SEF links not working when menu items added in JCE Topic is solved

[jeffhoneyager]

Any ideas?

SEF & htacces.txt >> .htaccess all set correctly

Any menu other than the main menu displays a url like:

/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29:hempstead-tx-pool-installation-custom-decks&catid=11:cities-served&Itemid=343

Obviously not very nice.

What else should I look for ?

[toivo]

SEF & htacces.txt >> .htaccess all set correctly

Just a thought, is your web server Apache or LiteSpeed, both of which support .htaccess?

Go to Articles - Options and make sure that the URL Routing option is 'Modern' and that 'Remove IDs from URLs' has been selected.

[jeffhoneyager]

Thank you for responding.

It supports .htaccess
Both Article options were selected as you suggested.

Weird - if I put a link from the main menu - all works well. On other menus placed in modules, the URL is not SEF.

All my other sites, other menus have SEF.

So bizarre

[toivo]

Are there any third party plugins that could be the root cause?

Please post the results from the Forum Post Assistant (FPA) by following the instructions at https://forumpostassistant.github.io/docs/ so that our volunteer experts can review the configuration.

[jeffhoneyager]

Again, thank you. You got me in debug mode.

Here is the issue:

1) Created a long menu of single article links
2) Displayed this menu on the "Right" module position

SEF works for those menu items

Problem: I wanted to display this menu in a mega menu, but I could not format this list into a 3 column table. The list is too long for a drop down.

So: Created a custom module with 3 columns and entered the names of the menu items in the entries of the 3 columns.

3) Added a link from the 3 col. module as a menu item. In the editor (JCE), the link tool selects the menu item and replaces it with the NON-SEF URL

4) So the 3 column module display in the mega menu does what it was told to do - use the NON-SEF URL.

Everything is working as it should.

I have to manually enter the SEF URL for each item in the 3 column module.

Thanks again for your repeated replies. You helped make me work through and find the exact cause and solution.

[toivo]

Cheers.

In the editor (JCE), the link tool selects the menu item and replaces it with the NON-SEF URL

That is how JCE inserts the links, if you use the Browse function and locate the menu item from the list of menus. When the page is rendered, Joomla converts the non-SEF links to SEF links.

Ref. Selecting "menu link" doesn't give me a sef url, only non sef, why?

I have to manually enter the SEF URL for each item in the 3 column module.

No need to do that if the selected menu links are relative. If the link in the custom module is an absolute link, starting with http or https://, the link remains in the original non-SEF format and is not converted when the page is rendered. Therefore, always use relative links.

[jeffhoneyager]

In JCE Profile Manager - Changed the URL to relative, opened and then saved the module.

All is well. All links are now SEF!

Truly "Tovio" is a Joomla Master.

Thank you sooo much.