Google Custom Search 404 not found

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Hello all,
I’m trying to integrate GCS to my modx site. the layout is two page results, where search box is on any page and the results are on /searchresults.html
the issue is that Google adds ‘q’ to the query and modx shows 404 not found. I read very old results of same issue where the answer was to modify the search box result to have upper case Q instead of lower case.

however I think since then Google has changed the way the search is done and now I can’t seem to find where I can change the Q parameters.

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MODX uses the q parameter for friendly URLs. If you can’t change it for GCS (I’m not familiar with how that works), you can change MODX.

In the system settings, change request_param_alias to something different. Perhaps modxq or fq or something else you wont be using.

Next, in your .htaccess file, change:

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

To:

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

Basically, replacing q / modxq with whatever you changed the request_param_alias setting to.

If you use nginx, make the same change but then in your server configuration/location block.

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Worked a charm. Thank you very much Mark!

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