dx Fontawesome Editors-ext button doesn't work on front-end

Question

There's a component called dx FontAwesome button that is used for inserting Font Awesome elements into articles via the editors-ext button.

On the back-end it's working fine but not on the front-end. The button appears, but in the modal window it gives an error message: 404 Component not found.

• /administrator/components/com_dxfontawesome folder was created with all the necessary files

• /component/com_dxfontawesome folder was created but it's empty

• /plugins/editors-ext/dxfabutton folder contains dxfabutton.php and dxfabutton.xml files

I tried the following but couldn't resolve the issue.

1. Following to the core com_media I put a new dxfontawesome.php file into /component/com_dxfontawesome folder and add the following code:

   require_once JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR.'/dxfontawesome.php'; 
   

   Then I got a new error message: 0 Invalid controller: name='', format=''

2. I modified the dxfabutton.php at line #43:

   $app = JFactory::getApplication();
   if( $app->isAdmin() ) $link ="";
   else $link = "administrator/";
   $link .= 'index.php?option=com_dxfontawesome&view=dxfontawesome&layout=fa_selector&tmpl=component&editor='. $name;
   

After that it partially works but after clicking the font selector button the system asks to login into the back-end...

If I log into the back-end and then go back to the front end, the font awesome selector works, but it is not a real solution for our users with publisher permission.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

/component/com_dxfontawesome folder was created but it's empty

Taking a look at the install archive of that component, that folder shouldn't be empty. Try to reinstall it.

If that doesn't help copy the files from the install archive from /packages/com_dxfontawesome.zip/site/ to /component/com_dxfontawesome/