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Answered Wayfinder & Friendly URLs: Not linking properly.

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    jeffsydor Reply #1, 6 years, 5 months ago
    I've hit a wall. I copied exactly what I'm doing on another installation, which works, but the menu isn't working properly on my local installation.

    I'm building my primary menu and when I preview the site, everything links to a subdirectory of the previous page (i.e. www.yoursite.com/contact, then www.yoursite.com/contact/about. Instead of www.yoursite.com/about). This is what I have for my main menu:

    				<nav id="nav">
					[[Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=`1` &rowTpl=`mainMenuItemTpl` &outerTpl=`mainMenuTpl`]]
				</nav>


    rowTpl:
    					<li [[+wf.id]]>
					    <a href="[[+wf.link]]" class="skel-layers" title="[[+wf.title]]" [[+wf.attributes]]>
					        <span class="icon [[+fontAwesomeIcon]]">[[+wf.linktext]]</span>
			            </a>[[+wf.wrapper]]
	                </li>


    outerTpl:
    <ul>
[[+wf.wrapper]]
</ul>


    I have friendly urls enabled and each resource checked off as a "container" to remove the .html extension.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks in advance.

    This question has been answered by BobRay. See the first response.

    [ed. note: jeffsydor last edited this post 6 years, 5 months ago.]
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      BobRay Reply #2, 6 years, 5 months ago
      I'm not completely clear on what the problem is, but it sounds like you may need to turn off the use_alias_path System Setting, then click on Manage -> Clear Cache -> Refresh URIs.

      Also, make sure you have this tag (with the exclamation point) in the head section of all Templates:

      <base href="[[!++site_url]]" />


      If the site is in a subdirectory, you often have to include the subdirectory in the RewriteBase line of .htaccess for a localhost install. Make sure it ends with a slash.
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        jeffsydor Reply #3, 6 years, 5 months ago
        It was the base link. I completely forgot about that.

        Thank you!
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          BobRay Reply #4, 6 years, 5 months ago
          I'm glad I could help. smiley
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