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Hi, I would like to ask someone to help me about my problem...am getting error 404 everytime I click on the link.

I am trying to implement style chooser in my website: http://jojacob.byethost13.com/

When I am on the Home page, all of the links in my style chooser module works but when I click on Professional or any menu item linked on an article, it gives me this error.

I noticed the difference on the link addresses:

Professional link: http://jojacob.byethost13.com/index.php ... &Itemid=61

One of the style chooser links:
http://jojacob.byethost13.com/index.php ... &Itemid=61

This means that (view=article&id=51) is missing.

Any help will be much appreciate. Thanks.

Hi , I have the exact problem ! If somebody found the solution , Thats will be so kind to give it to me too

Sincerely
Mahshid

Same problem here. I tried turning SEO URLs on or off and still experienced the problem. It appears this issue might be related to a previously existing bug from RC3 (see this article - http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Content_Management/Q_23121319.html Read in FireFox and scroll to the bottom of the page to see the answers without logging in). However, some kind of "patch" was applied to fix it that we already have in the "stable" 1.5 release.

If anyone knows the cause of this problem, please post here to help. My site is claiming article ID#45 is missing. It appears the client deleted it and it was set to display on the home page. Even after restoring it from the "article trash" and disabling it on the home page, I still get the error. I'm not sure what to do at this point.

I've found the same issue after upgrading to 1.5.3....Clicking on a category, or sometimes an article, would either redirect to the wrong article, or would result in a 404 error.

Turning off "Search Engine Friendly URLs" seems to have fixed my problem. Not really optimal, but for now, it's better than the live implementation not working correctly ;P

That does nothing to fix the problem for me. Mine were already set to No. I tried changing them back and forth, but it did nothing to correct this problem. On another forum I was told to go to the index.php and look for <jdoc:include type="component" /> and wrap it like this:

<?php if (JRequest::getVar('view') != 'frontpage') : ?>
<jdoc:include type="component" />
<?php endif; ?>

I tried that, and then tried to unpublish that article that was missing, and I still get the 404 error.

Hi. This is a total shot in the dark, but it can't hurt to try. Try editing the configuration.php file as follows: Mark

Thanks for the suggestion. It was worth a shot, but didnt work.

I just can't wrap my mind around the reason why something like this would be coded in as mandatory without an easy way of not using it, via the admin control panel.

Hi. It might be helpful for you to post all of your system details (for example, using the Forum Post Assistant). Recently there have been two posts where people were having problems and they were using PHP version 5.0.4, which is listed as a known problem in the Installation Manual. Maybe you have something like that? Mark

Hello

Any solution for this problem?

In my case, i try to use core SEF with suffix enabled (same problem with suffix set to OFF) option in Joomla 1.5.6 on Windows 2003 server, IIS6, PHP 5.2.5, ISAPI, MySQL 5.0.45. Strange is that some url's are working fine, some are not (get 404 - Article #0 not found or redirect to homepage). If i disable SEF, everything it's ok. I use Migrator component to migrate content, categories and users from 1.0.15 to 1.5.6

I also add $live_site ="http://localhost'; to configuration.php

Thank you

Hi. Don't know if this will help, but since you are using IIS, here are two links that might. Mark

http://docs.joomla.org/IIS6_and_SEF_URLs_using_Joomla_1.5x

http://docs.joomla.org/SEO_and_IIS_ISAPI

Unfortunately, doesn't work for me. I still get 404 page but not for all pages, some are ok, some not I try to install sh404 and it's work with this component, but this component doesn't have many plugins and some url doesn't look ok

I had the same problem but I figured out the problem. I discovered that the article was actually expired. I wasn' t used to setting start and end dates in the previous version of Joomla but apparently in Joomla 1.5 the start and end dates for the article default to the current day and time (which means that after the day is over, the article is no longer active and the 404 message appears). Check to see if the expiration date has already passed. You can type "Never" (case sensitive!) and the article should show up.

Does anyone know how to change the defaults for this from the Admin panel?

Hi. I believe that the default start date is the current time and the default end date is "Never". I've heard of problems if your system time is messed up (for example, set in the future or something). Under normal circumstances, these defaults should work reasonably well. Hope this helps. Mark

I developed the same problem suddenly. It was fine until I attempted to change the default home page. Since then I receive the 404 error and told that article #54 cannot be found. I deleted article 54 a long time before and cleaned out the trash. So it is looking for an article that no longer exists.

Hi Everyone,

I had the same problem, BUT!!!!

It only seems to happen on IE7 and not all! There seems to be some setting in IE7 causing the problem. I tested this out on several machine with the following browsers, Google Chrome, Firefox and IE7, and only two machine out of the 7 that I tested it on had this error.

Still no idea why at this stage, hopefully someone will!

So before you go messing with settings in your J! setup or server configs check multiple browsers on multiple machines!

I had the same problem what seemed to be causing it for me was that I had the Search Engine Friendly URLS setting turned on. Once I turned it off everything worked fine. Hope this Helps

My problem is that I'm not trying to call a specific article, only a view.

Also, I don't have SEF turned on. It's off.

Any ideas?

I have two 1.5.7 sites. I seem to be having the problem on one site but not the other. In my case, it's looking for article 1. It's fine with SEF disabled (my other site has SEF with no problems).

Originally what would happen is 'all' menus would link to article 1, even though the menu was pointing to other items. On a whim, I copied article 1 to article 20 and deleted article 1 and set article 20 to the new front page article, and while the front page works (as it did before), 'now' I start getting the message you folks get, only it says it can't find article 1 on all my other menus (even though my other menu links point to section blogs and all sorts of other content).

