Sticky [Merged topic] The great, frequently-asked, "I cannot create a new thread in my forum" question

Hi,

I have upgraded Kunena a couple of weeks ago. Everything worked fine. Today I deleted non published forums and added a new one. After that, strangely enough, all internal links to "Recent Discussions", "Categories" and all topics only goes to the registration page. The forum is all publically open in all settings.

Since it worked yesterday and I can not see the connection and all settings are the same, this is very strange. The forum doesn't work anymore.

Can someone please help me out on this?

Thanks!

Z

G'day, Zentra and welcome to Kunena.

Your problem is a curious one, but you might be able to solve it yourself in a very small amount of time if you follow the link using the directions in the following image:


If this information doesn't point you to where you can find the answer, please let us know. Good luck.

Good morning,

I read the documentation after installation and went throuh it again before asking the forum. I have also searched the forum but were not able to find anything similar.

There is nowhere where I can see anything about what influences internal links in Kunena. If I missed it, please give me the direction.

The documentation is very high level and not useful for debugging purposes. So, I was hoping the Kunena team would be able to tell me some more about what can cause this.

Version is 1.5.11 on Joomla! 1.5.17 with CB 1.2.2.

Regards,
Z

Please familiarise yourself with Sections, Categories, sub-Categories (Part 1) . I think this is the area you need to concentrate on. I could be mistaken, but I suspect that when you added a new category, you actually added a new section.

It may be necessary to view your website. Can we do that easily? :dry:

Hi again,

No, I can not see this related to categories/sub categories.

The issue is like this:

If I link to the Forum via a mainmenu item, everything works. But if I link to the Forum via the very same url, it doesn't. F.ex. if I put the link to the forum in a mod_custom html a href link.

This works for any other component (we have installed at least) and it actually worked before yesterday.

It seems as Kunena is totally dependent on having a mainmenu item. I'll leave there for now since it is running again with that change, but roll the ball over to you guys to think about this and if it is someting you should work on.

Best regards,

Zentra

Zentra wrote:

If I link to the Forum via a mainmenu item, everything works. But if I link to the Forum via the very same url, it doesn't.

This is new information that you didn't mention in you opening post.

Zentra wrote:

It seems as Kunena is totally dependent on having a mainmenu item. I'll leave there for now since it is running again with that change, but roll the ball over to you guys to think about this and if it is someting you should work on.

Not true that Kunena is totally dependent on having a "mainmenu item". Kunena works just like any other Joomla component. If you know the URL structure, you can create a link to your forum, just like you can create a link to anything else on your website.

I don't know what we have to "think about" because I think we're now further from Kunena than when this discussion started. Here are some questions for you to think about:

• What is it that you want to work?
• What do you need to know to make it work?

:S