I have JoomSEF 3.6.5 on my site (had problem with 3.6.3 also). On my template, at the bottom, I hard coded a url to our privacy policy and when its clicked on, it gives a 404 error.

Now if I take that same page and make a menu item and click on it, the page is viewable. After that has been done, I can delete the menu and still reach the page via the hard coded link at the bottom. But if I purge the url's because I updated something, I lose it.

Why will it not "accept" hard coded link on the site?

If I can't make it hard coded, ie: which is typed directly into the html in the template, then what can I do to add it as part of the html on the template and still have JoomSEF handle it?

The site in question is at www.southernrescue.org

I am working on a website for our non-profit and need to get his issue resolved rather quickly. Just want to know how to hard-code links into a template and know that they will be included in the JoomSEF without having to add them manually.

I have it working right now, because I created a manually added link, but I want to know how to make it be accepted without having to manually add it. Thanks

Hi,

The correct approach is not to use the SEF link like

but to use the non-SEF URL and use the PHP to convert it to the SEF link correctly:


Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team