URL of subcategories on Magento shows 404 error page

Question

I'm new on Magento. I don't know what happen with the url of sub category on Magento.

When on www.wow.ng/customer/account/login/ OR www.wow.ng/catalogsearch/result/ OR www.wow.ng/checkout/cart/ I can only link to category or product page but I cannot link to subcategories. This is how it links to subcategories www.wow.ng/checkout/cart/food-drinks.html which gives a 404 error page. Clearly the page URL is not correct. The correct URL is www.wow.ng/food-drinks.html but Magento does not remove the checkout/cart OR catalogsearch/result from the url. Hope you guy can help me to fix this problem.

I am using Magento ver. 1.9.1.0

Any question please feel free to ask. Thank you

Answer 1

It looks like your category links are relative. Your links should look like this:

<a href="/food-drinks.html">

Not

<a href="food-drinks.html">

Magento give us a function to handle links:

<a href="<?php echo $this->getUrl('food-drinks.html') ?>

This will append the whole url and any parameters needed.

Ideally, you would get the URL from the category object encase the URL changes.

If you add some code snippets I could probably advise further. Good luck!