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arnoldus
PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2012 5:38 pm 
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Hi

Just checking

Must one create a menu item in order to have a URL for a published Article.

I have Google ads and want to have a landing page on my Joomla website for which one requires a web address for the landing page. To get a web address in Joomla, you must have the Article displayed on the menu.

Is there any way one can get a web address of an Article without it being a menu item or is there a workaround or people having to login?

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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 6:32 pm 
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Yes, you can link to article. The easiest way is if you have SEF URLs turned on. Then you can copy the alias into the url;

eg http://mysite.com/alias-name
if your article is in a category, you might have to include that too; eg, mysite.com/category/article

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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 7:22 pm 
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Hi pxforti

Thanks for your e-mail.

It does not seem to be a case in my case.

The article has to appear on the menu in order for it to be referenced. I created an uncategorised article called FAQ with the alias being faq. SEF is turned and the article does not appear on the menu.

I typed: flossnet.co.za/faq.html

I want to reference an article using a URL without it having to appear in the menu.
I got a 404 error.

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There are two ways to do it;

1. Create a new menu called invisible and add the article to the menu. You can then use the alias to access it.

2. http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=co ... ticle&id=1 where id equals the article id number.

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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 8:13 pm 
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pxforti

Thanks a million.

Your first option worked like a bomb.

I created a menu and added a menu item called faq. I then typed flossnet.co.za/faq.html and the article appeared.

So in conclusion, it must be a menu item. However, you don't need to publish the menu and will thus be able to access the article as a URL.

Thanks once again.

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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:29 pm 
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It doesn't have to be a menu item if you use the url syntax I sent, but that's not very user friendly if you're sending the link as a landing page. Also, yes, for the sef url to work, the item has to be linked to a menu but the menu does not need to be published.

Glad it worked.

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