Joomla Core SEF Urls with hidden Menue / duplicate alias problem

April 5, 2011 at 09:24 AM

Hi,

I have a city guide reviews website. I use Joomla Core SEF. My main menue uses jReviews menue items (section lists and category lists), and in order to achieve proper section/category URL paths, I have followed the advice in the documentation and created a secondary hidden menue with joomla section/category blog views of the same categories.

My problem is that the "alias" cannot be the same in the main menue and the hidden menue items. So for example the duplicate entries' alias in the hidden menue for "Berlin" cannot be the same as the alias for the jReviews menue item "Berlin". If they are the same, I get the Joomla default blog view when clicking the menue item, instead of the desired jReviews list view.

But if I use different aliases for the main and the hidden menue, the URL paths for the list views and the detail page views become inconsistent.

For example:

Real jReviews menue is Title: "Berlin" | Alias: "berlin"

Hidden Joomla menue is Title: "Berlin" | Alias: "berlin-home"

This gives me the URLs "http://www.cityguide.de/berlin" and "http://www.cityguide.de/berlin/hotels" for categories,

but "http://www.cityguide.de/berlin-home/hotels/78-park-hotel" for detail pages.

Real jReviews menue is Title: "Berlin" | Alias: "berlin-home"

Hidden Joomla menue is Title: "Berlin" | Alias: "berlin"

This gives me the URLs "http://www.cityguide.de/berlin-home" and "http://www.cityguide.de/berlin-home/hotels" for categories,

but "http://www.cityguide.de/berlin/hotels/78-park-hotel" for detail pages.

So either way, the URLs are not consistent between the list and detail views.

What I would obviously want, is:

http://www.cityguide.de/berlin

http://www.cityguide.de/berlin/hotels

http://www.cityguide.de/berlin/hotels/78-park-hotel"

How can I achieve this? Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks,

Sebastian

April 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM