[SOLVED] Redirect on login, again

Trying to re=organize my login process for my invite-only website. I have cb-login on every page, but now public logs in from the base URL index.php.

I set redirect on login in CB login module to index.php/media

If they login from index.php - no problem and they end up on index.php/media

However the site logo I changed to index.php/media and if not logged on throws the not logged in error and goes to index.php/cb-login
Similarly the link to CB Profile is visible and throws a different not-auth error and goes to index.php/personal

In both those cases they can still log in but are redirected to index.php/media/cb-login and index.php/media/personal which are 404.
It seems to be trying to return to the logout URL on top of the login redirect.

I see $logoutReturnUrl set in bootstrap-horizontal_logout.php reflects these URL's so somehow I have to disable that.

Don't use SEF or relative URLs for redirects. Use non-SEF beginning with index.php. Example as follows.

index.php?option=com_comprofiler&view=userprofile

This would redirect to the users profile. If it's a menu item then edit the menu item and copy the Link parameter value. Next add &Itemid=MENU_ID to the URL. Example as follows.

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&Itemid=294

The above goes to a specific article for example. This ensures users will always go where you're intending for them to go. When you use SEF URLs if you change the menu alias for example you'll break the redirect. If you use relative URLs then depending on where the user is at it could break the URL. Non-SEF URLs prevent all of these issues. They will be SEF during the redirect so they'll see the appropriate URL in their browser address bar.

Ah ha - I thought it would be something simple like that. So that stops the bad URL's , but I am simply trying to display the menu item that uses Featured Articles menu type.
I copied the link in the menu -
index.php?option=com_content&view=featured
and tacked on the Menu_ID -
index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&itemid=435

The layout is all wrong ( articles in wrong order ) and the menus published to that menu item are missing. I see "itemid" is the correct parameter here -
docs.joomla.org/URLs_in_Joomla
, but it seems to be ignoring it. Output doesn't change regardless of what itemid I use.

You need to be sure to use Itemid it is case sensitive in Joomla for whatever reason.

lol. I didn't notice the uppercase "I". Hard to tell the difference. Thanks, that fixed it!