Protostar template doesn't work with component links in SEF

[waveywhite]

In index.php for the protostar template the css and javascript links are relative. With SEF & .htaccess enabled this causes the template to attempt to load these files relative to the current path. These paths map to the component and Joomla tries to map them to a page and outputs HTML instead of the desired CSS file.

To recreate this bug:
Create a new Joomla install with Protostar as default template and no content

1. Enable SEF links via the global settings & copy htaccess.txt to .htaccess in web root
2. Create a new article in the admin site (id should be 1)
3. Manually enter the article name via the url siteurl/component/content/article/1

solution: prepend these with JUri::base calls to build the proper CSS and javascript paths.

-David.

[Bakual]

I can't reproduce this here.
The files are loaded relative to the site root, starting with a slash. So the browser should ignore the path and call the files from the proper place.

Can you be more specific with which enviroment you're testing this?

[Fedik]

@waveywhite I suppose, you have disabled a "System - SEF" plugin, right? 😄

[waveywhite]

I have disabled the SEF plugin, yes. I guess that must be a factor as well! Thanks, Fedik.

I need to do that for performance reasons (the SEF plugin is lousy with embeded SVGs). Still, this problem doesn't happen in Beez and Protostar isn't following recommended practice (http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_basic_Joomla!_template) so I think it's still a bug.

To reproduce bug:

1. Enable SEF links via the global settings & copy htaccess.txt to .htaccess in web root
2. Create a new article in the admin site (id should be 1)
3. Disable SEF plugin
4. Manually enter the article name via the url siteurl/component/content/article/1

The file is templates/protostar/index.php. The line numbers in question are 41 and 43. The environment is Ubuntu 14.04 with Apache 2.4.7

[dgrammatiko]

Can you replace $this->baseurl with JUri::base() and if it works then make a PR?

[waveywhite]

Hi dgt41. Who would you like to do this?

Either this->baseurl or JUri::base() should work, a the moment neither is in place. Which is preferable?

[Bakual]

Can you create a Pull Request then? See http://docs.joomla.org/Using_the_Github_UI_to_Make_Pull_Requests for how to do it.

If you do, you will get proper credits for doing it 😄

[Bakual]

Either this->baseurl or JUri::base() should work, a the moment neither is in place. Which is preferable?

In theory, $this->baseurl should be a bit faster, so I'd use that.

[jissues-bot]

Set to "closed" on behalf of @brianteeman by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/5081