Menu items and urls extending

[kennm]

In old Joomla 3 we used custom component which was used just to display custom content depending on what url was. We noticed that there was possibility to add anything after basic url of the menu item's url after it base url, for instance if menu item was "category", then we were able to display the same page with these urls:

/category
/category/whatever
/category/whatever/a
/category/whatever/a/b
/category/whatever/a/b/c/d/e/f/g
...

No matter how many "/" chars we added in the url, always was called the same menu item and displayed the same page.

In Joomla 4 it seems to not work, i.e. /category and /category/something don't lead to the same page - in the latter case we get 404 error.

How can we achieve the same effect in Joomla 4 for these urls related to the same menu item? I.e. to not get 404 error with /category/..... url but leading to the same menu item's page as with just /category url?

[tigaz]

Hi kennm

It has to do with the routing in Joomla. Could you please check if the .htaccess file has been enabled on your site in Joomla 4 (if it was that in Joomla 3)? Please ensure your settings for "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use URL Rewriting" hasn't changed either after changing to Joomla 4. When that's said the routing has been changed in J4.

You might need to rewrite the code of the router in the custom component to make it work as expected.

[kennm]

Hi kennm

It has to do with the routing in Joomla. Could you please check if the .htaccess file has been enabled on your site in Joomla 4 (if it was that in Joomla 3)? Please ensure your settings for "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use URL Rewriting" hasn't changed either after changing to Joomla 4. When that's said the routing has been changed in J4.

You might need to rewrite the code of the router in the custom component to make it work as expected.

Thank you for the reply.

We have "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use URL Rewriting" exactly the same as in J3. The .htaccess is exactly the same as in J3, and it works fine, however still treating of URLs by J4 seems different than in J3.