Joomla article alies are not working

Question

I am getting 404 error while accessing newly created article through alias, I found that there need to be some thing like this to be worked :

http://yoursite.com/section-alias/category-alias/article-alias

Still showing 404 error, any idea? If I just use http://yoursite.com/section-alias It also gives 404 - any idea?

I am using joomla 1.5.23

My current sef settings are:

• Search Engine Friendly: on
• Use Apache mod_rewrite: on
• Add suffix to URLs: off

Answer 1

Create a hidden menu (ie a menu that is not to be displayed to the site visitors) from the Menu Manager and add the articles as menu items. You need not create a module for this menu as you are not going to display them in the frontend. By creating a menu item Joomla keeps track of the aliases and displays them properly.

On a sidenote, you have search friendly urls turned on... so have you renamed the htaccess.txt to .htaccess? Please check that also.

If you're having problems with certain links giving 404, check all your menus and look for duplication of aliases.

Please have a look at this thread also: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1896103

Answer 2

You need to create also a menu item which points to this article. Then with the menu alias you can access the article.