Upgraded parent menu links broken on splash page

[wiggam]

Hi All,

I have upgraded from 2.5 to 3.4.5 but the menu links are broken.
The site has a splash (plain html5/php) home page with hard coded links to the old menus.

How would I find out what the new parent menu item links are to I can ammend splash page links to point to new menu?

Thanks for any help.

W

[leolam]

Hello,
How did you do your upgrade? Did you use external extensions since an upgrade (mini-migration) from Joomla 25 to Joomla345 does not changes menu links?

Leo

[wiggam]

Thanks for reply.
I did a mini-migration from within J! upgrade screen - no third party extensions.
I was surprised when links hard coded into splash page were then broken.

[leolam]

You can post your link on the forums.

Please answer on the forums so others can learn from this as well?

(As I mentioned in my private message to your request in PMB If you want my 1:1 support you have to buy tickets or support through the GWS business website as mentioned in my signature since the forum is used also as a training platform for other users so they can learn from issues arising with other J-users....)

You should not have used j-Upgrade or anything else as explained by the documentation we created for the J-users in https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_2.5_to_3 ... _Migration or in my (extract from the first one http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=710&t=793171). One should try to follow instructions as clearly outlined I believe? What these extensions do ( if you use wrong settings or configure them wrong) is changing the Joomla menu-"id's' so you get 404's

So if your mini-migration works well you can now change the hardcoded menu links in your splash page or (if not) redo the Joomla 'mini' migration properly as per directions (from a backup) . If your Joomla site further works ok I would suggest you enable SEO in global config and change the hardcoded links in your splash-page

Leo

[wiggam]

Just to clarify, J! upgrade intends standard Joomla! 2.5.8 upgrade procedure as documented. Mini migration went well, administrator backend works fine.

Splash page is visible, but I'm asking specifically how to obtain the new links for each parent in menu so I can therefore hard code the HTML splash page links.
The links are broken so they must have changed, but I don't know how to get the new links.

Anyone's help or advice welcome - this may be an issue others have come across or may come across.

[leolam]

I know jUpgrade very well. I refer (for others) back to the documentation (which was created by the Joomla Upgrade and Migration Working Group of which I am a Member).

You have the following error "500 - JHtml icon not found" and your index.php is not loaded because of this error. This is most likely caused by the fact that your template is not Joomla 3.x compliant/compatible.

You can add the following code to your template file (such as the default.php file under the templates/[your-template]/html/com_content/article folder):

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JHtml::addIncludePath(JPATH_COMPONENT . '/helpers');

Leo

[wiggam]

Thank you very much for the advice.

I upgraded Rockettheme template to latest and links were restored.

Very much appreciated.

[leolam]

You are welcome. Glad to be of assistance. Can you please update your very first post with the green resolved icon?

Leo