SEF urls are finally working again|
Jan 05
2009
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SEF urls are finally working againPosted by: Tony Lindskog in Joomla Views Blog on Jan 5, 2009 Tagged in: Untagged
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Phew...
I had a real long day working on iJoomla's most excellent component Newsportal today and getting our SEF urls back up again after yesterdays forced Newsportal upgrade.
My Server administrator did some server work yesterday and this caused iJoomla Newsportal to absolutely just puke with the following error.
"Fatal error: Non-static method NewsPortalDisplay::NewsPortalDisplay() cannot be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/xxx/public_html/components/com_news_portal/helpers/generate_display.php on line 942"Good news is that this was a known issue at iJoomla and I was advised right away to just go ahead and download the latest Newsportal version (1.5.4) and I was back up and running again in no time.
The problem I found was that the Featured Categories did not give unique item id#s, but rather would use the same item id as the current page viewed which made it impossible to link to those Newsportal categories.
Long story short, the fix was to delete all three Newsportal menus (Sections/Categories/content) and uninstall iJoomla Newsportal and re-install it as this re-generates the Newsportal menus, something which cannot unfortunately be done manually without re-installation at this time.
However, all of this is a cake walk, takes no time at all UNLESS you have duplicate named categories in Joomla and Azrul's MyBlog which of course, I did!
So many hours of head scratching later I finally figured this anomaly out, renamed the categories appropriately and we are now back up and running with perfectly styled Search Engine Friendly URLs for iJoomla Newsportal via SEF Advanced 2008; two of Joomla CMSs finest components.
the end.
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