Strange...

[Dicebat]

Something really odd is happening with a site I designed recently. (well, maybe it’s not that odd to you dudes who know more than me, but it’s weird to me nonetheless).


I designed my own custom template for Joomla. It works 100% in Xampp. I uploaded it to the server yesterday and back end works flawlessly, frontpage loads perfectly… but when you click on the other links in the navigation bar, the template doesn’t seem to load correctly.

Also notice how the site’s url continues when you carry on clicking on the links: /index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/ghost-writer

Anyone perhaps know what's cracking with my site?

 

[James]

Have you made sure you copied .htaccess file accross? It is hidden so might have been overloocked. Sounds like it could be dodgy re-writes going on. You can try a test and turn off URL re-write and see if that fixes it, if it does you can either re-create the .htaccess file of make joomla create a new one.

 

[Dicebat]

Thanks James, I'll have a look into those options.

 

[Dicebat]

Aaah awesome! Resolved, thanks James! I turned off "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and now it works!

 

[zjvren]

Also, remember that if you are making use of SEF URLs you do need to specify the livesite variable in the configuration.php file. If this is not specified then the first page will work fine, but if you click on any links the CSS will appear "broken".

 

[kd100]

when using sef urls and have joomla installed you need to rename your .htaccess file to something you will remember and look for a file called htacess.txt and rename that to .htaccess.

Depending on what sef com or mod you are using you might have to open the newly named .htaccess file and uncomment ( take away the #'s ) to which com or mod is applicable to you. Most cases you wont have to uncomment.

 

[guest2013-1]

I'm not sure why people use Joomla, the ones I helped transfer/setup with new templates also had issues with SEF url's, on native Linux... not even a hybrid crippled Windows/PHP install.

Wordpress on the other hand just works from the get go... no tinkering needed.