#108 – Article's have wrong associated menu item

Hi

From your other ticket, I assume you have a multilingual site. First you should update to the upcoming release of sh404SEF which has several more workarounds for J! 3.4.1 ML issues.

As for menu itemid being wrong, it depends on your menu structure and whether there can be links on your site that may be missing Itemids (in the non-sef urls). Modules like "Recent content" or "Most popular" may do that sort of thing.

Taking http://www.xxxx.net/game-servers/halo-combat-evolved-game-server-hosting as an example, search for it in the URL manager, and see if it has "Duplicates" showing (see https://weeblr.com/images/screenshots/KPv4bEultjHEv3JJlGHJXZMS5NTB8s.png). If so, click on that orange badge, you'll see something like this: https://weeblr.com/images/screenshots/OKiGpOBjEfAKZgma3ln3NmIlpzcXTz.png
Select the non-sef URLs with the correct Itemid, and click on main.

This procedure allows manually fixing the links, it'd be better to find how and why some links without Itemids, or with the wrong ones are generated on the site.

Rgds

Good for home page. For other links, can you do a screenshot (monosnap or similar is great for that) of the duplicate urls view, showing the different Itemids?

Rgds

Hi

Here is the duplicate URLs I see for game-servers/halo-combat-evolved-game-server-hosting:

https://weeblr.com/images/screenshots/UpBQuyp8qLaDKzMOljDsKFONlE3Pak.png

I can see that you still have malformed URLs with bad language on them: &lang=en-GB.

The 3 first URLs are bad, they're go to either your All-language homepage (Itemid = 101) or your Default language homepage (Itemid=118 - and that URL is the malformed one).

I guess the correct URL is that with Itemid = 393?

After fighting with your site for about an hour, I found that there was an alias added that has Itemid=101. And that maybe the root of the problem, as it causes a URL with Itemid = 101 to be recreated all the time.

So after purging URLs, and making the URL with Itemid = 393 the "Main" URL, it started working fine (https://weeblr.com.png). The problem is actually fixing the alias, and possibly other aliases. They should use the correct Itemid, 393 in that case, not 101.

Needless to say, you be able to debug this, you have to disable full page cache,otherwise things get all mixed with cached data, and you never if what you do actually produces any result.
I also had to disable JCH optimize, as it would produce a php error as well.
As a side note, you should run with Display error set to maximum (that's my default config),you have several extensions producing errors and warnings.

Rgds

Hi

Nope, Itemids are Joomla field, we can't do anything about it really. What I have in mind instead is to allow "overriding" an itemid id, or maybe simply allow to specify templates and modules per URL.
But that's not for the immediate future, maybe a few months away

Please close ticket if you consider the matter solved for now.

Rgds