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Hello again: I'm having problems trying to set Muscol as the main page for my site in order to take advantage of Joomla's multilingual tools AND Muscol built-in SEF.

The Main Menu in every language I installed (ALL/EN/ES) point to Muscol's homepage, which should produce an url like mysite/muscol. I can do this manually and it works, but none of the menus do this by clicking on them.

Is there something I should know about working with Joomla's built-in multilingual elements or SEF settings? You can check out my web at lobotoradio.com
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    Tuesday, July 10 2012, 08:09 AM - #Permalink
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    Hello: I removed all the multilingual stuff from the website to see if the home menu item would link to Muscol mainpage but no luck at all.

    Thanks in advance for your help.
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    Tuesday, July 10 2012, 09:56 AM - #Permalink
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    hello! what you mean?
    I took a look a the site, and it seems just fine to me!
    if you're in the homepage, /muscol won't be in the URL in the homepage!
    the homepage is /es or /en, just as it should be!
    it all looks good to me! :)

    nice site by the way :)
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    Tuesday, July 10 2012, 11:07 AM - #Permalink
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    Arrg! Just lost a long message because sesion timed out :angry:

    Anyway, short version:

    Frontpage links don't link to Muscol SEF and keep /component/muscol/ structure, including language flags AND the Default Pages in the menu.

    I added another item (besides Default Pages) to the menu linking to Muscol's main page and that works. From there I can enter to Muscol's main page and be SEF happy. Problem is that Joomla's frontpage always lands on nonsef page and everything published there is not SEF. Also, now I have two menus linking to SEF and non-SEF versions of my site.

    If it cannot be solved I've been thinking od hiding those extra menu items (the Default Pages) with display:none, but still have the problem of the frontpage not linking right. Any ideas?

    And thank you for your words on the site. YOU have a nice site, I'm just starting with mine. It will take a bit to be as cool as yours B)
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    Tuesday, July 10 2012, 11:09 AM - #Permalink
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    For reference, in the menu HOME and INICIO are the Default Pages (non SEF linking). PRINCIPAL and MAIN are not Default Pages but also link to Muscol Main Page and link fine.
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    Tuesday, July 10 2012, 11:10 AM - #Permalink
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    hello,

    are you using the DEFAULT ITEMID parameter on Music Collection's configuration?
    that could help you with that SEF problem.
    you should put in there the ID of the menu item that points to music collection. do you know what I mean?

    Germi
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    Tuesday, July 10 2012, 12:10 PM - #Permalink
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    Hermano, took me a bit to figure it out, but YES! Now everything is as it should be :laugh: Been working on this for so long!

    I added the itemid to every module and they all link to Muscol's main page. Only problem I found is that adding the itemid in the parameters is confusing for a multilingual site. Should I add the English menu id or the Spanish menu id? I added the Spanish one but does not seem to have any adverse effect.

    So far problem seems solved. Thank you very much for your kind help.
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    Tuesday, July 10 2012, 09:12 PM - #Permalink
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    :lol: great news then!
    well, the truth is any of the ID should be fine I think because the language system works in a "symetric" way as far as I know... ! ;)
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