Self Serve Membership - Joomla

[TonyBuckley]

Hi,

Joomla      3.3
CiviCRM    4.5
mySQL     5.1.73
PHP          5.3.29

I know Joomla very well.   Brand new to CiviCRM.

I am just playing around and already got stuck.   I wish to start by providing a Joomla page to allow users to sign up for membership.   I can forget about payments for now, that will come later as will a host of custom fields. 

Once a member is created, I wish them to be able to login and access other pages.  I am confused if membership is the same as creating a Joomla account, but can't get as far to even test this.

I have a fresh Joomla install, and successfully installed CiviCRM.  I have gone through the config checklist and all looks good.  I have followed the instructions at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Configure+Online+Contribution+Pages+for+Membership+Signup+and+Renewal

I configured by:
- created a membership organisation
- created a profile.  This is shown as Type Membership and Used For CiviContribute.
- created a membership linked to my membership organisation
- created a contribution page linked to my membership
- created a menu item of type Contribution Page
- Selected against that menu item my contribution page

When I click on the menu item, I get a not found page (full message posted at end).

I have looked at the demo site but these use hypertext links rather than menu items and I can't work out how these have been created.

So any pointers?   What have I missed?   I'd love to be able to get this working.

Appreciate help from this first post but maybe I have completely the wrong end of the stick on this :-)

Tony

<div id="crm-container" class="crm-container" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <style type="text/css" media="screen">@import url(/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/css/civicrm.css);</style> <div class="messages status no-popup"> <div class="icon red-icon alert-icon"></div> <span class="status-fatal">Sorry but we are not able to provide this at the moment.</span> <div class="crm-section crm-error-message">A payment processor must be selected for this contribution page (contact the site administrator for assistance).</div> <p><a href="http://jaseplaytime.me.uk/" title="Main Menu">Return to home page.</a></p> </div> </div> <script language="JavaScript"> function toggle( element ) { var className = element.className; if ( className == 'crm-accordion-wrapper collapsed crm-fatal-error-details-block') { element.className = 'crm-accordion-wrapper crm-fatal-error-details-block'; } else { element.className = 'crm-accordion-wrapper collapsed crm-fatal-error-details-block'; } } </script>

[TonyBuckley]

PS:   This is the URL that Joomla is attempting to go to...  index.php?option=com_civicrm&view=Contributions

Doesn't look at all right does it lol.

Tony

[TonyBuckley]

OK - being thick!   Didn't read the error message properly - sorted and page now shows.

[carlhnelson]

I'm also starting down the Joomla & Civi path, am pretty experienced withy Joomla.  Any words of wisdom, or mental models I'll need to develop to make the civi integration and usage go smoothly?