 14 years, 7 months ago.]

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anso Reply #2, 14 years, 7 months ago

Hello

Make sure RewriteBase points to the directory where you installed MODX.
# E.g., "/modx" if your installation is in a "modx" subdirectory. (RewriteBase /modx)
Cheers

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macroman Reply #3, 14 years, 7 months ago

Thanks anso, but if I set RewriteBase to my directory which is '/var/www/modx.revolution' then the apache server returns '500: Internal Server Error'.

Is there anything else I can try?

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macroman Reply #4, 14 years, 7 months ago

Update:
OK, all the modx files are in the base of the web directory, so RewriteBase is supposed to be '/'.
I've checked the other settings like http_host and url_scheme and they're fine.
I notice that site_url is defined like so in the config:

$site_url= $url_scheme . $http_host . MODX_BASE_URL;
    define('MODX_SITE_URL', $site_url);

I've tried hardcoding the url like this:

define('MODX_SITE_URL', 'http://192.168.2.82:49494/');

(ignore the '<a href' bit in the code above, this forum adds that in.) but site_url is still '/'. It seems as if this is being overwritten somewhere down the line. Not sure why though,

David

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macroman Reply #5, 14 years, 7 months ago

Bump. I still haven't got any closer to solving this.

How is it that even when I create a system setting called site_url and populate it with my web address, I still only get a relative path of '/'?

What part of the core can I look at to try and see why this doesn't work?

Really, really desperate to get this fixed as I don't want to go and start hacking the core apart to make a work around.

David

discuss.answer

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macroman Reply #6, 14 years, 7 months ago

OK. The problem was there was a setting of 'site_url' in a context that was created for the babel multi-lingual addon. It was set to '/', hence the result I was getting. Removing this setting solved my problem.

Answered [solved] site_url returns '/'