Thread

Hi,

I am working through Ryan Ireland’s EE tutorials creating the Engine City News Site, although this question should not be tied to the tutorials. The site is here, below my main site: Newspaper Tutorial Site

The problem is, setting up the main navigation, when I click on the links multiple times the url just lengthens and lengthens, until I get this “Error: The URL contains too many segments.”

In my embed Masthead template I have this code:

<ul>
            <li><a href="http://{site_url}class=current">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://index.php/news_articles/page/category/newsclass=current">News</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://index.php/news_articles/page/category/sportsclass=current">Sports</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://index.php/news_articles/page/category/politicsclass=current">Politics</a></li>
                    <li><a href="http://">Obits</a></li>
                </ul>

Now also, I went through days of trying to get index.php out of my URL to no avail (god I wish that was easier), and so I added it to the paths as you can see. I deleted the .httpaccess file off of my server, disabled the LG .htaccess Generator extension thinking they might be behind the trouble.

Should I be going about my paths differently above or something else?

Thanks for any help,
Pete

Hi pychap,

Hard-coding index.php in your templates is not recommended. Use {site_url} and {path=''} where appropriate.

For your category links, take a look at this discussion. Does that help?

Yes, the {path=''} fixed it!

<ul>
            <li><a href="http://{site_url}class=current">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://{path=news_articles/page/category/news}class=current">News</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://{path=news_articles/page/category/sports}class=current">Sports</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://{path=news_articles/page/category/politics}class=current">Politics</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://">Obits</a></li>
    </ul>

Thank you!
Pete

Glad Brandon was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.