upgrade error to 3.6.0

[sergobrovar]

Hello
After updating virtualmart to 3.6.0, an error appeared in the product card when changing the language: Attention
404 - The requested product does not exist! And there is a transition to the category page of this product.
You can look at the attached files. I use Joomla 3.9.11 / PHP version 7.3.6. Help solve this, please

[GJC Web Design]

404 - The requested product does not exist! And there is a transition to the category page of this product.

this is the standard workflow if u have "Enable VirtueMart 404 error handling" selected and VM can't find the product
was this selected before?
Are the products translated?
To debug switch this setting off and also look at the non sef urls..
Does it find it with SEF off?
Have you a fallback language selected?
And of course did it work before and upgraded from what version?

[sergobrovar]

404 - The requested product does not exist! And there is a transition to the category page of this product.

this is the standard workflow if u have "Enable VirtueMart 404 error handling" selected and VM can't find the product
was this selected before?
Are the products translated?
To debug switch this setting off and also look at the non sef urls..
Does it find it with SEF off?
Have you a fallback language selected?
And of course did it work before and upgraded from what version?

1) Description of products translated
2) disabling 404 errors in VirtueMart leads to page 404 when changing the language
3) Disabling SEF for cart links does not produce any result
4) Three languages are installed: English, Russian, Ukrainian (default). Store language selected Ukrainian

[sergobrovar]

404 - The requested product does not exist! And there is a transition to the category page of this product.

And of course did it work before and upgraded from what version?

Previous version of virtemart 3.4.2

[sergobrovar]

Found that when switching the language the alias of the product does not change: virtemart does not see the translated product. Moreover, the category translates correctly. No language translation of products.

[jjk]

When I look at a Russian product description on your website and switch to Ukrainian, it goes to the Ukrainian category view. When I select the same product there, it correctly shows the Ukrainian description, despite the error message "404 The requested product does not exist". Note that the core VirtueMart doesn't associate languages on the product level. It goes back to the parent category for which it finds a menu item.

However, the Firefox Inspector, shows the following error:

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The stylesheet http://site4.a-store.kyiv.ua/ua/ was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css".
I guess this is a template issue.

[sergobrovar]

When I look at a Russian product description on your website and switch to Ukrainian, it goes to the Ukrainian category view. When I select the same product there, it correctly shows the Ukrainian description, despite the error message "404 The requested product does not exist". Note that the core VirtueMart doesn't associate languages on the product level. It goes back to the parent category for which it finds a menu item.

However, the Firefox Inspector, shows the following error:

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The stylesheet http://site4.a-store.kyiv.ua/ua/ was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css".
I guess this is a template issue.

Thanks, I'll try to figure it out

[Milbo]

I had this myself and was surprised but the reason in my case was simple.

There is the rule in vm, that the mainlanguage must be filled! In my case I was testing a german/english shop, shop language german, but I used the english language in the backend. When I created a new product the language was filled into the english tables, but the german ones were the default. Maybe you have the same problem?

[sergobrovar]

I had this myself and was surprised but the reason in my case was simple.

There is the rule in vm, that the mainlanguage must be filled! In my case I was testing a german/english shop, shop language german, but I used the english language in the backend. When I created a new product the language was filled into the english tables, but the german ones were the default. Maybe you have the same problem?

I tried to change the language backend - the same result. Created a new product - the same result. But virtemart 3.4.2 worked correctly. I will try to restore the backup from 3.4.2.

[jjk]

Two more ideas:
Does the error message disappear if you set 'Add Suffix to URL' to "No" in the Joomla configuration > SEO settings?
Do you have an htaccess.txt file renamed to .htaccess in your root folder?

[Milbo]

There is the rule in vm, that the mainlanguage must be filled!

I tried to change the language backend - the same result. Created a new product - the same result. But virtemart 3.4.2 worked correctly. I will try to restore the backup from 3.4.2.

In my described case it does not help just to change the VM editing language in the VM backend. You must be sure that the main language is filled. So when you change the language in the BE per dropdown, the product name should be there. But actually, this behaviour is not new, so when you say it works in vm3.4.2 it must be something else.

[sergobrovar]

Two more ideas:
Does the error message disappear if you set 'Add Suffix to URL' to "No" in the Joomla configuration > SEO settings?
Do you have an htaccess.txt file renamed to .htaccess in your root folder?

"Add suffix to URL" is set to "No" in the Joomla configuration> SEO settings - an error still appears.
And yes, the htaccess.txt file is renamed to .htaccess in the root folder.

[sergobrovar]

So, I returned to the version of virtuemart 3.4.2 - everything works correctly. I will stay with this version for now.

[diri]

IMHO it would be much better to have capability to choose (assign) language during editing data. Would make a multilingual shop much easier to handle especially when there are relativ small changes only.

I had this myself and was surprised but the reason in my case was simple.

There is the rule in vm, that the mainlanguage must be filled! In my case I was testing a german/english shop, shop language german, but I used the english language in the backend. When I created a new product the language was filled into the english tables, but the german ones were the default. Maybe you have the same problem?

[Milbo]

IMHO it would be much better to have capability to choose (assign) language during editing data. Would make a multilingual shop much easier to handle especially when there are relativ small changes only.

Isnt it that way? It is that way. Just that you must select it before entering the data, not after. AND your joomla language is the default, of course. The reason is, that you can change your default language and check the just one language of a store without changing the language all the time opening a product.