Hi there.
Our newspaper uses Flexicontent for just one part of our content management to manage user-submitted press releases, but the rest of our content is managed by the Joomla core.
Yesterday, apparently out of the blue, a small number of articles not normally managed by Flexi, started redirecting to a Flexicontent URL. This results in a 403 error, referring to mis-categorized content). We have checked the content and it appears to be set up the same as working articles.
I have seen similar problems mentioned in the forums, but I was not able to figure out the solution and more importantly, I was not able to understand what was happening to cause this redirect, so I can prevent/fix this easily if it ever happens again and train staff on what to look for or what to avoid.
Sidenote: This coincided with one of our editors not being able to access the core J! Article Manager in a brand new install of W7/IE. He was instead rerouted to the Flexi dashboard (which had never happened to him in 5 or so years with Joomla) We don't believe he would have changed anything (or even poked around or tried to use anything) in Flexi. It might also be notable, that we did an install of Firefox on his machine and the behavior he was seeing stopped. That is, he was able to go right to the core article manager and post articles as he normally would.
But for some reason, perhaps related, perhaps not, some number of articles are still giving us 403 errors when they redirect to the Flexi URL.
It appears that Flexi "took over" management of those articles at some point for some reason.
And NOTE: Changing the alias of the article causes them to work (as I think would be expected).
For reference, our site:
RCReader.com
is running
Joomla! 1.5.11
FLEXIcontent version 1.5.3c
Flexiaccess 1.0.5
The article that redirects 403s:
www.rcreader.com/index.php?optio
... s&id=22542
(the intended URL:
www.rcreader.com/movies/tour-of-doody-lucky-one/
)
The working article with a new alias:
www.rcreader.com/movies/tour-of-doody-luckyone/