Woah, try this folks

In my case, I set up 8 menu links and pointed them all to one article as I was building the site. As I started getting my sections and other content together, I started to change the 'type' of my menu items and pointed them to new things. With SEF disabled, this works fine. When I turned it on, it seems there is a bug somewhere that wants to point the menu item 'back' to what it used to be when you originally created the menu item (at least in my case).

I removed the menu item completely and re-created it, and now it seems to be working.

I went to go do the other 6 items (delete them and re-create them) and it seems I don't have to. Very interesting.

See if that rings a bell with anyone ... did you have your menu item as one type at one point and then change the type of menu item it was without deleting it and re-creating it?

Folks,

I've had similar problems, I simply edit the article and blank out the 'finnish publishing' date in the article parameters box. Save the article again and everything works fine. If you then reopen the article for editing you will see it then says 'never' in the box.

Hope that's some help
Cheers

I found a solution to this in what may just be my case. The issue appeared for all articles under a particular section. I AM using Joomla core sef. The problem was that the parent item had no alias.

We had a menu like

Item 1
---Item 2
-----Item 3

Clicking on Item 3 gave the Article #0 not found because item 2 had no alias configured.

What I found was that I forgot to add my article as a link in article layout of the menu items. I was running the apple style accordian menu which you have to manually enter in the links, but forgot to add my menu link. I named my menu item the same as my article and chose article layout and browsed to my article and all was good with the world.

hope this helps.

I hope this helps some. I just had this same problem with it referring to a 404 looking for an article #.

What I quickly realized was that one of my menu items (in this case, the menu item I used for "home") was pointed to an article I just deleted. Since that menu loads on every page, it couldn't find the article for that link, so it resulted in the error described above.

The fix was easy. Go into Menu Manager and look through all your menus and see if you have any item types as "articles", open it up and check the "Parameters (Basic)". If you come across one where the field is blank next to "Select Article", hit the "select" button and just point to a new article that still is live on your site... Save and at least for me... Voila!

Q

hi every one,

im new to joomla and facing the same problem that "404 - Article # --- not found"


and i came to know that the Article # --- which is not found has the "creationDate" and "publishDate" are greater than the current date.

then i set "creationDate" and "publishDate" of this Article to some previous dates and it works fine

hope it helps.

Best Regards,


Muhammad Yasar Ikram

I also ran into the same problem, with a seemingly random error 404 - Article #46 missing error.

After doing some reading and quite a bit of panicking, I figured out that I had unpublished an active Frontpage only article. Something about that messed with the organization of the site.

I went into the Backend and republished the article, and everything came back to life.

I'm not sure why this is--but I hope it helps you!

You should also check to see if you have inadvertently changed the default menu item to something other than your frontpage item. This was the answer to my specific problem - I had a 404 error pointing to a deleted article as well. Seems like a strange expression of this problem, but when I realized the last time the site was working, I had been messing around with a sub-menu, I suppose I changed the default item absent mindedly.

I had a similar problem with receiving the "404 - Article #0 not found" error on some articles and pages that didn't exist.

I am using Artio JoomSEF.

I fixed the problem by changing the "Parse Joomla SEO links?" to NO within the Artio JoomSEF configuration.

I'm getting a 404 error after someone submits an article. As soon as I publish the article, the 404 error goes away.

Here are my variables:
PHP Built on: Linux box594.bluehost.com 2.6.28-10.7.intel.IGB.BHsmp #1 SMP Thu Aug 13 21:52:24 MDT 2009 x86_64
Database Version: 5.0.81-community-log
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.9
I've got a similar problem.

Here is my server info:
Web Server: Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8k DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.14 Stable [ Wojmamni Ama Naiki ] 30-July-2009 23:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091007 Firefox/3.5.4 GTB5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The sequence goes like this:
1. Someone submits an article (not yet approved and posted)
2. I log into my site
3. I'm automatically redirected to my "What's New" page.
4. I get the 404 error
5. I log into the back end and post the article, and then everything works fine

The problem has something to do with unpublished articles. When someone posts a new article, I get the 404 error until I publish the article.

I'm using Bluehost and have my website in a subdirectory. This is obviously a bug of some kind. Is there a way to fix it?

Hi folks,

let me give you a new version of the game.

I have 1.5.14 installed and everything works fine. Yesterday I tried to install QContacts in the top menu. I did

- installing QContacts
- configuring
- switching the menu entry from the standard form to the QContacts form

Although I configured a standard contact page, I got a listing page by clicking on the menu entry.

After trying to solve this behaviour I deinstalled QContacts. Now using some menu entries on the front page I got this error:

"404 Article #0 not found"

But: there is no article with ID 0.

I read a lot of forum entries, which ofter discussed problems in connection with SEF, but I use no SEF. I cleaned Joomla cache.

Instead of Firefox 2.0.0.20 I tried IE 7.0.5730.13: everthing works well!!!! In the meanwhile I got the error with every menu entry using Firefox.

I cleaned history, cache, cookies, etc. within Firefox. Same as before.

I deleted all the files (not the database) of the website, and reinstalled from the backup.

Same as before.

Today I tried Firefox 3.0.10 froom an other location. Everthing is well, while with Firefox 2.0.0.20 and IE 7.0.5730.13 at the first location everything is the same as before.

Regards from Germany and many thanks in advance for any idea.

I have joomla 1.5.14 same you.
It Very good.