Easy File Upload – Redirect/No Response

[Gene]

Good Morning Michael,

I installed your Easy File Upload extension. It installed successfully and I was able to add the module to one of my registered pages. When I select a file and click the upload button, I am redirected to my site’s homepage. No messages are provided and the file is not uploaded. Here is some basic system information…

PHP Built On: Linux gator3076.hostgator.com 3.2.54 #9 SMP Thu Feb 13 08:17:11 CST 2014 x86_64

Database Version: 5.5.33-31.1

Database Collation: utf8_general_ci

PHP Version: 5.3.28

Web Server: Apache

WebServer to PHP Interface: cgi-fcgi

Joomla! Version: Joomla! 3.1.1 Stable [ Ember ] 26-April-2013 14:00 GMT

Joomla! Platform Version: Joomla Platform 12.2.0 Stable [ Neil Armstrong ] 21-September-2012 00:00 GMT

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0; Touch; MDDCJS)

The version of your software that I installed is…

Easy File Uploader Version 2.5

Any assistance you can provide in resolving this issue would be appreciated.

[Michael Gilkes]

@epogreba. Thanks for posting. Is the article specified as a menu item in a Joomla menu?

[Gene]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the quick response. The module is not a menu item. I added the module to a page, which I made public for now. Please feel free to take a look at it. It is in the upper left corner of the page.

http://acsparents.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=123

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

[Michael Gilkes]

@epogreba. Joomla is a menu driven CMS. All webpages in Joomla should be associated with a menu. The menu does not have to be visible. However, any webpage on your Joomla site should be associated with a menu item. Just create another menu apart from the main menu and add the article to it. This will make it work.

[Gene]

Hi Michael,

Just to give you a little of my background, I spent 10 years as a developer before moving into project and department management. Joomla is new to me though, so thank you for your help and patience. The module is associated with a menu. On the menu assignment tab of the module, I have the following setting:

Module Assignment: Only on the pages selected

Menu Selection: Parent info is the only checked menu item.

Is this what you were referring to or is there something else I am missing?

[Gene]

Michael,

As a test, I changed…

Module Assignment: Only on the pages selected

To…

Module Assignment: On all Pages

I tested this on the homepage and it worked successfully. I will play around with this a little more, but is there a specific menu level I need to assign this to?

[Michael Gilkes]

@epogreba. Actually, I was referring to the article that you are displaying. I am not really referring to the menu assignment. I don’t know if you understand what I am saying.

[Gene]

Michael,

You’re right, I am not understanding what you are saying. The link I provided shows the Easy File Uploader module in the upper left side. I added it as a module not an article. Should I have added it in some other way? if the menu assignment is incorrect, can you further define what you mean by assigning it to a menu item?

[Gene]

Okay Michael,

I have taken some additional steps. I created the module “Newsletter” and assigned it to an arbitrary position “ACS_UT1” and set the menu assignment to “On all Pages”.

Next, I created an article called “Utilities” and added the {loadposition ACS_UT1} code to it.

I then created a menu item called “Utilities” and assigned a single article to it called “Utilities”.

All this seems to work well. I login to the front end and go to the “Utilities” menu, where I see the “Utilities” article as well as the Easy File Uploader module, contained within the article. I select a file and click upload and it redirects me to the homepage.

What am I doing wrong? I’m really stuck here. Any assistance you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Gene

[Michael Gilkes]

Hi Gene. Ok. One thing I want you to check for me. Go to your ‘Global Configuration” and check what the setting for “Search Engine Friendly URLs” is. Is it set to “Yes” or “No”? If it is set to “No”, please change it to “Yes”.

[Gene]

Michael,

Thank you so much. That resolved the issue. Consider this CASE CLOSED!

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