How To Solve Ambiguous Joomla Link

Question

I still don't understand with joomla menu structure. Let say I have Categories structure like below

Category 1 - Category 1.1 - Category 1.2 - Category 1.3 - Category 1.4

Category 2 - Category 2.1 - Category 2.2 - Category 2.3 - Category 2.4

Then, I create a menu, where the structure of menu is as follow

• Home
• Category 1 (article >> categories) -- Category 1.1 (article >> category blog) -- Category 1.2 (article >> category blog) -- Category 1.3 (article >> category blog) -- Category 1.4 (article >> category blog)
• Category 2 (article >> categories) -- Category 2.1 (article >> category blog) -- Category 2.2 (article >> category blog) -- Category 2.3 (article >> category blog) -- Category 2.4 (article >> category blog)

So, when I create that menu, then run the joomla, let say I open Category 2 page, then joomla will show categories child of Category 2 (including with the links). However, when I open one of category child directly from the page (not from menu module), it will have different url if I open from menu module. I was recorded is as follow (just example)

• joomla2511/index.php/category-2/76-category-21.html (if I open directly from Category 2 page)

• joomla2511/index.php/category-2/category-21.html (if I open from menu module)

My question is, I don't want to use url from the page, but I want from menu module even I open it from Category 2 page.

Thanks for your advance.

Answer 1

I had same problem few months ago. As far as I remember problem is that Categories few displays links to subcategories pointing to category articles list when your subcategory menu item points to category articles blog. For Joomla those are 2 different pages thats why they have 2 different urls. Solution for this are two:

Easy

Make every subcategory menu item pointing to category articles list

Better

Edit categories list view so every subcategory url will point to category blog view not category articles list