Problem with 2.2.7 Symlinks in different context & FURLs

It seems that updating from 2.1.3 to 2.2.7 has broken some things with symlinks.

Website structure is that we have an additional context for mobile devices which gets served from a subfolder /mobile

Any resource that is a symlink in the mobile context since updating, none of the links get generated. Meaning, in the main navigation menu for example a link to the 'discover..' page is set as: [[~240]] yet when viewing a page that is setup as a symlink the href returned is blank. If we look at a page that is a normal document resource using the same template, it creates and writes the href correctly and all links work.

Resource/page setup as a symlink:
http://www.visitgrandcounty.com/mobile/discover-grand-county/

Resource/page that is a normal document:
http://www.visitgrandcounty.com/mobile/activities/

Both use the same template, the symlink page none of the links are written.. they are all turning up blank. The normal document all links function and are written correctly.

This particular issue has turned up in two sites that are setup similarly under 2.2.7

Anyone have any ideas what's causing this? My thought it's a bug between the context, symlinks and FURLs but have no clue how to go about fixing or if it's a known bug?


[ed. note: scitekmike last edited this post 13 years, 4 months ago.]

I was able to work around this by calling makeUrl in a snippet, see this post: https://forums.modx.com/thread/83913/inter-context-links-disappear-in-upgrade-to-2-2-7#dis-post-466308

Quote from: esnyder at May 21, 2013, 05:02 PM

I was able to work around this by calling makeUrl in a snippet, see this post: https://forums.modx.com/thread/83913/inter-context-links-disappear-in-upgrade-to-2-2-7#dis-post-466308

Thanks! I might have to downgrade as there are a lot of links being generated by other snippets - wayfinder, breadcrumbs and getresources... do you think this would work within those snippets' template chunks?

Sounds like this could be a bug. Has it been reported to the tracker?

Quote from: dinocorn at May 22, 2013, 03:14 AM

Sounds like this could be a bug. Has it been reported to the tracker?

I have not submitted it to the bug tracker and in some of my searching didn't happen to see anything there. I'll try and submit it.

Seems to be a bug. I mirrored the site then downgraded to 2.2.6 and the links work as expected.

Good to know please log it

I've submitted it http://tracker.modx.com/issues/9942

do you think this would work within those snippets' template chunks?

I believe it will work, but it's probably better to do as you've done - revert to 2.2.6 and wait for a fix.

In my case, I only had cross-context links in one place anyway, so I just had to replace one link with the snippet. That link was inside a template chunk and it works fine now.

This is a bug and will be resolved very shortly in a 2.2.8 release. You can see the patches at https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/compare/v2.2.7-pl...release-2.2 [ed. note: opengeek last edited this post 13 years, 4 months ago.]