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Content block isn't inserting pretty urls

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Hopefully someone else has come across this and can point me in the right direction.

When using the content block editor to insert a link to a page, the editor doesn't insert the "Pretty URLs" to the page, but instead uses the index.php?cID= form. I have Pretty URLs enabled and they're indeed working. I've found a few references to URL_REWRITING_ALL on a few other forum posts, but after defining as true in site.php, the content block editor won't load (spinner pops up, and ajax dialog never loads), and I haven't found any references to what URL_REWRITING_ALL actually enables. :-)

Any suggestions would be helpful. This is on Concrete5 5.4.2.1, running on nginx.

Thanks in advance for any help!

-Brian
 
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mesuva
I'm not sure if this helps, but note that the content block editor (tinyMCE) will always insert a path with the form index.php?cID=. When you look at the HTML in the editor, that is what you will always see (as the page id is constant, where as the pretty page path can be changed).

I believe concrete5 changes those links to the pretty urls on display of the page (it actually converts them to a particular format on save and then back again).
It will only convert links with the full url of the site (http://yourdomain.com/index.php?cID=)... and not just /index.php?cID=

I think this is dependant on concrete5 being able to recognise the BASE_URL and DIR_REL values (the site url and directory) in the links. I'm assuming these are set in your site.php file. If not, I'd put them in.

With URL_REWRITING_ALL, this is to do with the paths to special pages like the dashboard pages. When false (or left out of site.php), the dashboard pages have /index.php/ in their paths. When set to true, it omits that. I think you can ignore this setting in terms of your problem.