By Brandon Scivolette on Thursday, 27 October 2016
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Good Morning,

I am working on configurations and setup for EB and I've come across an interesting problem with the menu alias of an Easy Blog menu item. I created an Easy Blog menu item (single category) and run into the issue desribed below in my example.

Example:
Let's assume the category name is "Football". When creating the category menu item I named the menu alias 'football'. So the menu item is mysite.com/football. However, when any blog post is clicked on, from within that view, it looks like mysite.com/football/football/my-blog-post. Of course, the URL should be: mysite.com/football/my-blog-post

I understand how this is happening, since the menu item alias is separate from Easy Blog, but it obviously is incorrect. I want to be able to create an Easy Blog menu item that points to the correct path, so that the blogs under that article have the correct URL's.
Hi Brandon,

Seems like I cannot access your backend even-though I'm using https to access the page http://screencast.com/t/hZ6lSzjrBr
Can you please advise?
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Friday, 28 October 2016 10:35
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Yes, unfortunately our developers have the production server locked up pretty tight. Our proprietary software is on the server as well, so they are stringent with access.

Is there any insight you can provide without accessing the site? I don't have EB live yet, either, so it's not something that can be seen from the front end. Based on the problem I described, is there anything that I might be overlooking in terms of how to setup EB menu items? As opposed to normal Joomla menu items, of course.
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Friday, 28 October 2016 22:16
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Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

I've tested in my locally, it seems work fine.

Can you check my attached screenshot below and configure the same setting into your site and see how it goes?
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Saturday, 29 October 2016 11:55
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Good Morning,

Thank you for the response. The only difference in my SEO settings is that I am using the "Simple Category" URL format, not "Simple" per your screenshot. Ideally, I'd like to keep the simple category format, but only if I can do that without creating the issues I have been experiencing. Is that possible?

Also, is it possible that part of my problem is because I have the Joomla home/index set to be the Easy Blog frontpage (EasyBlog » (Posts) Frontpage » (Posts) Frontpage)? Should I instead set it to an internal Joomla page, and then load EB modules instead of having the primary be an EB menu item?
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Monday, 31 October 2016 23:18
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I've noticed a lot of the issues in the forum talk about their menu setup and having a /blog menu item. I don't have that. The root is the blog, and the EB FrontPage view is my menu item for home. As opposed to being mysite.com/blog the blog is essentially just mysite.com. is that part of the problem I am having?
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Tuesday, 01 November 2016 11:04
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Hi Brandon,

I'm not quite get what you want to achieve here
Kindly find my response to your inquiries below:
Ideally, I'd like to keep the simple category format, but only if I can do that without creating the issues I have been experiencing. Is that possible?

It is not possible, If you want to make your url as http://yoursite/football/blog-post you need to use the simple url format
refer this: http://screencast.com/t/p6UBqMSg717Q

2. As opposed to being http://mysite.com/blog the blog is essentially just mysite.com. is that part of the problem I am having?

-> This is not part of the problem, you don't have the /blog append in your site url as you access EasyBlog because you've already set the (EasyBlog » (Posts) Frontpage » (Posts) Frontpage) menu as default menu. If you want to have the /blog append you must set another menu item to be default page
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Tuesday, 01 November 2016 13:58
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