Joomla menu link puzzler?
I am helping out with a Joomla site.
I am taking over after a non-technical person attempted to set some things up.
I am inheriting a main_menu with some items already in.
The items show the link index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2 for example, but the menu tab and sidebar text links are about-us.html which does not exist and I don't see it anywhere in the menu editing interface. When I paste in the first URL, it works properly.
Do I need to rebuild the menus? Or do I need to create a new menu?
The menu items show the correct Link: URL but the page view shows the html page links...
I was able to move one item as the child of one of the top menu items, so I know I am editing the correct menu.
decibel.places posted this at 22:14 — 9th November 2008.
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ok, figured it out -
I had enabled SEF (search-engine friendly URLs - akin to Drupal's clean urls) and the extension (adds a meaningless .html to the url) AND Apache mod_rewrite which was rewriting my URLs as the alias + .html
I disabled mod_rewrite and the .html extension (the menu links worked with it enabled, but who needs to pretend it's an html site?). I kept SEF enabled and it's working fine, with a url like
index.php/about-usWhy can't Joomla be more like Drupal? Oh yeah, because it isn't
Zaccaria posted this at 16:44 — 24th November 2008.
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I tried using Joomla and couldn't even get passed the tutorial... So, I just went back to creating my own DBs and and creating/editing my own web pages.
Some content managers are somewhat easy to learn, while others are a pain in the @$$ and a waste of time... Joomla was a nightmare!
I turely hope you have better luck with it than I have.
decibel.places posted this at 02:23 — 25th November 2008.
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[grammar police]
Joomla is one of the more popular CMS, many publishers prefer its admin to that of Drupal, which is more diffuse but also more powerful.
If you are building every project from the ground up, you are probably repeating a lot of work each time.
Another advantage of using a CMS like Joomla or Drupal (or perhaps WordPress) is the wealth of plug-ins developed to provide specific functions.
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