URL structure with friendly URL's: is the following possible:

Hi,

Is the following structure possibile in Modx?

mydomain.com/page1.php
mydomain.com/page1/childpage.php

That is the default structure for MODX actually, except the default for the parent is mydomain.com/page1/ and mydomain.com/page1/childPage.html when FURL's are enabled. Use your resource tree to create this structure (place children under a parent resource - just drag and drop, set the parent manually from the resource drop down, or right click a parent resource and create). In system settings, set the file extension to php instead of html if you wish to use the php file extension.

To be more precise, make sure Use Friendly Alias Path is also set to yes. Or else all your ordinary resources would ignore their parents:
mydomain.com/childpage.php

Quote from: frogabog at Feb 08, 2013, 05:23 PM

That is the default structure for MODX actually, except the default for the parent is mydomain.com/page1/ and mydomain.com/page1/childPage.html when FURL's are enabled. Use your resource tree to create this structure (place children under a parent resource - just drag and drop, set the parent manually from the resource drop down, or right click a parent resource and create). In system settings, set the file extension to php instead of html if you wish to use the php file extension.

This was exactly how it worked on my test install indeed:
mydomain.com/page1
mydomain.com/page1/childpage.php

However, after fresh install (and copying templates and pages over) on the live site, I do have this however:
mydomain.com/page1.php
mydomain.com/page1/childpage.php

Don't get me wrong, I am very happy with that. But since it is not the correct behaviour of Modx, I am wondering what has happened to behave it this way though. I didn't do anything to the htacces file (except renaming so that Apache recognizes it and uses it, as usual), nor did I fiddle around with other technical options. Nevertheless I wanted to report it, since it is not how Modx uses friendly URL's.

There is a system setting for container_suffix.

But the thing is: I didn't do anything differently with my test install than I did with my live install. So that this suddenly happened surprised me. That's why I don't understand the difference in the friendly URL's between the two installs.