FURL Alias Path Confusion

I have:

• FURLs enabled
• Friendly alias path set to 'no'
• Published resources nested within an unpublished container
• manually cleared system cache, and cleared browser cache

What I get is mySite.com/unpublished container/nested-resource.html. Shouldn't this result in a flat URL when navigating to 'nested-resource.html'?

Freezing every nested resource URI is not a viable option.

What I really need is the ability manage directory paths in a straightforward manner. I need to show some while hiding others.

I think you're going to get the path from the tree whatever you do.

What about using First Child Redirect and publishing the container (give it a decent pagetitle/alias), but not allowing actual access to the container? http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/firstchildredirect

Quote from: frogabog at Feb 13, 2015, 04:03 AM

I think you're going to get the path from the tree whatever you do.

Why have a friendly alias path setting at all then? Its wording is specific -- "setting this option to 'yes' will display the full path...". The implication is that if you don't set it, you don't get a full path.

Quote from: frogabog at Feb 13, 2015, 04:03 AM

What about using First Child Redirect and publishing the container (give it a decent pagetitle/alias), but not allowing actual access to the container? http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/firstchildredirect

Thanks for the suggestion. In my case, the nested resources are accessed from gallery pages that are in a different part of the site tree. The resource thumbs are fed via tags and getResources into the galleries, and because tags are used a single resource can appear in multiple galleries (i.e. I avoid duplication).