How to add custom URL in secondary Context?

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Hi all,

I’m trying to assign a separate domain to a secondary context. Using dummy details for illustration, my context settings are:

base_url = /newsite/
http_host = newsite.com
site_start = 12345
site_url = https://www.newsite.com/newsite/

To remove /newsite/ from the visible URL, I added the following to .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^newsite/(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L,QSD]

This gives me clean URLs, but the homepage then resolves to:

https://www.newsite.com/index/?cultureKey=newsite&q=index/

which makes me think MODX is falling back to its internal routing because the context still expects base_url = /newsite/.

If I remove /newsite/ from base_url and site_url entirely, the request falls back to the default web context and homepage.

Has anyone successfully configured a secondary context to run from its own domain without requiring the context prefix in the URL? Is there a recommended way to handle domain-based context routing in this scenario?

Any pointers would be much appreciated. (Am using MODx 2.8.6)

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MODX has no “internal routing”. By default it always just loads the “web” context.

If you have two different domains for your contexts, you can use a routing extra that can handle domains/subdomains. For example SmartRouting should work:

Or you could also write a simple custom routing plugin yourself.

When the context is determined by the domains, there is no need to use a base_url that differs from the default (/).

There is also no need to change anything in the .htaccess file (like extracting the “cultureKey” from the request).

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What do you mean by “run from its own domain”? What are the exact URLs you want for the main and secondary domains?