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Forgive me if I'm showing my ignorance here, but something "seems" to be malfunctioning.  I could just as easily be doing something wrong, but I can't say.  I'm testing Joomla 1.5 and here's my setup.

I have an article (Example News Item 3) that's in a custom section I created called News.  The News section has an alias called "news".  In the top menu of the site, I created an internal link called "News" that also has an alias of "news".  I've tried this with each one having a different alias with the exact same results, so I don't think that's quite the problem.

If you visit the news page, it has Example News Item 3 listed with a Read More link.  But if you click the Read More link, you immediately get a 404.  The article is published and only in the section, not on the front page.  If you want to see what I'm talking about first hand, check out http://www.flawlesslogic.net/news and click the link for Example News Item 3.

Any ideas what could be causing the problem?

Moving to Q&T forum.

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Thanks, Jinx.  Can anyone confirm this kind of behavior?  Where 404's result from visiting a section page in blog layout?

I found the problem... and it looks like a bug, but it (again) may not be.  I had enabled SEF URL's in the global site config.  At first I thought it was that I had also enabled mod_rewrite, but disabling that had no effect.  When I disabled SEF URL's in the global site config, it started working.

That said, is this likely a bug with SEF URL's OR is it more likely that I goofed up with the config I mentioned above?

Have not looked into it yet.

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I looked into this a bit further.  It seems to be both related to SEF URL's and to the sample news data installed with Joomla 1.5.  I haven't been able to dupe this outside the sample data.

*update*

In addition to the items below, it seems that all articles are being assigned to the one SEF url, eg -

- everything is added to siteurl.com/home/xx-articleslug

I've tried the following -

- Disable legacy support
- re-nominate default page to something else
- unpublish default page + set other default
- removing frontpage option for articles.

All yields the same result.

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Howdy,

I can confirm similar behaviour but not with the demo data, purged it (via admin interface) in favour of some basic draft content / structure.

Following items are likely relevant -

- Have the 09/05 nightly (7381)
- have a top menu that consists of home, news, articles etc.
- home is default menu, frontpage blog layout
- have article header links enabled
- have SEF URL's and mod_rewrite enabled

The following behaviour was observed:

- Clicking a link from the front page directed to siteurl.com/home/52-articlename
- Clicking a link from the section menu 404's on siteurl.com/news/52-articlename
- Same behaviour from articles from other menu areas, including read more links.

Misc:

- With SEF and mod_rewrite turned off everything is fine.
- With SEF enabled and mod_rewrite turned off, everything 404's.
- With the computer switched off I can't see the issue and feel indifferent about it.

Re,

bt.

I'm having the same issue. All of my conditions as the same as btomo with the exception that I am using the 1.5 Beta 2 release, not a nightly build. Specifically, I have SEF URL's and mod_rewrite enabled.

I would like to add the following though:

Clicking an article title or readmore link will 404 (link points to siteurl.com/news/54-articlename)

If I take out the -articlename part and manually browse to siteurl.com/news/54 , then it is OK.

I have just found that this happens when the article title contains a period "."

Remove the period from the article and it is OK

I got the same problem (and there is no dot in the title!)

read more -> error 404

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1) I had identified the issues with SEF URLs some time ago. There is a unexpected interaction between Menu Items and between Menu Items and Modules:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg815257

2) Also, errors when clicking read more... were being discussed here:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,177473.0.html

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This one is completely obsolete, since the code has changed a lot since then. Therefor: Closing time!

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