Phoca Forum

Hi Jan, hi forum,

I`ve the following problem using PhocaPDF:

Clicking on a PDF-icon within article generates the following link:

http://www.tripguru.de/reiseziele/tript ... mat=[b]pdf[/b]

If PhocaPDF should be used I need a link like this:

http://www.tripguru.de/reiseziele/tript ... b]phocapdf[/b]

If I type the link/url manually I get a correct PhocaPDF...

Plugin is activated and the latest verion from your website
Joomla is 1.5.15
PHP is 5.2.11
Standard Joomla-Core-SEF is enabled, using mod_rewrite i enabled, url suffix is disabled. Tryed to make several changes in these settings but almost the same error...

Any idea?

Maybe I have to use mod-rewrite to change the PDF-urls by changing "pdf" into "phocapdf" but I don`t know how to write rewrite rules???

Thanks for this great extension, hope it will work on my site soon, too.


Kind regards from Detmold/Germany,

Michael


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http://www.tripguru.de

Did you try to change the settings in Components -Phoca PDF - Plugins - Content Plugin - PDF folder: SEF (Add Suffix) Enabled ?

Hi Jan,

yes, I´ve tried several options: Joomla SEF off, pdf-plugin SEF enabled off, yes (.pdf) and yes(.pdf?) or Joomla SEF onandtried the three option in your plugin,I´ve changed the order of the Joomla system plugins - put phoca plugin to the first and last position but always the same...

Thanks,
Michael

seems like there is some problem in the url which caused not finding it, but this should not be problem:

format=pdf

as this should be found by this:

(.*)format=pdf(.*)

Hi Jan,

I´ve solved the problem by using rewrite rules on my apache

I´ve just modified my .htaccess by adding these two little lines:
Works perfect for me


Anyway, thanks again,
Michael

Great to hear it. Thank you for this information. Jan

Hi!
On my fresh installed Joomla 1.5.15 I have installed Phoca-PDF, because of the superior quality of PDF-generation. For SEF-urls I have installed sH404SEF with .htaccess / rewrite. Right from the beginning, I have had the problem, that the URL for the PDFs are not generated correctly.
As the website had to go live with all that content, I have disabled all PDF-icons. Now there is time enough, to correct this issue. And so I have found this thread.

I have inserted the 2 lines in my .htaccess file at different positions, I have tried to switch the generation of the extension in Phoca PDF plugin, I have of course cleared the cache and deleted all the SEF-URLs concerning the links to generate PDFs and so on.
But with no effort! I always see the following urls:
1.) I call this webpage http://www.gessso.de/orga/datenschutz.html
2.) The link which is connected with the PDF-icon is:
http://www.gessso.de/pdf/orga/datenschutz.pdf
3.) When I click on it, the url will be redirected to the home page and
the homepage appears in a separate browser window.

Strange thing: According to the PDF-link on your Phoca-PDF demo site, I have used thsi url:
http://www.gessso.de/orga/datenschutz.h ... t=phocapdf
And immediately the PDF has been generated correctly and the browser asked me, whether to download it. So I see that Phoca is able to work. But the URLs are wrong.

This behaviour will keep constant regardless of the settings in the Phoca-PDF-plugin or the additional lines in .htaccess or purging SEF URLs in sH404SEF.
BTW: I have disabled the SEF-URL generation in sH404SEF for Phoca-PDF, but also without success.

How can I find out, what is going wrong here?
Kind regards
Clemens