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[racman Friend racmanJoin date: November 2006Posts: 10Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#135816

Hi,

on my site I have intro animation (http://www.mirasoul.si). It’s index.html… when you skip animation you go to joomla (ja_pyrite). Here I have a problem with mainmenu. The default link in mainmenu is automaticaly trimed and it’s always only http://www.mirasoul.si… I would like to have it http://www.mirasoul.si/index.php… so visitors do not go back to animation if they click home in the mainmenu.

Thanks in advance.
Racman

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#280772

Is your ‘Home’ link set to ‘Front page blog layout’ ?

[racman Friend racmanJoin date: November 2006Posts: 10Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#280776

<em>@scotty 92839 wrote:</em><blockquote>Is your ‘Home’ link set to ‘Front page blog layout’ ?</blockquote>

yes it’s correct

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#280789

just an FYI, as cool as intro page animations are, it will compromise your search engine ranking on google, google does not like into pages and has been know to penalize sites that use them.

[racman Friend racmanJoin date: November 2006Posts: 10Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#280793

Thanks mj1256,

I’m thinking about that problem… until that… I have to fix my mainmenu problem. Any idea?

lp

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#280799

Set Home link as an external link to your http://www.your_domain.com/index.php

or….

Set Home link access level to Admin only and make a new Home link as an external link to your http://www.your_domain.com/index.php

Not really sure tbh

[racman Friend racmanJoin date: November 2006Posts: 10Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#280846

Hi,

that for advice, but it’s not working.

If I set home for admin rights, I got login in frontpage. When I make another home with external link is the same. Then I make default external link and I got no component installed.

I hope someone from pyrite design team could help. I think it’s some template hack of triming home link in mainmenu.

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#280848

I’m just guessing here but how about something in the configuration.php for the live site parameter?

$live_site=’http://www.your_domain.com/index.php‘;

Also… if you have SEF enabled then the index.php will be stripped by the rewrite condition in .htaccess

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1. cjmicro

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#280852

I had this problem too, with a non JA template. I do not think it is possible to have an external link to the default menu (home) item. So what I did was leave the home as is, but unpublish it. Then added a new menu item to the external link for home. Not sure if this will solve your problem, or if I am right in my assumption but the workaround did it for me. I also saw a couple other posts on the joomla forum that indicated the same solution.

Cheryl

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#280853

cjmicro;92935So what I did was leave the home as is, but unpublish it. Then added a new menu item to the external link for home.

hmm won’t sending a user to an unpublished menu item give a 404?

This is almost the same suggestion I gave earlier of ‘hidding’ the proper Home link and using a duplicate of sorts.

Regardless of any method used…. if SEF in enabled they will not work.

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1. cjmicro

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#280857

I don’t send them to the unpublished one, I send them to the new external one instead.

I don’t have the regular joomla sef enabled though. I am using sh404sef component. However, my menu item does work. If set it to the index.html it works, then back to index.php it also works (although does not show the index.php suffix).

Somewhere I remember that I had a problem where certain servers will default to index.php and some to index.html. I wonder if that is something that can be changed in .htaccess or on the server configuration.

In any case, what I did was, as I said, unpublish the default articles/front page home menu link, then add a new link and rename it home then make it the default, and it worked for me. I do have an index.html on the same server as well, but it does not default to that one.

I think that is what racman was trying to do, but maybe I am misunderstanding, or it’s possible it just doesn’t work with other server configurations :confused:

Cheryl

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#280879

Hi,

I have no SEF activated on this site. Every link that I make default is trimmed and always comes to http://www.mirasoul.si.

Must be some template hack, because with other templates works fine. I think it’s something with ja_menus module :S Anyone can check this for me?

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#280884

Did you try to reinstall the template files?

[racman Friend racmanJoin date: November 2006Posts: 10Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#280915

Yes I did this too. But no effect. :S

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#280942

I installed and set the pyrite template on my site and the external link worked fine, so I can’t imagine what is going on with yours. If you want me to take a look I can if you give me access (send me a PM). If not I understand, and hope you find the answer somehow!

Cheryl

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