Question K 1.6.3 - Forum working only when set as first menu item ?!?

Everything works fine if "Forum" link is set as first item in main menu. If I put it after Home (that the main menu items go like this: Home, Forum,...), forum doesn't work at all. I get that "too many connections" error as was already mentioned many times.

I tried all combinations with Kunena menu, switching modules,... but I can't get it working anywhere else than on first menu position.

The point is that "Forum" can't be the first menu item. It has to be Home, then I got some other items, and on the 4th place I want forum.

Is there any way to do this? What am I doing wrong? Experts please help!

G'day, myprison, and welcome to Kunena.

Let's separate the issues. There's Kunena and Joomla. Kunena is easy. Joomla isn't easy ... and that must come as a huge surprise to everyone who thinks that Joomla is easy.

The issue that you refer to is a Joomla issue.

In K 1.6.3, the "forum" link is published as the first item in the main menu. This was to make it easy for people who found that Joomla was too difficult to learn and who just wanted to get a forum running quickly. J! 1.6 caused a few problems and so, from K 1.6.4 (which has not yet been released) this built-in feature of the installer has been changed. From K 1.6.4, if you already have a menu link published, the installer will not change anything. If you do not have a menu link published, the installer will create a menu link but it will not publish it. That's something you have to do yourself.

You can move menu items around. If your forum link is #1 you can make it #2 (if you have already have a #2) or #10 (if you have 10 items). That's basic Joomla. There's no hidden tricks there.

But if you create, by hand, a new link to Kunena then you have to be aware of the correct procedure to do that. This is covered in Customised menus in the Wiki. These techniques are not for inexperienced Joomla users.

It may also help to know if you have properly implemented Joomla Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Have you?

Thanks for fast reply.

I've got Joomla! 1.5.22 Stable. And I'm not a newbie btw

You can move menu items around. If your forum link is #1 you can make it #2 (if you have already have a #2) or #10 (if you have 10 items). That's basic Joomla. There's no hidden tricks there.

I've got "Forum" link on 1st place. If I move it to 2nd, 3rd,... the link "Forum" doesn't work any more.

I tried many combinations. I deleted menus and create new one in Kunena (button Create menus) and didn't touched anything else. By default the "Forum" link was on the #1 position. I just put it to #2 (by clicking "down" green arrow in menu admin). Doens't work any more.
I also tried making to make menu as mentioned on Wiki; the same thing happend. I can't get it working on other positions.

It seems very strange to me. DO you have any idea how to set this right?

Damn, I did it ))

Huh... I think that my solution isn't "by the book" but it doesn't matter
I played around with aliases. I disabled Kunena's "Forum" link in menu & created another one with "forum1" alias and link to original "index.php?option=com_kunena&view=entrypage". It works

Yes, it will "work" but it won't necessarily work properly. Even without seeing your K 1.6 configuration report it seems that you have may not have properly implemented Joomla SEO. Good luck with what you've got. You may have problems later on (I won't elaborate on them here) but those are things you can sort out yourself if you take note of the recommendations that we have made in this topic and elsewhere (esp. if you search for "Search Engine Optimisation" and "Customised menus").