Hi,

The installation of CB Facebook connect went well, however the Sign In / Link button only works when the user is on the homepage.

At other times clicking sign in / link followed by "connect" (in the popup) produced a 404 (it seems it is trying to access www.mysite.com/currenturl/index.php).

I use 404SEF but I don't know where to start tracking down the problem. Is it a 404SEF issue, how I have setup the Facebook app or something else?

My site is www.thescubasite.com

Thanks

Post edited by: thetafferboy, at: 2010/04/12 02:03

Post edited by: krileon, at: 2010/04/13 18:30

Looking closer at what's going on, it seems the FBC plugin is simply adding "index.php?bunchofstuff" onto whatever URL the user is currently on.

This of course, work's fine when you're on the homepage, but when you are not on the homepage, SEF404 can't handle it as there is junk in the way.

Seems as if FBC needs to kick back to homepage after the user has hit "connect".

Any ideas?

Okay, I resolved this by editing the source code on the fbconnect plugin.

If anyone wants to know I simply edited the reference to index.php and made it an absolute URL from the homepage.

So now, once you login, you get kicked back to the homepage. Better than nothing, unless anyone has a more refined fix.

I don't know if I was clear: I'm SEFing com_profiler, not the facebook connect plugin specifically, but if I understand correctly (probably not) the Facebook connect works as part of com_profiler, which is part of Community Builder which 404SEF plays very nicely with.

The only way I could disable SEF URLs with Facebook connect (as far as I understand) is to go into "by component" management and disable it for com_profiler, which unfortunately then means I lose SEF urls for account creation, viewing user accounts and various other parts of the site.

Generally, even not thinking about SEO, 404SEF produces much better URLs for users. 404SEF does handle all of the URLs on my site, I don't understand why this is a "not good" thing - can you give an example (from a user/SEO point of view) where I would benefit not using SEF urls? Everything apart from this plugin as functioned correctly up until now.

In reference to specifically what I edited, I edited the plug_cbfacebookconnect/cb.facebookconnect.php and simply replaced *all* references to "index.php/whatever/" to "www.thescubasite.com/index.php/whatever"

Everything seems to be functioning okay, as I said before.

More info on above question on usage/non-usage of SEF URLs would be great and how they can play with com_profiler/fbc

Post edited by: thetafferboy, at: 2010/04/12 17:10

Post edited by: thetafferboy, at: 2010/04/12 17:12