In Joomla 1.7 and 2.5, the menu system can get corrupted when you change display settings for menu links or articles. When this happens, some SEF links become incorrect and you will get 404 Not Found errors if you click the link. Luckily, the fix is pretty easy…if you know what to do.
The Joomla menu SEF problem will appear as incorrect URLs which generate 404 errors. For example, a URL that should read http://mysite.com/products/widget1 will read http://mysite.com/feeds/products/widget1 or http://mysite.com/products/widget1/category
Note: Bold text indicates the error.
The URLs above are examples; you might see several other variations of the problem, but the end result is the same. Broken Links. This problem also manifests itself in Menu item ordering. If you find you cannot change the order of menu items by clicking the up or down arrows or changing the order numbers, the procedure for fixing the problem is the same.
As far as I can tell, this problem occurs when you change display settings for a menu link or an article.
- For example, if you change the Page Display Options for a menu link to No for Show Page Heading, you can trigger the menu SEF URL problem.
- Similarly, if you change the Show Title setting in Article Options in a Joomla article, you can trigger the menu SEF URL problem.
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Hello,
I’m having a similar problem with this.
except the broken thing is the reference header files.
example.. the first 16 menu links are fine, just the 17th (regardless if i delete it and recreate it or make it diferently)
the header for example, uses incorrectly the SEF address as source to obtain the js, css and other source files, instead of the default path..
example.. the incorrect link SEF is on /index.php/registrationthingie
the damaged link output will have headers trying to get
the source files from /index.php/registrationthingie/modules and so on.
instead of going back to /
any idea what could solve this?
Did you try the Rebuild button in menu managment?
Confirmed. It’s was driving me crazy, no up an down errors on the menu items. After rebuild evertythings seems to be oke.
Tnakxs for sharing.
Any idea how to rebuild content url’s ? I mean the article urls …
Not sure what you mean about rebuild content urls?
Hi Pat,
I found the solution (I think). I was asking about how to rewrite urls for all content of a joomla site: http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/rebuild-your-article-aliases
I have same issue and tried to Rebuild all menu items but no way. All menus works fine with SEF, except some of them gives Not Found error. I don’t know how to solve that.
Thanks…
Tanks a lot
hi , menu is working fine but when am going to create xml sitemap for site it show broken links for all menu, I dont understand why and how come … am doing it from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com
I would turn off the modification, regenerate the xml file and see if there are still broken links. I don’t see any reason why the link would be broken.
Whenever I create or edit a CATEGORY BLOG I get the broken URLs like you mention. But rebuilding and purging cache after every interaction with these menu items is a real nuisance. Have you stumbled on any longer term fix? Any ideas why it is so specific?
Also… thank god I finally found someone directly addressing this issue. It’s taken me a week to find this.
I have not found any long term solution. For me, rebuilding the menu fixed the problem. Make sure you have the latest version of Joomla.
So the search continues on… if I find a solution I’ll come back and post it. Thanx Pat.
Thanks Pat!
Thank you very much, we searched about hours and its so easy.
After activating SEF and Rewrite most of my articles worked but not all of them.
I tried the tips above but nothing worked.
Then I started to compare those that worked with those that didn’t option by option and parameter by parameter. I found that the language setting on the menu item made a difference.
After some testing with the language setting to narrow that problem cause it was gone.
I couldn’t replicate the problem anymore. Maybe this helps someone with a similar problem.