I did the update to Joomla 4.4.4 in the Admin. It went fast and completed without errors. When I went to the Home Page, everything was gone except the top menu. The top menu links work (except the Home link). So I went into Admin to check the Home page article. It had the yellow star for Featured. I never featured it. Thinking that could be the problem, I turned the featured off and went back to the website and there was the Home page! BUT, if I refreshed or left the Home page, the problem returned. So then I featured it back, and again, same problem. The Home page appeared, then disappeared. As long as I feature and un-feature, I can get a glimpse of the home page.
Then I noticed something else. The Home page URL had index.php added to it. That was never there before. In researching how to solve this problem, I came across something where I can remove index.php from all the pages, but I don't want to do that. I have too many links both inside and outside of Joomla that would need to be changed. I just want my Home page back. I don't care if it adds index.php to the damn URL.
My home page alias is home, so I decided to change it to index to see if that would work. It didn't, so I put it back to home. The website is https://acquisitiongames.com.
I'm clueless. I have limited knowledge about this type of thing. I'm on a shared hosting plan and I have to fumble through everything to get things to work. The php upgrade was a huge problem for me and I ended up having to just rebuild the entire site on Joomla 4.? because I couldn't get the database to update. Everything was working beautifully until I did the latest upgrade to 4.4.4.
I've thought about reinstalling the Joomla core files, but I have no confidence that is going to help and I worry it will only make things worse. I also rebuilt another Joomla site, but I used 5.0 for that one. I probably should have used 5.0 for this one too, but I was hesitant and used Joomla 4 thinking it would eventually update me to 5. Right now I'm not sure if upgrading to 5 would help, and since there is no way to update to 5 in admin, I would like to avoid that headache.
I need help. I know just enough to wipe out the entire website and rebuild it again. That seems like a ridiculous idea just to fix the home page, so I'm hoping someone can give me an easier fix.
After previewing this post before I submit it, I went back to the website. Apparently it isn't just my home page. There are other pages doing the same thing, such as the Customer Feedback page, which hasn't been "Featured" and it has always included index.php in the URL.
Then I noticed something else. The Home page URL had index.php added to it. That was never there before. In researching how to solve this problem, I came across something where I can remove index.php from all the pages, but I don't want to do that. I have too many links both inside and outside of Joomla that would need to be changed. I just want my Home page back. I don't care if it adds index.php to the damn URL.
My home page alias is home, so I decided to change it to index to see if that would work. It didn't, so I put it back to home. The website is https://acquisitiongames.com.
I'm clueless. I have limited knowledge about this type of thing. I'm on a shared hosting plan and I have to fumble through everything to get things to work. The php upgrade was a huge problem for me and I ended up having to just rebuild the entire site on Joomla 4.? because I couldn't get the database to update. Everything was working beautifully until I did the latest upgrade to 4.4.4.
I've thought about reinstalling the Joomla core files, but I have no confidence that is going to help and I worry it will only make things worse. I also rebuilt another Joomla site, but I used 5.0 for that one. I probably should have used 5.0 for this one too, but I was hesitant and used Joomla 4 thinking it would eventually update me to 5. Right now I'm not sure if upgrading to 5 would help, and since there is no way to update to 5 in admin, I would like to avoid that headache.
I need help. I know just enough to wipe out the entire website and rebuild it again. That seems like a ridiculous idea just to fix the home page, so I'm hoping someone can give me an easier fix.
After previewing this post before I submit it, I went back to the website. Apparently it isn't just my home page. There are other pages doing the same thing, such as the Customer Feedback page, which hasn't been "Featured" and it has always included index.php in the URL.
Statistics: Posted by megacquire — Mon May 27, 2024 5:06 am