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Vijay Wilson
Vijay Wilson

Im using rich text editor in the back end to edit my description content . I want to paste some link in the editor like <a href="https://mysite/project/services">Go to Services</a>. Its good when I paste the entire url. But I dont want to specify my entire url, i just want to initiate my page like <a href="services">Go to Services</a> . If I do so the link in the front end view appears as full url including the slug that I want to redirect, say https://mysite/project/current_page/services. I know how to set the base url for the link inside the content using php section and twig markup in the front end page.

But Is there a way to get my base url within the rich text editor itself ?

Renatio
Renatio

Try using relative path:

<a href="/services">Go to Services</a>

or

<a href="/project/services">Go to Services</a>

If you preceed url with / than it will lead to {base_url}/{your_path_in_href}.

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AlanQ
AlanQ

Has anyone managed to get this to work?

My site is in a sub-directory: http://root/subDir.

So, a link that is added in RichText Editor like 

<a href="/services">Go to Services</a>

ends up pointing to http://root/services instead of http://root/subDir/services.

Setting RewriteBase in .htaccess causes a 500 error.

Adding 

<base href="...">

in the html 

<head>

section does nothing.

Where in OctoberCMS should the base_url be set so that relative links will work?

jan-vince
jan-vince

I think this will never works unless there is special notation for link creation (like [services]).

There is a space for a new plugin, that would be able to transform {{ 'services'|page }} inside rich text editor to regular URL - just like we do it with Twig.

If you just try to match development and production environment, you have probably only two options:

Virtual host

  • you have www.domain.com as production
  • you set up local environment (by hand or with MAMP/WAMP) to add virtual host www.domain.com
  • you add record to your hosts file (like: 127.0.0.1 www.domain.com)

With this you can point your browser to www.domain.com and still be on your own machine.

URL replace

  • dirty but fast solution -- you can export DB (or use pages text files) and in text editor find http://mysite/project string and replace with http://www.domain.com and import/move to your production
  • you must be EXTRA CAREFUL to be in sync with production data !
  • I don't like this solution and use it ONLY when necessary
AlanQ
AlanQ

@Janek

Virtual Host solution -- brilliant! Thank you.

jan-vince
jan-vince

You're welcome :)

I forgot to note that if you want to see production site, you have to comment added line in hosts file like this:

# 127.0.0.1   www.domain.com

Or you can use some GUI to do this for you (eg. MAMP PRO at Mac OS X).

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