Getting Friendly URLs to work

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  chris# Reply #11, 17 years, 11 months ago

  Hello,
  Well I finished it. I simply modified a perl version I was using to accomidate a
  perl application installer. I’m testing it now against every concievable environment
  MODx could be installed into. I’m also simultateously helping Banzai debug some
  of the themes slated for the 9.5 MODx. I’ll post the diff’s against 9.2.1.
  
  Not bad for having been up for three days w/o sleep.
  
  --Chris H.
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  chris# Reply #12, 17 years, 11 months ago

  Quote from: OpenGeek at May 21, 2006, 08:22 AM

  
  

  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

  
  
  If the web root were /usr/local/www/modx/ then you would prepend /modx/ to the RewriteRule target...
  
  

  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /modx/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

  
  [NOTE: I corrected the reversed information as reported by sottwell, so it should be indicated properly now, even though my ignorance of how mod_alias works didn’t help much here... ]
  

  Indeed. The second example would be correct without mod_alias. But with mod_alias
  in my situation it needs to be converted from:
  
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /modx/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
  
  to:
  
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /board/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
  
  But I guess you already knew that.
  I only mention it in the event that others have similar trouble(s) and need a working example.
  
  Thanks for taking the time.
  
  --Chris H.
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  BlueRonin Reply #13, 17 years, 11 months ago

  I’m on a 1 and 1 server and have never been able to get the rewrite directives to work. Everything returns
  
  error 500: Internal Server Error
  
  Instead of fighting it, I have turned on friendly urls, changed the default extension to .htm and added the following to my .htaccess:
  
  CheckSpelling Off
  AddType application/x-httpd-parse .htm
  Action application/x-httpd-parse "/index.php?q="
  
  I actually found those lines in the phpCMS setup. Seems to work fairly well for my situation. Really don’t understand it well enough to know if there are any drawbacks. If there are, please let me know.
  Michael Henderson
  MODxCMS + Dreamhost P/S + BBEdit
  Safari + Mac OS X 10.8
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  demwunz Reply #14, 17 years, 11 months ago

  @BlueRonin
  
  I tried that too for a site on a 1and1 server - no joy for me... - anyone else have a solution for 1and 1 servers? there tech suppport are a bunch of twits.
  Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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  gc Reply #15, 17 years, 10 months ago

  MODx 0.9.2.1
  Hosted on 1&1 Professional Package
  
  in your .htaccess file
  
  summary:
  - comment out the zlib compression lines
  - add ’/’ in front of ’index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]’
  
  

  #php_flag zlib.output_compression On
  #php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5
  
  # Rewrite directives here for SEF (Search Engine Friendly) URLs
  
  RewriteEngine On
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  
  # If your MODx installation is in a subdirectory, change the following line to match the physical
  # path to the "root" of the site as follows:
  # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path/to/subdirectory/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
  
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
  
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  demwunz Reply #16, 17 years, 10 months ago

  Hey gc,
  
  thanks! - thing is it worked for top level pages, but not for sub level pages i.e
  
  - index
  - section
  - section
  - - sub page (not working)
  
  I got a reply back from the monkeys and they say that because mod_proxy is not installed on their apache server, these rules wont work properly - could that be why this isnt working too?
  
  thanks for your help!
  
  
  
  Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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  gc Reply #17, 17 years, 10 months ago

  Well, see if this example is what you’re thinking of.
  
  http://geekcompendium.net/
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  opengeek Reply #18, 17 years, 10 months ago

  If you are using friendly alias paths, please see http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1942.msg22795.html#msg22795 for the solution...
  Jason Coward
  Chief Architect @ MODX
  http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek
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  demwunz Reply #19, 17 years, 10 months ago

  doh! I had it commented out! - thanks for the help guys
  Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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  myfriendscallmebill Reply #20, 17 years, 9 months ago

  I found that I had to comment out these two lines in the .htaccess file to make friendly URLs work:
  
  # php_flag zlib.output_compression On
  # php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5
  
  

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