Updating Joomla 3.6.5 to Joomla 3.8.2

All urls on Home page are wrong url when home is a featured articles menu

URL is now
http://www.joomla.com/?view=article&id=2222:actual-title-then

instead of http://www.joomla.com/category/actual-title-then

Please ask help on the forums - Migrating and Upgrading to Joomla! 3.x. This repository concerns in first Place Joomla coding.

franz-wohlkoenig your link sugest that joomla updating is very risky job

Well, in fact, it is a real 'modern' routing known issue for which no solution has been provided yet when clicking on th title of an article displayed in a featured menu item.

Below links in multilang, but same on monolanguage site
Legacy: /index.php/en/2-category-all/3-article-all
Modern: index.php/en/?view=article&id=3:article-all

To solve it and get a nice readable url, one has to create a "hidden" menu item to the category or categories.
Example of result in "modern" routing:
index.php/en/category-list/article-all

how to create this "hidden" menu item to the category or categories ?

Then do not display in menu

But @franz-wohlkoenig is right. This is a question to ask in forums as it is a known issue.

URL was
http://www.joomla.com/category/2222-actual-title-then
after update to Joomla 3.8.2 URL was
http://www.joomla.com/?view=article&id=2222:actual-title-then
URL is now
http://www.joomla.com/category-list/category/actual-title-then
is this the best we can get form joomla now?
instead of http://www.joomla.com/category/actual-title-then

But @infograf768 I still think this isssue should be solved as a bug fix for 3.8.3 couse no solution has been provided yet in the forums

Improvements are in PRs, Joomla needs only volunteers/testers who can test it.
After two human success test, the improvement can go as ready to commit (RTC)

If you have a little time please test #18429
This is not directly related to your issue but is part of complex PR that will solve you problem.

It is a part of Deterministic version of URL routing. This one is not yet ready to be merged. I have to split it to more simpler PRs and update description.

Off course you can test it out and give a feedback.

@csthomas on homepage I see this:
URL was
http://www.joomla.com/category/2222-actual-title-then
after update to Joomla 3.8.2 URL was
http://www.joomla.com/?view=article&id=2222:actual-title-then
URL is now
http://www.joomla.com/category-list/category/actual-title-then
is this the best we can get form joomla now?
instead of http://www.joomla.com/category/actual-title-then

but if I write in the browser http://www.joomla.com/category/actual-title-then it displays that article corect, but if I go to homepage it adds and displays http://www.joomla.com/category-list/category/actual-title-then

This conversation should be on forum.

You do not need category-list menu item for categories view.
You need a published menu item for mentioned category 'category' and probably for all your categories as well.
As I see you remove IDs from URLs.

The modern routing does not work correctly for articles if they do not have menu item (at least one) for own or parent category. The simple solution is to add menu for root category-list as @infograf768 mentioned but that change your URL.

If you still has a problem please open a topic on forum and paste a screen-shot of you menu list/structure from backend.

Set to "closed" on behalf of @franz-wohlkoenig by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/18771

closed as stated above.

@franz-wohlkoenig this issue with Joomla 3.8 URLs is not solved

The modern routing does not work correctly for articles even if they do have menu item for own or parent category

The problem is with FEATURED articles? what category you sugest to use for them if you think the issue is solved ?

on homepage I see this:
URL was
http://www.joomla.com/category/2222-actual-title-then
after update to Joomla 3.8.2 URL was
http://www.joomla.com/?view=article&id=2222:actual-title-then
URL is now
http://www.joomla.com/category-list/category/actual-title-then
is this the best we can get form joomla now?
instead of http://www.joomla.com/category/actual-title-then

but if I write in the browser http://www.joomla.com/category/actual-title-then it displays that article corect, but if I go to homepage it adds and displays http://www.joomla.com/category-list/category/actual-title-then

@franz-wohlkoenig is there a documentation how to setup Joomla 3,8,2 that on home page joomla could provide correct urls for featured articles?

URL is now
http://www.joomla.com/category-list/category-one/actual-title-then
http://www.joomla.com/category-list/category-two/actual-title-then-here
is this the best we can get form joomla now?
instead of http://www.joomla.com/category-one/actual-title-then
http://www.joomla.com/category-two/actual-title-then-here

simply make the home menu item a category blog menu item and select the root category as the category.

simply make the home menu item a category blog menu item and select the root category as the category.

There is no way to choose a Root Category in the category blog menu item. One can only choose a specific category, would it be a parent or not.

I am understanding all. Is a similar issue to me also. I need an URL like
http://domain/category/article in a simple mode, just like WordPress does (if an article has a category, this category is shown in the URL, but else, only shows the article name in the URL). The question is why Joomla router doesn't build the URL in this mode.

An article is attached to a category. The logic router should build the URL as the previous one, but instead the URL sometimes are build as http://domain/article if the article is called from menu.

@infograf768 "root category" means any category that is at first level and has nested categories.

@neoacevedo Can you please open a new Issue as Comments on closed Issues didn't get much Notice, thanks.