Menu-item cart not working

[Margriet]

Like I used to do in Joomla 3, I created a hidden menu-item for the cart view of type Shopping Cart J4 to have a custom url and to be able to assign (or not) modules to this page. To my surprise this is not working in J4.
Joomla 4.3.1 with VM 4.0.20 10849

[jenkinhill]

Hidden menu module display is working OK for me with J4.3.1 & VM 4.0.19.10850  (same as 4.0.20) using Cassiopeia

[Margriet]

Thanks. But what do you mean by hidden menu module? I just made a hidden menu-item like in J3. I've never heard of hidden modules....

[jenkinhill]

Just my quick typing while also chatting in the pub.

I was able to add a module to a cart page that can be accessed using a hidden menu URL, just like with J3.  Does your hidden link access the cart page at all?

[Margriet]

Thanks again. It accesses a cart page when I type in the url, but then I have an empty cart.
Alias for my hidden menu-item is /orderlist but url stays /cart when I access the cart after ordering a product.
To make sure nothing interferes I am testing with demo VM data and Cassiopeia.

[GJC Web Design]

Are forcing either www or no www in your .htaccess?

# match any URL with www and rewrite it to https without the www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://%2%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

[Margriet]

No, no redirect in .htaccess. htaccess.txt from an installation package renamed to .htaccess without changing anything.
But it gets even stranger. To test even further, I really did a fresh installation of Joomla 4.3.1 and installed VM 4.0.20.10849 in it with sample data. When creating the menu items, I find that there is no longer an option for the J4 shopping cart menu item. Only the one from J3 is still there.

[jenkinhill]

The shopping cart link is correct, the text description has not been updated. The J4 dummy link does not show if J4 is used, but will show in J3. Makes no difference, as the dummy J4 menu link was the same except &layout=standard was appended to the URL for development purposes.

[GJC Web Design]

No, no redirect in .htaccess

well you should -- I have seen this cause many cart problems without a forced either www or not

[Margriet]

well you should -- I have seen this cause many cart problems without a forced either www or not

Live site has it, but thanks for your remark.

The shopping cart link is correct, the text description has not been updated. The J4 dummy link does not show if J4 is used, but will show in J3. Makes no difference, as the dummy J4 menu link was the same except &layout=standard was appended to the URL for development purposes.

I now use the J3 link and it works as expected. Might have been something during upgrade process, but I still had the J4 link and that one didn't work. And it's obviously confusing if there's J3 behind a menu item when your site is running J4.