404 Cat. not found

[drak]

Getting a 404-Category not found error on Jevents menu I created. It’s a monthly menu but get the same for multiple types. I can get calendar to display in a mod but when clicked gets the same 404 error. I’ve found several threads about this, and it seems it's a SEF issue. Everything works with SEF turned off in Joomla config but when on, I get the '404 cat. not found' page. I’m on a fresh install of Joomla 2.5.8 and Jevents (ver 2.2.8) and setting it up a new site. My hosting is Godaddy.

My htaccess does have rewrite turned on, and I’ve tried changing the Jevents SEF configuration option to off but doesn’t help. Also I have no menu item restrictions. Currently running php 5.3 on a linux hosted server.

I also tried changing my htaccess file to .htaccess to see if there's any effect but no change. I’ve used Jevents on 2 other sites so far with no issues and it’s far superior to other options out there, but I’m a little frustrated because I’ve not been able to troubleshoot this issue effectively so far. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Tonyp]

Hello,

What does the URL look like? do you use any SEF plugins apart from the standard Joomla! one?

Regards
Tony

[drak]

URL is: …/index.php/events-calendar/month_calendar/2013/01/-

I use no SEF extensions, and the only extensions I’ve installed so far are JCE editor, JCE MediaBox and ALFContact. If I take away from the URL everything after the ‘events-calendar’ then the calendar comes up but still can’t click on a date without getting the 404 page.

[Geraint]

Try disabling the new SEF Urls in the Jevents config (SEF) tab - its possible that your server software doesn't like the underscore in the month_calendar part of the URL.

[drak]

Try disabling the new SEF Urls in the Jevents config (SEF) tab - its possible that your server software doesn't like the underscore in the month_calendar part of the URL.

As I mentioned in my initial post, I tried that.

[Geraint]

The 404 category error is normally caused by the joomla SEF system redirecting the URL to the default com_content output.

What does the non-SEF version of the URL look like?

If you rename .htaccess back to htaccess.txt is the problem resolved?

[drak]

I did rename the htaccess file back to original name after I found renaming didn't help.

.../index.php?option=com_jevents&view=month&layout=calendar&Itemid=120

[Geraint]

I assume that there is no .../ at the start of the URL - that is just shorthand for the domain ??

This problem is arising outside of JEvents - your site isn't even getting to JEvents (com_jevents) its going to com_content for some reason. Please disable any non-core Joomla system plugins you may have installed. Also try the URL without the &Itemid=120 at the end

[drak]

The URL I put above works fine, it's what I have with the Joomla SEF options off. I don't want to keep that off though, so I'm still looking for a solution.

[Tonyp]

With SEF Enabled, please try enabled JEvents SEF in it's configuration options.