How to display the absolute url for canonical link when Frendly URLs are enabled

Hi! I would like to display the absolute url as canonical in the head of the website, but I couldn't find the way to do that if friendly urls are enabled. Also I have enabled "Use Friendly Alias Path" setting.

This is my code:



This returns the friendly url of the page.

Thanks for the tips in advance. [ed. note: ispasov last edited this post 12 years, 6 months ago.]

What exactly does the following output?

Quote from: davidpede at Mar 11, 2014, 10:49 AM

What exactly does the following output?

<link rel="canonical" href="[[++site_url]][[~[[*id]]]]">

This outputs the full friendly URL of the resource.

Quote from: paulp at Mar 11, 2014, 11:54 AM

<link rel="canonical" href="[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]">

This outputs the full friendly URL of the resource also.

When you say 'full friendly URL of the resource' do you mean 'http://www.website.com/some/page.html' or '/some/page.html'?

Quote from: davidpede at Mar 11, 2014, 12:24 PM

When you say 'full friendly URL of the resource' do you mean 'http://www.website.com/some/page.html' or '/some/page.html'?

I mean the first, the full url - .

The second type ('/some/page.html') I can get if I write:

And may I make my question pore concrete:

Do I need the absolute URL as a canonical link if it's not active link and points to 404 page. I mean that modx is not like drupal where http://website.com/node/6 is active link and points directly to the friendly url - for example http://website.com/category/page.html ?

If friendly url's are enabled and

and

are outputting

then that is correct behavior.

Tbh I'm not understanding what you are trying to do as I'm not familiar with Drupal.

Quote from: davidpede at Mar 11, 2014, 12:50 PM

Tbh I'm not understanding what you are trying to do as I'm not familiar with Drupal.

Well maybe I am wrong but as far as I know about canonical links they have to be urls which are static and never change. So I want to inform the search engines that this is the static link and if the url of the resource has changed (the resource is moved under different parent resource) the canonical url stays the same.

Maybe someone could give me better approach to do this.