Unable to remove "/cms/" from all URLs with mod_rewrite

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Euro Coding Simulator 2012 Reply #1, 13 years ago

In a nutshell, I want my entire MODX installation to be accessible only from https://REMOVED.net (the root of the domain) instead of https://REMOVED.net/cms/.
This is what my web root looks like:

drwxr-xr-x cgi-bin/
drwxr-xr-x cms/               <- MODX
+ drwxr-xr-x cms/modx         <- Core
+ drwxr-xr-x cms/modxadmin    <- Manager
drwxr-xr-x forums/            <- XenForo
drwxr-xr-x wiki/              <- MediaWiki
-rw-r--r-- .htaccess
-rw-r--r-- robots.txt

After trying incessantly for around five hours, I gave up, did a clean install of 2.2.9-pl advanced, and reset my .htaccess files to a cleaner slate. Does anyone here have any idea as to how I can get this to work? The furthest I got was having the MODX front end accessible both with and without "/cms/" in the URL, and the back end accessible only with "/cms/" in theURL.

.htaccess in public_html (webroot):

Options -Indexes -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Remove www prefix
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.REMOVED.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://REMOVED.net/$1 [R,L]

# Force SSL
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://REMOVED.net/$1 [R,L]

# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

# Output compression
php_flag zlib.output_compression On
php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

# Other stuff
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

.htaccess in public_html/cms:

Options -Indexes -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Set web root
RewriteBase /cms

# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

# Output compression
php_flag zlib.output_compression On
php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5

Other info:

MODX Version: 2.2.9-pl (advanced)
PHP Version: 5.4.19
Database (MySQL, SQL Server, etc) Version: 5.5.32-cll - MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Additional Server Info: Apache 2.4.6
Installed MODX Add-ons: CodeMirror

[ed. note: euro_coding_simulator_2012 last edited this post 13 years ago.]

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Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 13 years ago

I don't think you'll want "RewriteBase /cms" in the .htaccess in the webroot, instead I'd suggest changing:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

to

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cms/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

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Euro Coding Simulator 2012 Reply #3, 13 years ago

Quote from: markh at Sep 07, 2013, 01:04 PM

I don't think you'll want "RewriteBase /cms" in the .htaccess in the webroot, instead I'd suggest changing:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
to
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cms/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

I appreciate the tip, but nothing changed when I did that. Do you have any other pointers?

(Regardless, I've left that change intact for now.)

Edit: The session issue is resolved, but I am still unable to get FURLs to work properly. I can access the front end both with and without "/cms/" in the URL. The same is true for the manager's login screen, accessible at REMOVED.net/manager/; however, once I log in and get to the dashboard, the URL is changed to REMOVED.net/cms/manager. Looking around at various links within the manager, it seems MODX is still generating all URLs with "/cms/" in them (e.g. Site -> View).

I don't want "/cms/" to be present in any URL within MODX. [ed. note: euro_coding_simulator_2012 last edited this post 13 years ago.]