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Friendly URLs with ~ (Tildes) - not working :(

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    B-RaD Reply #1, 19 years, 2 months ago
    Hey everyone,

    I’m setting a new site, and I have to keep the tilde in my address.

    My home address is:
    http://sub.domain.net/~user/

    I’ve set my .htaccess perfectly fine, and the mod_rewrite engine is loaded within apache.  This is my .htaccess:

    Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


    Am i doing something wrong? I’ve never dealt with special characters, especially the ~ sign.  Is there something special that I must do? Any thoughts?? All help is GREATLY appreciated!

    Oh, I am getting 404 errors whenever i try to reach:
    http://sub.domain.net/~user/page.html
    My Tools->Configuration->Friendly URLS is set to use aliases, which is called page. There shouldn’t be any problems, as I did this with 2 other sites recently, but this site is set up a bit different. Again, thank you!
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      opengeek Reply #2, 19 years, 2 months ago
      This has nothing to do with the tilde in the URL; the problem more likely is your server configuration is not reporting the host name correctly. You should be able to force it to something specific (i.e. http://sub.domain.net/~user/) by setting the site_url value in your config file, or by authoring a plugin OnWebPageInit that sets the value of $modx->config[’site_url’] specifically.
        Jason Coward
        Chief Architect @ MODX
        http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek
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        B-RaD Reply #3, 19 years, 2 months ago
        OpenGeek,

        I tried editing the config file and changed the specific path, site came up just fine but still getting 404 errors when trying to navigate away from the index.

        I didn’t change the paths or anything, do I need to do that?
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          opengeek Reply #4, 19 years, 2 months ago
          What are the links being generated look like that are returning the 404’s?
            Jason Coward
            Chief Architect @ MODX
            http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek
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            B-RaD Reply #5, 19 years, 2 months ago
            The links look good. They are exactly what they should be..

            http://sub.domain.com/~user/about.html is the About Us Page, with alias: about


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              rambat Reply #6, 19 years, 2 months ago
              Perhaps it is a stupid question, but: Allows your server .htaccess files? I say this because it took me several hours of tests before giving account of which the problem was in the server. (Now SOLVED)

              After solving the problem, I added a Troubleshooting section to the how-to ’Friendly URLs Guide’ in the wiki.

              Hope this help,
              Ramon
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                B-RaD Reply #7, 19 years, 2 months ago
                Success!

                Had to change the RULE, not the base, as I originally thought..
                New .htaccess file:

                Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~user/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


                Thanks everyone smiley
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                  Jul Reply #8, 13 years, 3 months ago
                  Changing the RewriteRule and not the RewriteBase worked for me too. Thanks.

                  The only thing that I cannot get rid off is "/~user/" in the path.
                  Any way to hide it?