Cannot view joomla component

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I've created a joomla component which consists of a html form, and when I try and browse to it:

index.php?option=com_helloworld

I get an error 404, component cannot be found.

I'm following this tutuorial:

http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_Component/2.5/Developing_a_Basic_Component

Can anyone please tell me how I can browse to the page?

UPDATE: here is the link to my sample component, its a basic html form.

http://tinyurl.com/d6tj7rz

Many thanks

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joomlacomponents
paste your code in the question and make sure your component was installed correctly. - Toretto
Are you sure that your component was installed successfully? On what step of tutorial you are now? - Dmitry Rekun
Many thanks for your reply, I am on the first page, where it states 'You can test this basic component by putting index.php?option=com_helloworld in your browser address (don't forget to prefix this address with your Joomla!2.5 installation path) after installing this component.' Nothing is displayed I get a 404 error. - Bomber

1 Answers

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IIRC, even if a component is not installed correctly, you can still access the code if it's on the server, from my experience. But that may have been a 1.5 thing.

If you don't specify a view in the URL by passing &view=viewname, AND you haven't set a default fallback view, then you can't expect to have anything come up.

For a good example on how to set a default view, look in components/com_contact/controller.php line 38.

Within the main controller's display method:

// Set the default view name and format from the Request.
$vName = $this->input->get('view', 'categories');
$this->input->set('view', $vName);