Joomla URL-Rewrite

Question

I've got a little strange behavior from a joomla website (2.5) with the url rewriting.

Here is my situation:

Two identical Websites. One runs with joomla 1.5, the other with joomla 2.5. Both on a IIS 7. There is a external plugin (build by own) which posts a list of article-links on both joomla. Some kind of a "latest news" module on the homepage. This plugin posts link with a url like this:
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2518&Itemid=97&lang=de

This link is working, if the URL-rewrite is switched off in joomla back-end. Now when I switch on the url-rewriting. The links look like these:

Joomla 1.5
http://example.com/de/category/news/2518.html (link does work!)

Joomla 2.5
http://example.com/de/category/news.html?id=2518 (link does not work! 404)

It seems there is a difference between those joomla versions. Can anyone give me a hint to solve this problem with joomla 2.5? thank you very much.

Answer 1

I've found a solution. Now I build my links in the plugin with JRoute:

$link = JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=$id&catid=$catid:$catalias&Itemid=$itemid");