Joomla output override not working

Question

Does anybody know why an output override won't work? I am familiar with output override and have tried it before, but this time it wont work. I am trying to override an article category blog layout, so I copied

\\components\\com_content

and paste it to my template, inside "html" folder which I just made

\templates\my_teamplate\html\com_content

I edited

\templates\my_teamplate\html\com_content\views\category\tmpl\blog.php

and it won't work, I tried editing the original core, to make sure it's the correct file

\components\com_content\views\category\tmpl\blog.php

and it worked, im pretty sure, it's the correct file, I just dont know the reason why it's not overriding. My Joomla version is 1.5.26

Answer 1

The HTML override does not mirror the component's exact folder structure.

Its default structure is:

component/view/template.php

In your case:

templates/yourTemplate/html/com_content/category/blog.php

Edit

I am extending the example and adding the path for modules as well, in case anyone needs it:

Component:

The Joomla path to the original component view's template that you want to override:

/component/[componentName]/views/[viewName]/tmpl/[templateName].php

gets overridden by this file in your template:

/templates/[yourTemplate]/html/[componentName]/[viewName]/[templateName].php

Module:

The Joomla path to the original module's template that you want to override:

/module/[moduleName]/tmpl/[templateName].php

gets overridden by this file in your template:

/templates/[yourTemplate]/html/[moduleName]/[templateName].php

Answer 2

Folder structure should be

templates/template_name/html/com_content/category/blog.php