Phoca Download and Joomla's URL rewriting system

[agaudin]

Hello

I set Joomla's URL rewriting system on "ON", but it doesn't work as I would like to.

All links are now https://mysite.org/my_menu/SOME-CATEGOR ... d=id:title

The problem is, SOME-CATEGORIE is one of my PhocaDL categories (the one with the smallest ID value - so the "forst" category Joomla found in the database) which is not the main one - so the link created is confusing.

Can I set this ? Or can I tell to Joomla to not rewrite when it is about PhocaDL ?

Regards,
Antoine

[Jan]

Hi, which Joomla version and which Phoca Download version do you use?

Did you create a menu link to Phoca Download?

One or more? If more, can you disable them all except one - the one to categories view? When you have only one to categories view, do you get the same problem?

See demo (such way it should normally work):

Categories view:
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/phoca-download-demo

Category view:
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/phoca-downloa ... -documents
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/phoca-download-demo/2-files

Each category has own URL.

[agaudin]

Hello,

(Joomla 4.2.4 and PhocaDL 4.0.4)

you're RIGHT ! I had several menus pointing to several categories. When I unpublished all of them EXCEPT the one pointing to PhocaDL categories root (view of all categories), everything was immediatly back to normal as a charm.
So now we know the problem comes from the fact that Joomla url's rewriting system is lost with several PhocaDL menus.

Just to be sure I got it : I have to recreat all links pointing to a specific category NOT with PhocaDL menu but with URL menu, right ? Joomla's rewriting system needs only ONE menu link to the root, not to be lost, is that correct ?

Thanx a lot for your answer, and double thanks for all your amazing extensions and your excellent work. Phoca rules !! I mention it with a backlink on all the websites I am using it (example here : https://upbm.org/site-association/mentions-legales).

Best regards,
Antoine

[Jan]

Hi, yes, the best way is to create only one menu link - to categories view and if needed a link to category view, making it with URL directly (copying the link fromt the tree and paste it as absolute link in menu manager)

Jan