Container not making friendly URL

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jasonabuck Reply #1, 8 years, 8 months ago

I am not sure what I am missing. I can not get my container to show up in the Friendly URL.

http://www.mysite.com/container/pagename.html.

When I go to http://www.mysite.com/pagename.html, it works. When I put in the line above, it doesn't work.

Both the container and page are published. The container checkbox is checked on the container. The container is set as the parent of the childpage (pagename.html)

Any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong?

MODX 2.2.15 on ubuntu (14.04) / AWS-EC2 with MySQL 5.6.23 database in RDS.

TIA

Jason

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donshakespeare Reply #2, 8 years, 8 months ago

System Settings [ Friendly URL (17) ]

Use Friendly Alias Path    --------------    use_alias_path  --------------      No

Setting this option to 'yes' will display the full path to the Resource if the Resource has an alias. For example, if a Resource with an alias called 'child' is located inside a container Resource with an alias called 'parent', then the full alias path to the Resource will be displayed as '/parent/child.html'.

Is this what you are looking for? It is in Revolution, don't know if it is in v. 2.2.15

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jasonabuck Reply #3, 8 years, 8 months ago

I found the System Setting and changed it.

No luck!!

Now when I try to go to the container / page.html I get a 404 error that is the Apache default 404 and not the MODx 404.

http://aws.tsurl.io/members (works) (members is my container folder)

http://aws.tsurl.io/members/ (doesn't work) (non-MODx 404 page)

http://aws.tsurl.io/members/ps-reports.html (doesn't work) (non-MODx 404 page)

http://aws.tsurl.io/ps-reports.html (doesn't work) (MODx 404 page)

Here is my .htaccess rewrites (works until you try to navigate down containers).

# Links to Content with Service Disciplines
RewriteRule ^documents/(\w+)/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$2&PageServiceDiscipline=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^webinars/(\w+)/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$2&PageServiceDiscipline=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^conference-presentations/(\w+)/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$2&PageServiceDiscipline=$1 [L]

# Links to Content Directly
RewriteRule ^documents/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$1  [L]
RewriteRule ^webinars/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$1  [L]
RewriteRule ^conference-presentations/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$1 [L]

# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

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

Please see attached screen shots.

[ed. note: jasonabuck last edited this post 8 years, 8 months ago.]

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jasonabuck Reply #4, 8 years, 8 months ago

This is the MOD_Rewrite that works for me.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /


# Links to Content with Service Disciplines
RewriteRule ^documents/(\w+)/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$2&PageServiceDiscipline=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^webinars/(\w+)/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$2&PageServiceDiscipline=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^conference-presentations/(\w+)/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$2&PageServiceDiscipline=$1 [L]

# Links to Content Directly
RewriteRule ^documents/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$1  [L]
RewriteRule ^webinars/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$1  [L]
RewriteRule ^conference-presentations/(\w+)$ index.php?q=documents.html&DocumentTitle=$1 [L]

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

The last line RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] was different. If found that in the MODx docs located here (https://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/administering-your-site/using-friendly-urls). Thanks for all help.

BTW... thanks to donshakespeare - I think it may have been this MOD_Rewrite and System Setting change that fixed the issue.

Jason.

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etherweave Reply #5, 6 years, 11 months ago

I'm glad to see someone figured this out, though I'm struggling to understand how to adapt this MOD_Rewrite to my own site structure. What does "PageServiceDiscipline" mean in this (I know it's a value related to your site content, but it isn't clear how)? I'm definitely having the same or a similar problem.

I'm running the latest version of ModX Revolution, and when I set "Friendly Alias Path" to "YES" (and restart everything), I get 404s on deep links that use the alias path (e.g. mysite.com/biographies/joe-smith.html).

Michael

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BobRay Reply #6, 6 years, 11 months ago

Are your links all in the form of link tags? (They should be.)

<a href="[[~12]]">Some Page</a>

-- where 12 is the ID of the resource you're linking to.

Also, make sure you have this tag (with the exclamation point) in the head section of all templates:

<base href="[[!++site_url]]" />

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