Questions tagged [url]
The uniform resource locator, abbreviated as URL is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.
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Update SEF URL to change what is output
Good day,
I have inherited a very old Joomla site - and the are wanting URL updates for a custom module that was developed for them.
The URL's currently contain car-rental-branch - which they want ...
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Why is Joomla redirecting from example.com to example.com/example.com?
I was advised to post here from Stack Overflow
We need help. We're running an ad campaign and realized that a lot of paid traffic was landing on a 404 not found page.
The issue is caused by auto-...
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Is there a way to make all pages in a menu have a slug in the URL?
I have a page for "Froggy Park" on my Joomla site, and right now it is at www.site.com/forkids/froggypark but I want the park to be at www.site.com/parks/forkids/froggypark
The page is ...
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How can I give pages URLs with two layers of slashes in them?
I have a page at www.website.com/page51 with 0 layers of slash items in the URL (only the website and the page alias) and I want to make it have two layers of slash items, as in www.website.com/layer1/...
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how to add a slash item before alias of a page
Right now, https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/shopping is a page on my site
I want to make that page https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/tourism/shopping but I do not know how to add that to the URL. I tried ...
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EasyBlog Component missing image to URL to Facebook
I have problem with sharing URL to Facebook is missing image with Easyblog.
I have upload cover image and there are pictures in article also.
I check with Sharing Debugger and I can see the image.
og:...
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The contents appear under the homepage of my site in google search
The contents appear under the homepage of my site in google search.
After collecting the menu items under a new general menu, the news content appear at the bottom of my site's homepage in google ...
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Remove Itemid from URL generated from manual links in articles
I have been looking for hours but I have been unable to find an answer for my case.
I have an Article which is used for the home menu. For some reason the Read More option is not working but that is ...
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Joomla Route / Url Problem
I work on an own component and added several views, here're some exemplary names:
TypeItems
TypeItem
TypeBundles
TypeBundle
There're two different types with Items and Bundles.
I've setup the menues,...
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Joomla router file with fragment(# parameter in URL) in a custom component
How can I get & set the fragment(# parameter in URL) in the URL with the Joomla's existing build & parse method in the router file of the custom component?
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Get SEF path of an article from external script using articleID
I am practically new to Joomla and I need to get the SEF path of an article from an external php script. I feel like I'm close, but something is not working for me. The preliminary code I have as an ...
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A slash is being automatically added after the hashtag in urls
I just wanted to implement a scroll to an element for two anchor tags. The problem is that Joomla is adding a forward slash between the hash mark and the named anchor.
When I have something like <a ...
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How to reference a file locally within my class
I'm trying to use file_get_contents to reference a .json file in my module.
My directory structure is as follows
my custom field which is trying to reference the json file
/models/fields....
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Ajax Request returning the whole page not a specifc value
I am trying to make an AJAX Request to my function in my controller and it works, however, it returns me the whole page which i don't want. I have tried encoding it with json but no success i also ...
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Why are Joomla url query strings commonly delimited with "&" instead of "&"?
I often see Joomla url querystrings with & delimiters between key-value pairs instead of the standard &.
In a previous question, How to make my Editor plugin (type: editors-xtd) survive ...
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How to remove category from URL?
I have a little problem - I want to remove categories and submenus from URL in Joomla 3.9.3. Of course, I did basic things like removing ID from URLs, but removing category is like a milestone for me. ...
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Breadcrumbs Incorrect URL Path
Using Joomla 3.9.12 and SP Portfolio v1.7
I have a menu item called Locations, this is a menu item type SP Simple Portfolio » Items
Whenever I visit example.com/locations I can see all my portfolio ...
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How to add userinfo to link in Joomla Page
We have a Joomla site (latest version) with a page that links to another system with a fixed username/pw, so like https://www.othersystem.com/login.php?un=[fixed_un]&pw=[fixed_pw].
Now we need ...
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How to enter relative (to current page) URL as a menu item?
I would like to be able to enter relative URLs (relative to the current page URL). I've tried the menu type URL (nested within System Links) but when I enter e.g. first it becomes /first and when I ...
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Joomla SEF url in CLI script
I am new to Joomla, I am writing a script under folder cli. I am calling helper file of admin component where I fetch category and return url of category.
The function in helper is fine and works ...
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htaccess 404 Redirect Not Working
I recently redesigned a site and there are loads of 404 pages, so to simplify things I want to add a redirect to my htaccess, redirecting any 404 pages to the home page.
I though it was as simple as ...
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How to add category name to url path for an article in Joomla 4?
How to display category name in the url path?
Say I have a category named cat1, and an article1 under this category.
I want to display website.wb/cat1/article1, but what I get is website.wb/article1. ...
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Link to Page & Pre-Filter Portfolio Items
Joomla 3.9.10
I am using this template. I would like to create a link on my home page that when clicked, will take the user to the portfolio page and display a pre-selected tab..
For example my link ...
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How to fix empty Itemid's like https://www.joomla.org/?Itemid=
Google has indexed an URL on my site like this:
https://www.joomla.org/?Itemid=
This results in strange page of course. Try it with your own site!
What would be the best way to redirect this to the ...
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Translate only one string in component rest of component stay with default language
Is there a way to translate a single string with a language that is different from the default language?
(Google search did not lead me to a solution.) Example code that does not work:
// This shows ...
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Find Article SEF URL by ID
Is it possible to get SEF URL from Joomla article ID through some API?
