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Friendly URL Issue - Number 2 in Address? Page 404?

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    deadevil13 Reply #1, 14 years, 6 months ago
    Hi

    I've just set up friendly URL's using the following:
    http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Using+Friendly+URLs

    I asked my hosting company (HostGator) to change...

    #LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so

    to

    LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so

    However something still isn't working - because when I hit 'view' (in ModX) it returns a 404

    Here is an example page:
    http://information-emporium.co.cc/2/newpage/

    Also why is there a number "2" in there?



    Thanks

    Dan
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      microcipcip Reply #2, 14 years, 6 months ago
      Also why is there a number "2" in there?

      When you configure Friendly Urls AFTER that you have already created the pages, MODX uses the id of the resource instead of the "friendly" version. You need to open the container page, "2" and save it, in this way it should create the friendly url version.

      About the 404 error:
      1. Do you have the website in the root or in a folder?
      2. Do you have <base href="[ [!++site_url] ]" /> in the header?
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        deadevil13 Reply #3, 14 years, 6 months ago
        Yeah I have <base href="[ [!++site_url] ]" /> in the header of the template....

        Still 404 :/
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          microcipcip Reply #4, 14 years, 6 months ago
          1. Do you have the website in the root or in a folder (in the server)?
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            pdincubus Reply #5, 14 years, 6 months ago
            Source view of your homepage shows this:

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


            There should be no spaces between the square brackets and no exclamation mark, it should be:

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


            All your menu items seem to be pointing to this broken base_href and an unnamed anchor # which will not go anywhere.

            Have you also ensured that you have renamed ht.access in the root folder to .htaccess - otherwise friendly URLs cannot be rewritten?

            The number two in the url you mention could be caused by a page not being titled correctly (looks like the parent of page "newpage").

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              microcipcip Reply #6, 14 years, 6 months ago
              He did have the right base tag before, I think he got confused because I pasted it with spaces in my comment. It had 404 error even with the right base though.
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                pdincubus Reply #7, 14 years, 6 months ago
                Quote from: microcipcip at Apr 24, 2012, 09:09 AM
                He did have the right base tag before, I think he got confused because I pasted it with spaces in my comment. It had 404 error even with the right base though.


                Hmm. Likely a .htaccess fault? 404s all the time if it's not renamed from ht.access smiley
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                  deadevil13 Reply #8, 14 years, 6 months ago
                  Hi

                  Yeah okay got the correct base href in the header now

                  Still 404'ing however.

                  Ignore the menu links - i know they don't go anywhere at the moment smiley

                  For testing purposes use:

                  http://information-emporium.co.cc/items/
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                    pdincubus Reply #9, 14 years, 6 months ago
                    Did you check the .htaccess file in the root folder of the site?
                    What is the resource ID of the "items" page?
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                      deadevil13 Reply #10, 14 years, 6 months ago
                      A-ha!

                      Yes it was the .htaccess file. For reference this is now the WORKING contents:

                      # Friendly URLs Part
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
# Force all pages to go to www.domain.com for SEO
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.information-emporium\.co.cc [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.information-emporium.co.cc/$1 [R=301,L]
# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
# Additional Settings Follow
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary