Hello there,
first please excuse my bad english! --> i try my very best to explane and understand!

Our JoomSEF ist configured to build Urls by section and category. This works fine, if a link to "section/category/article.html" is present in a menu!
But when theres NO Menu-Link, and i try to go to "section/category/article.html" the system throws a 404!

For example:
i´ve linked to "section/category/article.html" in a module (theres no link to the content in menu) --> after klicking this link i have the correct url in the address-bar like "www.example.com/section/category/article.html", but site throws a 404!
But if i link this article to a menu and klick on it, everything is ok! --> then i have the correct content shown and the correct address in the address-bar!

Question:
Is it impossible to reach content, if its not linked in a Joomla-Menu?


Joomla-Version: 1.5.20 Stable
Artio-JoomSEF: 3.7.4
php is running as cgi (5.2.4)

Thank you very much for your help!

amwolf

Hello,

It is not impossible, but there are usually problems with it.

In your module, have you typed the link as SEF by hand, or have you used the Joomla "index.php?option=com_content&...." URL?
You should use the Joomla one in your link and let JoomSEF to automatically convert it to SEF for you, otherwise JoomSEF won't have the SEF URL in its database and it won't work.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Hi David,
we pasted the SEF-ones!

It´s a system that will carry a very big amount of data, so it`s not practicable to "translate" every Item to the Joomla-Type.

We solved the problem (for the moment), by using the Xmap-Sitemap Component and klicking the sitemap-Link of a hidden Menu, that contains all the article-item Links of the system, after every Change.
But i think of writing a hack- or maybe a fully compatible sef-extension that can verify -and store- a missing SEF-Link by "looking" into the database and , after that, pasting it into the SEF-Cache.

What ever; i thank you for your Time! :-)

Best regards,

-amwolf