Question Reinstalled K-menu, broke SEF

Hi all,

Last night, while tweaking the Kunena menu module, I inadvertently changed its position. As a result, it was no longer displayed.

No problem: I reinstalled it from the Control Panel and everything seemed fine again...

Except that Joomla SEF broke for forum posts.

The menu links work fine, but opening a message thread generates a "redirect loop".

My only recourse is to turn off Joomla SEF.

There are a huge number of messages on the topic of "redirect loops" here, and I just read bunch of them, but I didn't find anything that helped.

There are many reference to .htaccess, but I haven't touched that. There are also mentions of itemIDs, but I don't know anything about that.

Any ideas what might be going wrong here?

Thanks.

You will see what's wrong if you look at your K 1.6 configuration report. If you recall, Colin, I offered to help you with this issue a couple of weeks ago - to show you how to go about putting a Kunena menu on your website. You decided that you did not require my help then. Would you like it now?

Thanks as always, Sozzled.

(You offered to help me with something awhile back but that nothing to do with the Kunena menu. Perhaps a different "Colin"...?)

Not sure what I should be looking for in the report below. Does anything catch your eye?

Yes, I know I am still running 1.6.4-DEV. I had a bug with 1.6.4 release. I'll explain, I promise

TIA

Database collation check: The collation of your table fields are correct

Legacy mode: Disabled | Joomla! SEF: Enabled | Joomla! SEF rewrite: Enabled | FTP layer: Disabled |

This message contains confidential information

htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 99 seconds | Max execution memory: 120M | Max file upload: 120M

Joomla default template details : Sense | author: K2B-media | version: 1.0.2 | creationdate: 07/20/10

Kunena default template details : Sense-Online | author: MJH | version: 1.0 | creationdate: 27-12-2010

Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.6.4-DEV | Build: 4547 | Version name: Rename Me for Release! | Kunena detailled configuration:

Warning: Spoiler!

[th]Kunena config settings:[/th]

board_title	SENSE
board_offline	0
board_ofset	0.00
offline_message	<h2>The web forum has been taken offline while a minor hiccup is being fixed.</h2>
enablerss	0
enablepdf	1
threads_per_page	20
messages_per_page	10
messages_per_page_search	15
showhistory	1
historylimit	6
shownew	0
jmambot	0
disemoticons	0
template	sense-online
showannouncement	1
avataroncat	0
catimagepath	category_images/
showchildcaticon	1
annmodid	62,68,72,831
rtewidth	450
rteheight	300
enableforumjump	1
reportmsg	1
username	0
askemail	0
showemail	1
showuserstats	1
showkarma	0
useredit	1
useredittime	0
useredittimegrace	600
editmarkup	1
allowsubscriptions	1
subscriptionschecked	0
allowfavorites	1
maxsubject	40
maxsig	300
regonly	1
changename	0
pubwrite	0
floodprotection	0
mailmod	0
mailadmin	0
captcha	0
mailfull	1
allowavatar	1
allowavatarupload	1
allowavatargallery	0
avatarquality	75
avatarsize	2048
allowimageupload	0
allowimageregupload	1
imageheight	1025
imagewidth	1025
imagesize	200
allowfileupload	0
allowfileregupload	1
filetypes	zip,txt,doc,gz,tgz,pdf,docx,xls,xlsx
filesize	1000
showranking	0
rankimages	1
avatar_src	fb
fb_profile	fb
pm_component	no
userlist_rows	30
userlist_online	0
userlist_avatar	1
userlist_name	1
userlist_username	0
userlist_posts	1
userlist_karma	0
userlist_email	1
userlist_usertype	0
userlist_joindate	1
userlist_lastvisitdate	1
userlist_userhits	0
latestcategory	23,16,22,25,27,31,5,4,10,18,3,6,7,8,11,2,12,14,19,13
showstats	1
showwhoisonline	0
showgenstats	1
showpopuserstats	1
popusercount	5
showpopsubjectstats	1
popsubjectcount	5
usernamechange	0
rules_infb	1
rules_cid	69
help_infb	1
help_cid	68
showspoilertag	1
showvideotag	1
showebaytag	0
trimlongurls	1
trimlongurlsfront	40
trimlongurlsback	20
autoembedyoutube	1
autoembedebay	1
ebaylanguagecode	en-us
fbsessiontimeout	1800
highlightcode	0
rss_type	post
rss_timelimit	month
rss_limit	100
rss_included_categories
rss_excluded_categories
rss_specification	rss2.0
rss_allow_html	1
rss_author_format	name
rss_author_in_title	1
rss_word_count	0
rss_old_titles	1
rss_cache	900
fbdefaultpage	recent
default_sort	asc
alphauserpointsnumchars	0
sef	1
sefcats	1
sefutf8	0
showimgforguest	1
showfileforguest	1
pollnboptions	4
pollallowvoteone	1
pollenabled	1
poppollscount	5
showpoppollstats	1
polltimebtvotes	00:15:00
pollnbvotesbyuser	100
pollresultsuserslist	1
maxpersotext	50
ordering_system	replyid
post_dateformat	ago
post_dateformat_hover	datetime
hide_ip	1
js_actstr_integration	0
imagetypes	jpg,jpeg,gif,png
checkmimetypes	1
imagemimetypes	image/jpeg,image/jpg,image/gif,image/png
imagequality	50
thumbheight	32
thumbwidth	32
hideuserprofileinfo	put_empty
integration_access	auto
integration_login	auto
integration_avatar	communitybuilder
integration_profile	communitybuilder
integration_private	uddeim
integration_activity	auto
boxghostmessage	0
userdeletetmessage	1
latestcategory_in	1
topicicons	1
onlineusers	0
debug	0
catsautosubscribed	0
showbannedreason	0
version_check	1
showthankyou	1
showpopthankyoustats	1
popthankscount	5
mod_see_deleted	0
bbcode_img_secure	text
listcat_show_moderators	1
lightbox	1
activity_limit	0
show_list_time	168
show_session_type	0
show_session_starttime	0
userlist_allowed	1
userlist_count_users	1
enable_threaded_layouts	0
category_subscriptions	topic
topic_subscriptions	first
pubprofile	1

Third-party components: CommunityBuilder 1.4 | UddeIm 2.4

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: System - Mootools Upgrade: Enabled | System - Mootools12: Disabled

Modules: None

Your K 1.6 config report shows that your menu is screwed up.

Call me on Skype and I'll fix it with you.

... and please update to the stable K 1.6.4.

OFFTOPIC:

... and please update to the stable K 1.6.4.

I did, but it broke something on my site, which I reported here: www.kunena.org/forum/159-k-16-common-que...topic-drop-down-menu .
I went through the my config over and over and couldn't figure out what was wrong, so I reverted to the previous version, 1.6.4-DEV, which "fixed" it but obviously didn't solve it.

The main problem was solved by using the trash-burn-build approach (and using Alias Menu type to define an entry point to the forum).