Solved lost SEF urls after installing Admin Tools Professional

Kunena is now sending all my forum categories to a .../component/kunena/... URL and a 404 page. I haven't made any changes to my site other than installing Admin Tools Professional. I've lost my SEF urls (they are enabled in Joomla and in Kunena). Using Joomla 3.4.8 and Kunena 4.0.10, and Admin Tools changed htaccess.txt to .htaccess. Any suggestions are much appreciated!

EDIT TO ADD: I've tried disabling the Admin Tools plugin and replacing .htaccess with the standard Joomla .htaccess file, and still getting the nonSEF urls/404 message.


Here's my report:

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

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

This message contains confidential information

htaccess: Exists | PHP environment: Max execution time: 30 seconds | Max execution memory: 512M | Max file upload: 128M

Kunena menu details:

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ID	Name	Menutype	Link	Path	In trash
230	Home	mainmenu	view=topics&mode=topics	home	No
101	Categories	mainmenu	view=category&layout=list&catid=0	categories	No
158	Search	mainmenu	view=search	search	No
159	Forum	mainmenu	view=home&defaultmenu=111	discussion	No
152	Newest Topics	mainmenu	view=topics&mode=replies	new-topics	No
156	Newest Posts	mainmenu	view=topics&layout=posts&mode=recent	new-posts	No
176	My Topics	profilemenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=started	my-topics	No
177	My Posts	profilemenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=posted	my-posts	No
179	My Subscriptions	profilemenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=subscriptions	my-subscriptions	No
178	My Favorites	profilemenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=favorites	my-favorites	No
173	View Profile	profilemenu	view=user	my-profile	No
174	Edit Profile	profilemenu	view=user&layout=edit	edit-profile	No
151	Categories	hiddenmenu	view=category&layout=list&catid=0	category	No
153	Start New Topic	hiddenmenu	view=topic&layout=create	new-topic	No
154	No Replies	kunenamenu	view=topics&mode=noreplies	forums/noreplies	No
155	My Topics	kunenamenu	view=topics&layout=user&mode=default	forums/mylatest	No
157	Help	kunenamenu	view=misc	forums/help	No

Joomla default template details : iReview3 | author: ClickFWD LLC | version: 3.3.0 | creationdate: June 2015

Kunena default template details : NTS KMaterial | author: Nice Theme Store | version: 4.0.0 | creationdate: 2015-11-18

Kunena version detailed: Kunena 4.0.10 | 2016-02-18 [ Villavicencio ]
| Kunena detailed configuration:

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Kunena config settings:
board_offline	0
enablerss	1
threads_per_page	10
messages_per_page	10
messages_per_page_search	10
showhistory	1
historylimit	10
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template	nts_kmaterial
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trimlongurlsback	10
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rss_excluded_categories
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imagequality	50
thumbheight	32
thumbwidth	32
hideuserprofileinfo	put_empty
boxghostmessage	0
userdeletetmessage	0
latestcategory_in	1
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file_upload
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autolink	1
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twitter_consumer_key
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allow_change_subject	1
max_links	6

| Kunena integration settings:

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Kunena - AlphaUserPoints Disabled
Kunena - Community Builder Disabled
Kunena - Gravatar Disabled
Kunena - JomSocial Disabled
Kunena - Joomla Enabled: access=1 login=1
Kunena - Kunena Enabled: avatar=1 profile=1
Kunena - UddeIM Enabled: private=1

| Joomla! detailed language files installed:

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Joomla! languages installed:
en-GB	English (en-GB)

Third-party components: UddeIM 3.6

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: None

Modules: Kunena Latest 3.1.2.1 | Kunena Stats 3.1.2 | Kunena Search 3.1.2

Try the following (I hope that it helps):
1. Select in the kunena SEO configuration "Direct Component Access = Yes"
2. Repair your kunena menu items

You've 17 kunena menu items, but only 3 are correctly ( see here ). Only if no 404 errors occur, select again "Direct Component Access = No"

Thanks Rich. I enabled Direct Component Access and the 404 is now gone--I can access all categories and subcategories, but without the SEF URL. Disabling Direct Component Access causes the 404 to return for all categories.

How do I repair menu items? My main menu items are all working fine. I've tried disabling menu items one at a time, and even recreating them, with no luck. I also tried disabling a third party plugin and no change.

ETA: here are my enabled Kunena menu item configurations, could I have created a conflict?:
Main Menu:
Home menu title>>Recent Topics menu item type>>Newest Topics category id
Categories menu title>>Category List menu item type>>Top Level category id
Search menu title>>Search Topics menu item type

Hidden Menu:
Categories menu title>>Category List menu item type>>Top Level category id
Start New Topic menu title>>Create Topic menu item type>>All Categories category id

Only these 3 items in the Kunena menu are correctly. But I think it's better if you create all items new (Backend -> Kunena -> Tools -> Menu Manager -> Restore Kunena Menu).

That worked! Thank you! Any idea what would cause my problem? SEF was working fine last time I tested the site (about a week or so ago)

Wrong menu items do not necessarily make mistakes, but the probability is present. Maybe it was the change from htaccess.txt to .htaccess. But if you want SEO with Apache Web Server then you need the .htaccess
www.kunena.org/docs/en/faq/seo

Looks like everything is working now, thanks again for your help!