Joomla 2-uncategorised Redirects

Joomla was generating a Category Blog layout for Uncategorised articles even though an explicit menu item was not created to do so.

With SEF URLs enabled, the URL always ended with “2-categorised”. For example:

https://mysite.com/a/2-categorised
https://mysite.com/b/2-categorised

No matter the subdirectory, it would display uncategorised articles in its default Category Blog layout — with 1 leading article, 4 intro articles in 2 columns, and 4 links at the bottom.

To “fix” this, I created a redirect to my 404 page, but you could redirect the user to whatever page you want.

// Apache
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule (^|/)2-uncategorised$ /404 [R=301,L]
// IIS
<rule name="Joomla! Uncategorised Rule" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{URL}" pattern="(^|/)2-uncategorised$" ignoreCase="false" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="/404" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>