Creating Category Url in joomla

Question

I create new category in Joomla 3.3 name water . I wan to display that category page like http://www.myserver.com/Joomla/water It's display 404 error. If i create menu for that so it's display. I Have many categories so help me to see category page without create menu.

Answer 1

You can achieve this by using url rewriting like below.

Put the following code in your joomla .htaccess file after RewriteEngine On statement.

 RewriteRule jcats/(.*)$ index.php?option=com_mycomponent&task=mycontroller.viewitem&catalias=$1 [NC,L]

In this way any url like http://example.com/jcats/about-us would give you the last parameter as catalias variable and either with the help of a new component called com_mycomponent or com_content can be used to display the category or articles in the category.

I have done this beautifully for one of my website. If you need further help, feel free to revert back .