Base url breaks relative URLS

Question

I have a website with Joomla, for example this one:

http://polishwords.com.pl/ksiazki/ksiazka/lihakw

And it has base set to:

http://polishwords.com.pl/ksiazki/ksiazka/lihakw

And on top and left i have menus created in Joomla that have relative urls like:

/edukacja

And it seems that crawlers come to http://polishwords.com.pl/ksiazki/ksiazka/lihakw

and crawl the relative path using the base url and get:

http://polishwords.com.pl/ksiazki/ksiazka/lihakwedukacja

And when they go there base url changes to

http://polishwords.com.pl/ksiazki/ksiazka/lihakwedukacja

And crawler goes to:

http://polishwords.com.pl/ksiazki/ksiazka/lihakwedukacjaedukacja

And so on.

So base url combined with related links to menu create a loop using standard Joomla.

I dont use any exts for SEF, and i dont want to. I use Joomla 1.7.5.

Am i doing something wrong? Can you please tell me how to fix it?

Answer 1

1. Do not use base href
2. Always use only absolute paths in your HTML

These 2 simple rules will solve every possible error related to links in HTML

relative urls like: /edukacja

As a matter of fact, it's absolute path, but wrong one. You need to make your Joomla to make this path /ksiazki/ksiazka/lihakw/edukacja which would be a proper absolute path

Answer 2

Enable the system SEF plugin, it could be part of the solution.

Also, try updating to J2.5.9, it fixed several similar (but not identical) issues for me.