Friendly Urls

Hi,

A previous developer I worked with used ModX for a clients site. The client has recently gotten in touch to get the URLs' to be SEO friendly.

So I found the guide on the ModX website, followed it step by step and still nothing. The URLs' are still index.php?id=

Another developer I work with has also checked and everything is the same as the ModX guide says, but yet it is still not working.

Don't know what else I can do.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

Is the site in a subfolder? If so, you'll need this in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subDirectoryName


Can you post back with the content of your .htaccess file, it's location, site location on the server, and a recap of any site settings you changed.

Also, what version of MODX is the site running on?

Excuse me for butting in, but I think it's more likely that the OP would want:

RewriteBase /

You might just need to delete all the files in the core/cache directory and clear your browser cache and cookies.



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"Rewrite Base" doesn't work.

The ht.access file that MODX installs actually says "RewriteBase"

I thought maybe I'd deleted the space somehow but when I checked a freshly downloaded 2.2.4-pl zip file it has RewriteBase in camel case. I inserted the space, which provided a nice internal server error when I refreshed the page. Back to RewriteBase for me :~}

Sorry, you're right of course. I was focusing on the value, which very rarely needs the subdirectory except on localhost install.



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PLEASE, PLEASE specify the version of MODX you are using.
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Clearing the cache folder worked, partly.

All the submenu links are now fine, part from it having a .html at the end.

But the too menu links are not links to there page. They are coming as blank links, no href value at all.

This has been resolved.

I removed the file extension from the content types and now all links are showing correctly.