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Joomla Menu SEF Problem: Incorrect URLs Create Broken Links

September 27, 2012 by Pat Fortino

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.
    Page Display Options for Joomla Menu Items
  • Similarly, if you change the Show Title setting in Article Options in a Joomla article, you can trigger the   menu SEF URL problem.
    Article Options for Joomla

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  1. cesar says

    November 4, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    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?

    • Renem says

      November 6, 2012 at 2:30 pm

      Did you try the Rebuild button in menu managment?

  2. Renem says

    November 5, 2012 at 3:35 am

    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.

  3. Gregory says

    November 21, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Any idea how to rebuild content url’s ? I mean the article urls …

    • Pat Fortino says

      November 22, 2012 at 3:18 pm

      Not sure what you mean about rebuild content urls?

  4. Gregory says

    November 22, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    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

  5. Enes says

    January 19, 2013 at 3:12 am

    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…

  6. Fabio says

    January 25, 2013 at 4:38 am

    Tanks a lot

  7. james at uk deals says

    January 28, 2013 at 8:42 am

    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

    • Pat Fortino says

      January 29, 2013 at 7:31 am

      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.

  8. Jeff says

    February 20, 2013 at 6:24 am

    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.

    • Pat Fortino says

      February 20, 2013 at 6:38 am

      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.

      • Jeff says

        February 20, 2013 at 6:43 am

        So the search continues on… if I find a solution I’ll come back and post it. Thanx Pat.

  9. Emilio says

    March 7, 2013 at 6:46 am

    Thanks Pat!

  10. Horst says

    August 19, 2013 at 1:53 pm

    Thank you very much, we searched about hours and its so easy.

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