I'm moving data from old custom CMS to Joomla. Articles in old CMS contain links to each other.
Old articles had their full URL ...
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How to make Category Links noindex
Is there a way to make all my categories to be "noindex"? (Plugin or even better default joomla way)
Right now crawlers find the category URLs and thus create duplicate content on search engines.
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Suddenly URLs with "table/"
I'm running a simple site based on Joomla. The SEF URLs are defined by SH404SEF and look like https://[domain]/[category]/[sub category]/[article title alias].html.
In some cases there is a 1-to-1 ...
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Joomla tag links in articles url problem
Having the latest Joomla 3.9.1, when I insert tags in articles, the url when I hover over the tags under the article from a category blog page is example.com/component/tags/tag/my-example-tag.
I have ...
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Site keeps browsing itself all the time
I run the server where this Joomla! site is hosted, so I have root access to it. There is something in the configuration, or somewhere in its code, that keeps browsing the site itself. If I run
# ...
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Edit HTML-Code of specific Joomla Page
I am a Joomla Beginner and would like to know, how I can edit the HTML-Code of a specific webpage in Joomla.
I am not talking about editing an article, but the whole URL. And just a single one! Is ...
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Does JRoute by default finds path to menu link (SEF)
What do I understand in Joomla is that until you create a menu for a specific view you will be getting component links to its views, in this manner:
component/component_name/location/new-york (ex #1)...
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How does JFactory::getApplication->input get the input id
I am trying to get the current itemid of an especific menu which calls a custom component.
I had a custom component called on the menu with the url /something.
Inside of the site model of my ...
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How to get URL parameter via Joomla api with decoded strings?
how can I get the full url parameter with the url-encoded values
?myParam=dummy%C3%B6%C3%A4%C3%BC
this is the decoded url:
?myParam=dummyöäü
if I use
$myText = urldecode(JFactory::getApplication(...
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How can I duplicate a category blog on the home page but still use the original article URLs?
I have a category blog for News. If I click its menu item I'm taken to /news, and if I then click an article link I'm taken to /news/article-title as expected.
However, I also want to show some of ...
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How to remove menu parent from url?
The Joomla menu system includes the menu's parent name in the URL structure for sub-menu items as follows:
https://www.mysite.com/parent/page
I'd like to remove the parent directory from the url as ...
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How to link article to specific menu item?
I have two menu items, for example Menu1 and Menu2. Both are a Category Blog for same category Cat1, but Menu1 has some specified tags.
Of course, some articles are present on both pages, and all url'...
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SEF : URL shows user email - Routing
I am working on an ecommerce joomla site and I am having some trouble with SEF URLs. When I turn this functionality ON in the Global Configuration of Joomla Backend, it appends user's email address (...
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how to change urls to look like subdomains but function as a single domain?
I have a Joomla! site hosted by Rochen, and am wondering whether it is possible for me to change the structure of urls as follows.
Currently my site (Joomla 3.8) has urls that look like this:
www....
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Automatic url linking
I want that my links for example http://mysite.com get automatically converted to a hyperlink when i paste it in the editor. How is this possible?
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How do I set the Home menu item to a URL like /?
I have Joomla behind a reverse proxy. I want the Home menu item to point to /, not the fully qualified domain name that it is running on. How do I do that?
I tried changing the Home "Menu Item Type" ...
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How do I turn off Joomla inserting a BASE tag into the HTML?
I set up Joomla to access it through a reverse-proxy. Everything works fine except the HTML has a <base> tag pointing to the real domain name. The browser changes relative links like /signup ...
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How to put utf8 characters in alias?
I am trying to set Chinese URLs for my Joomla site. However, I can't just put Chinese characters in the "alias"; I've also tried putting in url-encoded utf8 characters like %E7%9A%84, but it will be ...
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How to correctly create dynamic content for Joomla?
I know this is a broad question but I really need to ask it. I started using Joomla a long time ago, and I have build a pretty extensive system that is highly used but I never liked the way I did it. ...
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URL Not Working When SEF is Disabled in Joomla 3.0 Custom Component
I am developing custom component for joomla 3.x.
Our urls for non-sef views are not working url: index.php?option=com_mycomponent&view=myview2&id=mycustomeitemid
The same url when sef is ...
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How can I redirect a URL to another domain?
I want foo.example.horse/short to redirect to the external URL https://some.long.org/url/that/i/want/to/redirect_to. Is there a simple way to do this from Joomla, or do I have to edit the .htaccess ...
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Error 500 when I turn on URL rewriting in back end
I have rename htaccess.txt and changed it to .htaccess.
When I visit the site everything is fine (I think). When I turn on rewrite URLs in the back end I get error 500. https://docs.joomla.org/...
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Custom redirect points to correct page but prints 404 in <title>
I'm new to joomla and this isn't my field. I'm developing a module which should be shown on a page.
The URL which prints the content is info-compagnie-aeree.html?iata=af and I want it to be compagnie-...
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Simplify menu item URLs
I would like to simplify SEF URLs of menu items in lower levels of my menu by omitting the parent menu item alias from the URL.
I installed the Direct Alias plugin, which should be doing exactly this ...
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How can I make a directory accessible without putting it on a menu?
I want users to be able to download a file from my Joomla website, but I don't want the URL posted anywhere on my site. How can I make a file downloadable without adding any links to it from my site?