Kirby Rewrite Base not woking on localhost

Kirby 2
1

Hi there.

I’ve just inherited a Kirby site from a new client to do some updates. Quite excited to be working on Kirby for the first time!

I downloaded a copy and moved it to a folder in my MAMP installation on localhost. Let’s call the folder ‘localhost:8888/xyz’

I modded the .htaccess file so that we have:

RewriteBase /xyz

And added this to site/config/config.php:

// URL Config
c::set(‘url’, ‘http://localhost:8888/xyz’);

All as per the docs and posts I find on this forum. Despite this relative URLs are still pointing at the localhost root.

For example the main menu code: should give access to the about page at localhost:8888/xyz/about but the link ( href="/about" ) links to localhost:8888/about rather than localhost:8888/xyz/about

Kirby version: 2.3.0
PHP running: 7.3.9

Does anyone have any ideas?

Many thanks in advance.

2

Are the relative URLs hardcoded?

On a side note: KIrby 2.3.0 is outdated and should be updated to the latest version 2.5.15.

Kirby should usually recognize if it’s in a subfolder without you have to set the RewriteBase

3

Hi there and thanks.

It looks like the main menu links have been hardcoded so Ill star there. I’ll also run that update and see where we land.

Thanks again.