Question SOLVED - Change Category List URL from listcat

My Joomla main navigation points to the categories page of my Kunena forum with a url of community.html. The tab for the categories page is listcat.html and I need to change that to community.html to avoid possible duplicate content issues.

I realize that I could probably just name the main navigation listcat but I'd prefer to do it this way if possible.

Where would I go in the code to change just the url of that link?

TBC wrote:

My Joomla main navigation points to the categories page of my Kunena forum with a url of community.html. The tab for the categories page is listcat.html and I need to change that to community.html ...

Either you've fixed your problem or I've misunderstood your question. When I look at your site (as a guest):

1. Clicking the Joomla menu item labelled "Community" takes you directly to the Kunena forum categories view with the URL ../community.html
2. Clicking the Kunena tab labelled "Categories" takes you to the Kunena the Kunena forum categories view with the URL ../community.html

:S

Now although the mouse-click action takes you to the same place, I undestand the issue. When you move your mouse over the Kunena "Categories" tab, the target of the link is displayed in the bottom status bar as ..listcat.html. I mean, so what? What's the problem? The links still take you to the same web-page. Please explain the "possible duplicate content issues" that you fear and your need to mess aroung with ordinarily properly functioning code.

The reason you go to the correct page is that I've implemented a redirect in the .htaccess file for the listcat page so that any call for it is permanently redirected to the community page (as recommended by Google).

As you noted on mouseover, the link still points to the listcat page... hence the request for where in the code that it might be modified.

Do you know where in the code that I might make this change?

I suspect the place you're looking to change is about line 70 of ../components/com_kunena/lib/kunena.link.class.php but, if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't do it!

Does it matter what the mouse rollover displays on the status bar as long as the address is resolved (which you've achieved, anyway)? If you think back to the days before Kunena 1.5.3, the target of the "Categories" tab would have been displayed as "<domain-baseURL>/forum?func=listcat".

Think about the number of websites where the mouseover displays not as a URL but as a reference to a Javascript function. It's not the mouseover display that's important, it's what the link resolves to after it's been processed by the server, isn't it? I understand, from what you've written, that you disagree.

The most important point that I want to make is this: every optional change that you make now, to K 1.5.3, will have to be done again when K 1.5.4 appears, and when the next version appears after that, and so on and so forth. The more changes you make now, the more difficult it will become later to sustain a supportable version of Kunena. The more changes you make to the standard code, the more impossible it will be for you to obtain help from this forum, because your version will be so out-of-step with the mainstream. It is for these reasons that I encourage you not to ostracise yourself from this support community. If, however, you are determined to make the changes you desire, then I can only wish you good luck ... and bon voyage.

That was it, thanks very much for your time!

Just a note, I'm not here to debate best practices as it relates to internal linking but there is a wealth of information available on the web for those that are so inclined.

I will say though, for anyone checking in, that if you have identical pages on your site that are accessible via different url's it is in your site's best interest to correct it.

Thanks again for the information and I'll make note of it for future versions.