Error 404: when clicking on "add to cart" button

Hi Matt,

Your problem seems to be related to a SEF issue. How did you set it up ? Do you use some kind of extension for it ?

Hm, you mean SEO configuration (see attached screenshot)?

Well, the point is that I didn't change anything in these settings the last days. Thus it worked well with these settings until I did some changes (which of course - shame on me - I can't retrace anymore) apparently in the shop content module (?) or somewhere else.

Could be that it has something to do with the "Associated products listing for categories listing menus" (see attached file)?

M.


[P.S.: If you are interested resp. if this problem is of interest for Hikashop development, feel free to check by yourself. I can provide you with a login via PM.]

Addendum: It works again, if I turn off the option "search engine friendly URLs" - strange.

So it's really related to SEF. Maybe you could try to enable mod_rewrite ?
There is a new little doc which explains how to set it up there: docs.joomla.org/SEF_URLs_in_Joomla!_1.5

Ok thx, I will give it a try although I don't see too much of a relation to SEF as it worked well with the old settings for quite some time.

Regards, M.

I have had this problem on/off on one dev system, but worked fine on live.
Just had this problem occur on another dev system which has been Ok until now.
So decided time for a bit of debug tracing was needed - this is what I found....

$_SERVER /* string */ = /XXXXXXXX/XXXX/XXXX_joomla/index.php/shop/checkout/notice/tmpl-component
$_SERVER /* string */ = /shop/checkout/notice/tmpl-component

$_REQUEST /* string */ = 335
$_REQUEST /* string */ = com_hikashop
$_REQUEST /* string */ = notice
$_REQUEST /* string */ = component

In router.php parse()
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$this->_mode /* string */ = 1 (=== JROUTER_MODE_SEF)
$uri->_path /* string */ = shop/checkout/notice/tmpl-component

In router.php _parseSefRoute()
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$route /* string */ = shop/checkout/notice/tmpl-component

Hikashop parse route call
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hikashopParseRoute(array('notice', 'component'))

hikashop.php line 37
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File does not exist: HIKASHOP_CONTROLLER.'notice.php'

Turns out the problem is due to a Checkout menu item underneath a shop menu item as show in the attached screenshot. Disabling the checkout menu item solves the porblem.

Changing the alias for the C heckout menu item to checkoutmain solved the problem.
See attached screenshot.

Ah yes, the problem is a SEF alias conflict because joomla translates the notice popup to the same URL as this menu so what it unSEF it for processing, it tries to use the menu itemid which in turns removes the "checkout" parameter at the beginning of the URL. That, in turns makes the hikashop system believe that the controller is the next parameter "notice" instead of using it as the task of the checkout controller. So, finally, when it tries to load the controller, it doesn't find it since it's not the good one.
That's a tricky one !
Thanks for posting the solution.