HikaShop Content Module link incosistency

-- HikaShop version -- : 3.0.1
-- Joomla version -- : 3.7.0

Hi,

I am configuring Hikashop on Joomla 3.7.0 with "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use URL Rewriting" options enabled.

Overall everything is working as expected. Product URLs look like this: domain.com/category1_alias/category2_alias/product_alias.
The only problem I am having is with "HikaShop Content Module". When this module is assigned to a page containing Hikashop component, URLs in the module are formatted as described above. But if I add the same module to any other page (for example home page of the site) all product links in the module contain /component/hikashop/ instead of /category1_alias/category2_alias/

I just wonder if this is an expected behavior.

My SEF configuration is attached.

Thanks.
Best regards,
B.G.

You have "Use Canonical URL if specified" in your settings. Do you actually have canonical URLs loaded for your products? If not, test it with a few canonical URLs set in your products, and see if you get the same results after clearing the cache.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it had opposite effect. Without fixing content module it introduced additional links with /component/hikashop/ in the places where I did not have them before. Had to roll back the change and remove all canonical URLs from products table in database.

Hi,

This means that you didn't select a HikaShop menu item in the "menu" setting of your module and thus the system uses the current menu item, and when the current menu item is not a Hikashop menu, Joomla's SEF system has to use component/hikashop instead of the alias of the menu item so that the link can still work.

Thanks Nicolas! You are right, the home page does not contain Hikashop menu that's why the links have /component/hikashop/