Friendly URLs and htaccess , manager interface is unreachable

Hi,

I enabled Friendly URLs. At first it did not work, until I put the following in my .htaccess file:



However, when I go to http://www.mysite.com/modx/manager/ , instead of the manager interface I get the homepage...

How can get the manager interface ’back’? Do I have to add an exception for the /manager/ folder and if so, how do you do that?

(Edit) some clarification:
I have a website at /var/www/html/ and a ’test’ environment for modx in /var/www/html/modx/

For clarity and for search engines, I want to ’rewrite’ the URL’s under the directory /modx/ but not the webpages (and pages in subfolders) directly under / since there is an existing website there. Also, manager currently is at /var/www/html/modx/manager

Okay... I tried a long time, but I still cannot get this Friendly URLs to work... either it gives a Server 500 error, OR the resulting page in the ModX environment is always the homepage...

Did you try this:



You have to place it in the "modx" folder

Quote from: Ronald at Aug 12, 2008, 06:31 AM

Did you try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /modx/

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

You have to place it in the "modx" folder

Hi,

yes apparently I was looking in the root folder, so the wrong folder! I did not know you could have several .htaccess files in a site...

I changed the RewriteBase rule to point to the modx subdirectory, and it pretty much seems to work now.

Quote from: Darkelve78 at Aug 12, 2008, 06:38 AM

Quote from: Ronald at Aug 12, 2008, 06:31 AM

Did you try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /modx/

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

You have to place it in the "modx" folder

Hi,

yes apparently I was looking in the root folder, so the wrong folder! I did not know you could have several .htaccess files in a site...

I changed the RewriteBase rule to point to the modx subdirectory, and it pretty much seems to work now.

Yes, you can use .htaccess on every folder in a site. For example; in the manager folder of modx is also a .htaccess file to disable mod_rewrite on that folder

I was also using friendly URLs with ’Use friendly alias path’ set to ’YES’. It worked for 1st-level pages but not for 2nd-level (pages having a ’parent’ and ’grandparent’ container)... until I added this:



Strangely, this only works if I put it RIGHT after <head> , does not work if I put it in another spot in <head>...</head>

I found the exact answer on this forum, but still find it a bit strange/odd... x)