Site images broke when using internal pretty urls

[crozi]

Running CMSMS .13 Canary
PHP version  4.3.11
MySQL version 4.0.25-standard

Images upload fine and display correctly in the image manager and on the root page (i.e. http://www.example.com/), but break as soon as you click a menu link and are sent to a new page (i.e. http://www.example.com/index.php/about).

After looking at the generated code it appears that the image source path is "uploads/images/image.jpg" so the server thinks the image is located in "index.php/about/uploads/images/image.jpg" which doesn't exist. I have been able to fix the problem by hard-coding the full url into the image source, but would like to not have to do that. Anyone know how I can fix this?

[Ted]

Toss a {metadata} tag in your template(s) in the section.  That'll add a base tag that will fix the problem.

[crozi]

Wow, thanks for the quick working solution! I thought I had put the {metadata} tag in my templates, but when I went back I had a tag in there instead, oops!

[scotch33]

Hi - I was experiencing the same problem.  Adding the {metadata} has only worked on one of my 3 templates - all the others are still not playing ball.

Also - I actually want to code the metadata to be in the template, nit the individual pages - so is there anyway to get around this other than ditching this latest version and goign back to one that I know can do the job?

Ta!  Scotch

[mahjong]

Also - I actually want to code the metadata to be in the template, nOt the individual pages

In the Admin console, Site Admin->Global Settings->Global Metadata

[trident]

I installed cmsms 0.13 and do not get the inside pages. the {metadata} tags are already there in all the templates. I am using IIS on Windows XP and my PHP is 4.4.

For example -

http://localhost/lions/index.php/content_types

gives the error - page cannot be found!

if i type the following  (without .php) into the browser -

http://localhost/lions/index.php?page=content_types

it works

what could be wrong here?

[Dr.CSS]

if you upgraded the pretty url stuff is turned off by default you will need to edit the config.php file yourself...

[Elijah Lofgren]

I installed cmsms 0.13 and do not get the inside pages. the {metadata} tags are already there in all the templates. I am using IIS on Windows XP and my PHP is 4.4.

For example -

http://localhost/lions/index.php/content_types

gives the error - page cannot be found!

if i type the following  (without .php) into the browser -

http://localhost/lions/index.php?page=content_types

it works

what could be wrong here?

The pretty URL scheme that was on by default doesn't work with IIS. This will be turned off by default in the next version of CMSMS.
Instructions for fix here:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg30261

[Elijah Lofgren]

Could you explain me a little better what pretty URLs consists of?

I am building URLs like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/cmsmadesimple/i ... ccessories

All my pages are being built based on the page alias, wich in this case is Apparel-and-accessories

Can I build better URLs?

Thanks

Andy

A pretty URL would look like:
http://www.example.com/cmsmadesimple/Ap ... cessories/

You can find out how to turn them on here:  http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... retty_URLs

Hope this helps,

Elijah

[Elijah Lofgren]

Should I just replace all the conent in the htaccess.txt file with this?:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ FOLDER/index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

and upload it into the root of my site or in the root of the folder where I installed CMSMS ?

I think you can use the above code and place it in the root of your site but make sure to change "FOLDER" to the name of your folder. Also you need to put it in a file named ".htaccess" (without a file prefix) not "htaccess.txt"

Or instead you could copy the first set of code on this page:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... retty_URLs
and put in in a .htaccess file in the folder where you install CMSMS

where should this go?:

url.rewrite-final = (
  "^/(admin)/(.*)$" => "/$1/$2",
  "^/([^.?]*)$" => "/index.php?page=$1"
)

You shouldn't need that unless your server is running lighthttpd instead of Apache (you are very likely to be using Apache instead).


Hope this helps,

Elijah

[Elijah Lofgren]

I made a .htaccess file without the .txt and uploaded it into my site root with this content:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ cmcmadesimple/index.php?page=$1 [QSA]


I also made this changes in the config.php file:

#------------
#URL Settings
#------------

$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;

$config['page_extension'] = '/';

$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;


then I inserted the {metadata} in all my templates between the {metadata}
and I am getting a 500 internal server error
What could be wrong?

In your .htaccess file try changing:
cmcmadesimple
to:
cmsmadesimple

Hope this helps,

Elijah

[Sean]

I have the opposite problem, images are showing on the front end but not in the back end.

[tonypb]

i had the same problems and a co-worker asked somebody here and they got a fix

in the global settings "Metadata" just add:

this fixed the problem and all images appeared again

[andrewvideo]

Thank you Tonypb.  That's so amazing, it works, so simple. All my Photos and flash are back. Thanks again.

[Lucaz]

Toss a {metadata} tag in your template(s) in the section.  That'll add a base tag that will fix the problem.

Nice thank you.

I use the section image tag/plugin:
{sectionimage lowercase=1 get_dimensions=1 levels=3 byname=1 image_path=img/producten extension="jpg"}
and had the same problem.

Using {metadata} solved the problem for me.