Deprecated

This extra is no longer maintained. In case you need to do custom context routing we do recommend looking at modxcms/revolution#16045.

XRouting

XRouting is a simple plugin that handles requests for different contexts. It automatically switches the context based on a (sub)domain AND/OR subfolder.

It's like the Gateway plugin from the docs, except you don't have to manually edit the plugin: it takes the http_host and base_url settings you have already configured in your context and routes based on that. It caches the http_host/base_url-to-context relation so it doesn't perform excessive database lookups.

You can also use http_host_aliases to route multiple domains to one context.

Instructions

All you need to do is to install this plugin and make sure your contexts have http_host, base_url, site_url and site_start context settings set.

/!\ Please make sure to add your http_host and site_url without www. if the xrouting.include_www setting is enabled (default!)

System Settings

You can set the following system settings:

• xrouting.include_www - automatically include www subdomain (default: yes)
• xrouting.show_no_match_error - set to true to show the error page if no matching context has been found (false will show the default context instead)
• xrouting.default_context - define the default context if no matching context has been found and xrouting.show_no_match_error is false
• xrouting.allow_debug_info - activate this setting and add &xrouting-debug=1 to your URL and you will get a handy debug output if your routing isn't working as expected

Troubleshooting

If your context routing isn't working as expected you can active the xrouting.allow_debug_info system setting and add &xrouting-debug=1 to your URL to get a handy debug output. If you can't find any issue in your debug output feel free to open an issue and paste your debug output into the issue.