category path

Hi Jerome,

Thanks for reaching out. Could you please share a specific example URL (old and new) so we can better understand the issue? I just tested it here and the format with /index.html seems to work fine.

As an alternative, you could also consider removing the .html part altogether by enabling the URL suffix option in Joomla’s Global Configuration—but note that this would affect all site URLs.

Once I have a concrete example from your site, I’ll be able to advise you further.

Best regards,
Lefteris

Hi Jerome,

Thanks for the clarification. Could you please double-check the exact URL pattern you are using? If the word index is not included in the pattern, then it’s expected that the generated URLs won’t contain it.

If you would like your category URLs to end with index.html, please make sure to:

1. Include index in the pattern. For example {categoryPath}/index
2. Ensure that the “Add suffix to URL” option is set to Yes in Joomla’s Global Configuration.

With this setup, you should get URLs ending in index.html and it should work consistently in both the 1.x and 2.x series of Route 66.

Please give this a try and let me know if it resolves the issue.

Best Regards,
Lefteris

Hi Jerome,

Thanks for the details, that helps a lot.

In version 1.x, the “Add suffix to menu links” option worked together with the “Menu links suffix” field, which is why you were able to append /index automatically.

In version 2.x, the “Menu links suffix” option has been removed. That’s why your category URLs changed from:

/my_category/index.html

to:

/my_category.html

If you want to keep the /index.html format in 2.x, you’ll need to include /index directly in your category URL pattern. For example:

{categoryPath}/index

together with “Add suffix to URL” enabled in Joomla Global Configuration.

This will give you the same result as before.

Note that this will not work for menu items. For menu items you need to simply create children items with alias index . 

Please try this setup and let me know if it restores the URLs the way you expect.

Best regards,
Lefteris