Joomla home looses sef alias for component

Question

I am developing a component for joomla 1.7/2.5 with a few modules that generate sef links to the component with different views. Everything is shiny and fine, except for the home page of the site so http: //localhost/en/

When I'm on the home page all my component links change to http: //localhost/en/component/componentname/category/2032 wheres if I use this link: http: //localhost/en/whateverhere the same links are like they should be http: //localhost/en/component_menu_alias/category/2032

no content and no menu has the alias "whateverhere" so I'm confused as to how joomla knows the right alias when it's on whateverhere and not when it's on the home http: //localhost/en/

Any ideas as of what is going wrong here?

P.S.: the page is multy lingual.

Answer 1

Am soon to face that challenge myself, and have Supporting SEF URLs in your component bookmarked. Let me know if it works for you.