Friendly URLs

Where is /~mycomputer/ in the URL coming from?

In the unix comand line the pwd is:


~/sites/moddy/modx-0961p2

in the browser its actually this:

http://mycomputer.local/~mycomputer/moddy/modx-0961p2/

Hope this helps.

I would assume that your RewriteBase value should be /~mycomputer/moddy/modx-0961p2/ then, not just /moddy/modx-0961p2/

nope, tried that and a whole range of variations. Seems like it’s something else. I’ve even added

AllowOverride ALL

in Apache and nothing. Where else could I look?

Could this be a Mac problem?

No, rewrite only works with "real" domains, not the ~directory type. I forget the actual terminology for it, but that won’t work. I’ve often run across it while setting up a new site on a new domain before the nameserver changes were globally disseminated, and have to wait to set up the friendly URLs.

So it should work when I upload to my remote server with bona fide domain? That’s a relief then. I thought I was going mad. Many thanks.

Quote from: Hammer at May 17, 2008, 07:23 AM

So it should work when I upload to my remote server with bona fide domain? That’s a relief then. I thought I was going mad. Many thanks.

It should. I’m running MAMP on my Mac and couldn’t get FURLs to work, but when I upload a site to the live server and turn on FURLs in the Manager Configuration, it works. It’s just one of those things I had to trust.

There could still be issues getting them to work on the live server. You should setup a test instance on your host account to make sure you have the right settings before launching your website.

Quote from: ER at May 17, 2008, 07:34 AM

Quote from: Hammer at May 17, 2008, 07:23 AM

So it should work when I upload to my remote server with bona fide domain? That’s a relief then. I thought I was going mad. Many thanks.

It should. I’m running MAMP on my Mac and couldn’t get FURLs to work, but when I upload a site to the live server and turn on FURLs in the Manager Configuration, it works. It’s just one of those things I had to trust.

There could still be issues getting them to work on the live server. You should setup a test instance on your host account to make sure you have the right settings before launching your website.

I’ve been running MAMP on my new Mac for the past 45 days and friendly URL’s work perfectly; that’s definitely not the problem. Has nothing to do with the Mac, and everything to do with the user-based URL configuration setup in Entropy’s Apache configuration.

It’s definitely not a mac problem. I’m running MODx on the Apache installation that comes with every mac. I’m even using the User Directory.
The Site is located in:
/Users/myname/Sites/modxsite

The Rewrite Base is:
/~myname/modxsite/

Other than that you won’t need to modify your .htaccess file!
If that doesn’t work, you might have a problem with your permission bits on the folder? Try setting it to 0755 for a start?