OJS 2.4.8 to 2.4.8-1 is a small set of fixes and enhancements. If you have performed an upgrade on your own previously, it will be a minor task. If you are not familiar with the upgrade process, it will take some extra time.
Did you do the upgrade from 2.4.7 to 2.4.8 yourself?
I have added that line to the Navbar file, What changes should expect please?
No no, I just installed fresh with 2.4.8, we just moved to OJS system, This is a newly established university journal. So I have not done any upgrading before,
If you change line 17 of templates/common/navbar.tpl from:
<li id="userHome"><a href="{url journal="index" page="user"}">{translate key="navigation.userHome"}</a></li>
to
<li id="userHome"><a href="{url page="user"}">{translate key="navigation.userHome"}</a></li>
when you click on the “User Home” link in the main navigation bar, instead of directing you to the Site’s User Home, it will direct you to the Journal’s User Home.
I expect this to resolve the first problem you describe here:
I applied this , with IF condition , So this means I need to make changes to my Cofig setting for base_url index to see if this work, am I right?
{if $isUserLoggedIn}
- <li id="userHome"><a href="{url journal="index" page="user"}">{translate key="navigation.userHome"}</a></li>
+ <li id="userHome"><a href="{if $hasOtherJournals}{url journal="index" page="user"}{else}{url page="user"}{/if}">{translate key="navigation.userHome"}</a></li>
{else}I think that change should work as-is. (I’m pretty sure the $hasOtherJournals variable is available before 2.4.8-1.)
When logged into your journal, the link should be constructed as $base_url[aro] + “/user”.
Did that work?
Yes that solved the issue with user site, and now I can add the /index to base_url[index] in config as
base_url[index] = http://aro.koyauniversity.org/index
base_url[aro] = http://aro.koyauniversity.org
restful_urls = on
but still I have to have redirection to my htaccess to make the short URL work
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^aro.koyauniversity.org$
RewriteRule ^$ http://aro.koyauniversity.org/index [L,R=301]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/index/(.*)$ /index.php/index/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/aro/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
BTW, in the direction you have provided on MAY 15 above on the last line one have to have it should be a / after SHORTNAME to read as below, without it it does not work
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/SHORTNAME/$1 [L]
Hi guys
Thank you very much for these elements, but as I have the same issue, nothing proposed in the several messages on the forum is working for me.
I have freshly installed OJS 3.0.2 on an Apache Server to use it for only one journal.
My conf. :
With the solution provided in the former message, I have to many redirection
I wish there would be an easier build-in solution for single journal installations.
Thank you very much for your help.
Has anyone successfully done this on OJS3.0? By not having a clean URL, SEO ranking will be affected too. This should be a part of the design itself. Any thoughts? Feedback? Thank you.
Were you able to resolve this? We are in the same situation 
Hi All,
We’ve struggled with a single journal site with pretty URLs for ages, tried various solutions posted in this thread and other places but had lots of errors all over the place.
Here’s what currently works best for us, haven’t had any error so far:
Site: https://ijpds.org
Journal Name: ijpds
Apache rewrite config:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/index/(.*)$ /index.php/index/$1 [L]
RewriteRule "^\/$" "/index.php/ijpds/" [PT]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !api/v1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/ijpds/$1 [QSA]
OJS conf file snippets:
base_url = “https://ijpds.org”
base_url[index] = International Journal of Population Data Science
base_url[ijpds] = https://ijpds.org
restful_urls = On
It’d be nice to hear from others what they had to do! 
Thanks @imranh! Your recipe worked! Only in the URL to the main page appears the second slash before ‘index’, for your example International Journal of Population Data Science and it appears in the URL everywhere except for static pages
Glad to hear it worked 
!
Not the end of the world, I think this’ll fix it if it bothers you:
Change RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/ijpds/$1 [QSA] to RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/ijpds$1 [QSA]
@imranh I tried this option. The site is loaded, but unfortunately all styles and some scripts (except external) are not loaded. Also, the navigation menu is not loaded in the frontend and all that is generated via JavaScript is not loaded in the backend ((
By the way, in the original solution some of the added scripts cease to work, for example, lightgallery.js issue an error SecurityError (DOM Exception 18): Blocked attempt to use history.replaceState() to change session history URL to http://article/view/42#lg=1&slide=0. Protocols, domains, ports, usernames, and passwords must match. in the console.
This is a setup that works for me with OJS 3.1.1.2. It includes a redirect to handle the troublesome API calls that have been returning an error in some cases. I do not have this in production use, so comments are welcome. Just a pointer that this was very handy while testing the rules: https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/
config.inc.php
base_url = "http://domain.net"
base_url[JOURNALPATH] = http://domain.net
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect calls to domain root to /index path
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.net [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://domain.net/index [L,R=301]
# Redirect api calls
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} api/v1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
# Redirect ordinary calls with a path
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/JOURNALPATH/$1 [QSA,L]
Edit: this works up to the point that if you go to your dashboard and try to access the administration tab, you will get a 404 because of the redirect above. It can be probably fixed with some additional redirects. Of course in a single journal installation, there is a limited need for access to the admin tab anyway, I guess.
I tried using these (both the above) codes @imranh and @ajnyga , however it doesnt work.
The articles are available on www.domain.com/article/view/243 for ex, however the redirects are not working, so it still shows www.domain.com/journalpath/article/view/243 and gives a 404 Not found error.
Error logs:
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[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; ADODB_Cache_File has a deprecated constructor in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 263
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; ADOConnection has a deprecated constructor in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 359
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; ADORecordSet has a deprecated constructor in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 2921
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[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Warning: Declaration of CustomBlockPlugin::getBlockContext() should be compatible with BlockPlugin::getBlockContext($contextId = NULL) in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockPlugin.inc.php on line 134
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[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/plugins/generic/customBlockManager/CustomBlockManagerPlugin.inc.php on line 65
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Non-static method PKPRequest::_checkThis() should not be called statically in /home/u741823471/domains/jmedresinnovation.org/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/core/Dispatcher.inc.php on line 245
[30-Dec-2018 12:08:34 UTC] ojs2: 404 Not Found
Hi,
Yeah, I do not think I ever considered how to redirect the old url’s to the new ones when they are indexed for example by google. Of course that is important with old sites.
It will be great if thats possible. Somehow if we can redirect domain.com/path/anything to domain.com/anything.
Hi All,
We changed in the OJS configuration file and managed to remove index.php; however, the whole theme changed to the current design.
Please advice us with the right code that we should add to our hta access taking into consideration that we are using Hostgator shared business plan.
Many thanks and best wishes
Can you clarify exactly what you changed, what you were expecting, and what you see instead?
The link you provided currently appears to point to a vanilla OJS 3.x install.
Not sure if this is the right place, but we moved a (single) journal install to another place and did some changes. later on, we unfortunately noticed that we accidental changed the journal path. We now have links to articles with both /path1/ and /path2/ and I am looking for a code to redirect path2 to path1 so indexed urls will still be valid.
I tried with a .htaccess file, but can’t get that to work and likely don’t understand enough about how OJS redirects urls, though, since it’s a single journal install I am hoping it won’t be too difficult.
Thanks for your help!