Trouble getting products to show on site

I'm a noob. I created several products and followed the instructions <a href=" www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...splay-front-end.html ">here on "Listing of products with a menu."

I followed all the instructions and then checked my website to see how well it worked. Instead, it gave me a HTTP 404 - Page Not Found.

What am I doing wrong?

Hi,

That can happen if you don't configure properly the SEF in joomla. Actually no other links should work on your front end.
Here is a tutorial on how to setup properly SEF for Joomla:
docs.joomla.org/Enabling_Search_Engine_F...(SEF)_URLs_on_Apache

I don't recognize that to be the problem, as everything else on my site works except the store.
I tried the "solution" in the link you gave, and it caused all the links on my site to not work, which confirms to me that the problem isn't what you've suggested.

Has anyone dealt with this issue where only the link to products doesn't work?

So what are the links ?
If you deactivate the SEF, does it work ?

excellent. disabling it all seems to have done the trick. thanks.