How do I get friendly URLS to work?

Make sure you check the name of your htaccess file ... as Susan mentioned, it should be ".htaccess" with the period in front (but not the quotes).

Did you change the use friendly alias URL’s setting or anything else in that section? Sounds like the FURL configuration just is not getting set. If it was an htaccess problem you’d still get the proper FURL’s generated on the pages, but they just wouldn’t work because the rewrite engine wouldn’t be able to rewrite them properly.

I’m not sure this is kosher or that it would work, but its what I do for the MODx installs I’ve made and it’s gotten the sef urls to work.

-I uploaded a .zip file called "htaccess_files.zip" download it an unpack it.
-Place the first .htaccess file in the root folder of your MODx install
-Place the other .htaccess file located in the "manager" folder inside the "manager" folder of your modx install
-Delete or rename the htaccess.txt files in your root folder and manager folder

Let me know if that worked!

Best,

Josh

I have to thank every one here for all their help, I stoped trying after a while, I’m going to get back to trying this again,  I download it the zip file and going to try it that way see what happens, and NO I did not change any of the setting on the use friendly URL section all I did was enable it and put the suffix but it would not wok!!! boy simple task has turned out to be a big pain  . Let me keep at it now is more of a personal thing I have to make it work.

Thanks again for all your help and if you can think of anything else that could help everything is appreciated.

ER

All I do is rename the ht.access file that is installed with a MODx installation to .htaccess and then in the Manager, turn on Friendly URLs in Tools/Configuration/Friendly URLs (actually I don’t recall the the order if I do one before the other.) I usually don’t bother with a suffix like .htm or what have you, but that’s up to personal preference.

I select Yes for Use Friendly URLs empty the prefix and suffix fields and leave the rest at default. Obviously the servers I’ve been working off have mod_rewrite enabled, which helps.

More information at the Wiki.

im having the same problem folks.i tried editing the ht.access file and re-saved it as .htaccess.i then tried uploading it into my manager folder but it doesn’t copy across.is there any reason why this doesn’t show up?

When I upload a renamed .htaccess file (or a backup) it "disappears" in my FTP window, and it also disappears if I rename it directly, on the server, within my FTP client. I suspect that .htaccess can be hidden by default on some servers? I’ve gone into server control panels and I can see it there, even though I can’t in my FTP application.

go up to ur ftp and click show hidden files, it should be there if you’ve copied it across properly. My problem is really annoying me now. I’ve gone through the tutorial and edited the .htaccess file where necessary.and ive edited the config properties in my modx, but yet the url still don’t work.i have a product page for example with a a document alias of "product" but now when i type that into the end of the url it just brings up a 404 error. Any ideas people?

Quote from: Darragh23 at Mar 12, 2008, 10:10 AM

My problem is really annoying me now. I’ve gone through the tutorial and edited the .htaccess file where necessary.and ive edited the config properties in my modx, but yet the url still don’t work.i have a product page for example with a a document alias of "product" but now when i type that into the end of the url it just brings up a 404 error. Any ideas people?

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ive edited my .htaccess file and done all the necessary changes to the modx config. however when i go to my site and type in a url without html at the end, the page comes up.but if i type in say for example "product.html" a 404 error comes up.can any1 tell me whats up?the pages seem to be linking alrite but the suffix doesn’t appear at the end of the url.and yes before u ask, I do have it set to ".html".