Very weird and very serious Navigation issue

alright now you have to answer some questions in order for us to know what caused the problem

1-  did you upgrade your site lately i mean just before the problem has happened ??!

2- did you do any modification to your site .. or installed any modules ... ?

3- did you try to clear your cash manually through deleting the cash folder contents ??? !

so here is som steps you might want to try ... go to your administration panel and from the home page choose clear all for cash ..

tell us what happens with you  ...

all the best

nazzal

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edit :-

lool this is just a simple problem...

you seem to have edited the data base table "sys_menu_bottom" and messed them up ..

or you have put the links manually in the footer template .. to fix this here is some steps

go to phpmyadmin and select your data base ..

click over the sys_menu_bottom table and see the Link column ...

it should look like this :

"aboutus.php"

so you should just see the name of the file without any thing before or after ...

if all of the files are the same then check your _sub_footer.html file

ir should look something like this

<bx_injection:injection_content_after />
<div class="clear_both"></div>       
<bx_injection:banner_bottom />
<!-- end of body -->
</div>
 <bx_injection:injection_between_content_footer />
__boonex_footers__
<div class="bottomCopyright" style="width: __main_div_width__">
<bx_injection:injection_footer_before />
        <div class="bottomLinks">
            __bottom_links__
        </div>
        <div class="bottomCpr">__copyright__</div>
        <bx_injection:injection_footer_after />
        <div class="clear_both"></div>
    </div>

<bx_include_auto:_footer.html />

if not thn back it up and replace it's contents with this one ...

if none of these is true then you need to tell us more about the modifications you've been doing ...

Hi Nazzal, many thanks for taking the time to reply.

I asked myself exactly the same questions and I'm afraid I have no idea, which change caused this to happen.

I've installed LOTS of modules and made SOME changes to files.   I'm kicking myself now because I didn't keep an accurate record of what changes I made to, which files.

As was hoping that somebody else would have seen the same issue or at least have an idea of where I could look.

I've cleared the cache several times from the admin menu.  I haven't manually cleared the cache using FTP for at least a few weeks.

Mark

please see the edit

Thanks again for your reply Nazzal, I really appreciate it.

OK, maybe I should have explained the problem in more depth.  It's not just the footer links, which have the current URL prefixed, it's also links like Categories.

For instance, if you look here:

http://www.connectmining.com/m/events/home/

Hover over, or click one of the Categories on the left-hand side, like the Conference category for instance.

You can see that resulting link is this:

http://www.connectmining.com/m/events/home/m/events/browse/category/Conference

And it's not just for the Events module.  It's for lots of them.

I haven't edit the sys_menu_bottom table or the _sub_footer.html file

Oh, how I wish this was a simple problem :(

Mark

The problem in in your template. _header.html. There should be a line that looks like this.

<base href="<bx_url_root />" />

That base is set wrong on your site which is the cause of the link problem.

Check your _header.html file for the template and make sure that line is exactly as it should be.

Deano, I don't know if you're a drinking man but if you are, I owe you a very large drink!

Thanks man.  That worked like a dream.

Thanks also to Nazzal.

To anybody else that may be interested, this problem was caused because I originally edited this file using Microsoft Expression Web 4 and that software placed some additional, very much unwanted formatting into the file.

I just edited the file in Notepad as per Deano's suggestion and it all worked.

Thanks again.  I am REALLY greatful.

Mark

If you want a pretty decent FREE IDE with syntax highlighting, try APTANA.

I use it on my linux note book and my mac.

The hardest part is getting the FTP setup.  lol!

Thanks Steve.

I think you may have meant APTANA

 Yeah, I fat fingered that one!  LOL!