Unwanted redirect for subpages

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Using Modx 2.8.1, I am running a website on this url as root element / homepage: mypage.com/myhomepage
I was asked to add further subpages which should be accessible like this: mypage.com/myhomepage/subpage1, mypage.com/myhomepage/subpage2 and so on.

Ever since I create these subpages and prepared everything for friendly urls, once I open these subpages, I will be redirected to mypage.com for some strange reason.

  • the status of the subpages is “published”

  • I cant access the page neither by directly typing the url to the browser manually nor by clicking the “preview” button in modx

  • modx error log does not contain any error

  • all affected subpages contain the neccessary meta tag:
    <base href="[[!++site_url]]" />

  • I cleared the cache several times

  • as for modx settings, I set “friendly_urls” and “use_alias_path” to yes

  • this is everything my .htaccess file in root contains:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule "^\.well-known/" - [L]
RewriteRule "/\.|^\.(?!well-known/)" - [F]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

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

Still, I can’t open my newly created subpages and am always being redirected to page root "mypage.com". What am I missing? Any other hints?

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I don’t quite understand.

Is MODX installed in a subfolder with the name “myhomepage”?
Then you have to change the RewriteBase in the .htaccess:

RewriteBase /myhomepage/

If (on the other hand) “myhomepage” is the alias of a resource in MODX, then maybe try setting the system setting use_alias_path to Yes.

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I forgot to mention that “use_alias_path” was already set to yes (updated my question).

Apart from that, you are right, assuming that modx is installed in a folder called “myhomepage”. I updated the .htaccess file accordingly (RewriteBase /myhomepage/) but still get the same error.

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  • In the database table modx_site_content check the column uri to see if the content is correct.
  • Try if it works when you call the page mypage.com/myhomepage/index.php?q=subpage1.html, where you add the value from the uri column as the request parameter q. If that works, then the problem is the .htaccess file.
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The solution with

RewriteBase /myhomepage/

assumes that the .htaccess file is located in the myhomepage subfolder.

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Yes, it is.
I got it working now, meaning, I can access the subpage by manually typing the url to the browser (mypage.com/myhomepage/subpage1) but still not by using the preview button in Modx!? Good enough for now, yet, it would be interesting to know whats still crashing the preview button.

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What is the difference in the URL that works (mypage.com/myhomepage/subpage1) and the URL that the “View” button generates?

In the file core/config.inc.php, are the paths set correctly? (E.g. the variable $modx_base_url is set to /myhomepage/ etc.)

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Yes, it is set correctly.

Unfortunately, I can’t tell. When clicking the view button, the browser opens the page with the correct url, but does not show any content, remains in that loading state for about 2 seconds and then performs the redirect. I tried canceling the loading process and viewing the page content via the inspector but the page is blank.

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Update: I think, in the end, there was something wrong with my resources, too. I deleted the old resources of the subpages, recreated them, reassigned the templates and now even the view button seems to work. I guess, there was something corrupt along the way after all the changes of the settings.

Anyhow, thanks very much for your support, harry. Life saver award hereby officially handed over =)
Cheers.

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