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I'm familiar with Drupal but not with Joomla. I'm not sure what is causing the main CiviCRM menu to not be provided on a Joomla site. Is there a setting somewhere that controls that?

Details: A Joomla 1.5.11 had CiviCRM 2.2.6 installed and apparently running properly but wasn't being used. Site got moved to a different server. Joomla worked fine there, but when CiviCRM was examined after several it wasn't running run due to changes in absolute path. Site was moved back, and CiviCRM was running but not looked at closely. Did an upgrade to 3.0.2 without incident. Issue is that the main menu for CiviCRM is not being rendered in browser.

Here's the html that is missing the menu, with what replaces it bolded.
<div id="toolbar-box">
            <div class="t">
            <div class="t">
               <div class="t"/>
            </div>
         </div>
         <div class="m">
            <div id="toolbar" class="toolbar">
<table class="toolbar"><tbody><tr>
</tr></tbody></table>
</div>
            <div class="header icon-48-generic">
CiviCRM
</div>

            <div class="clr"/>
         </div>
         <div class="b">
            <div class="b">
               <div class="b"/>
            </div>
         </div>
        </div>

I notice that the main page for the Joomla demo has two copies of the civicrm-menu html, with only the first visible. This site has the second but not the first copy of this html.

Thanks for responding Rohit.

I'm only concerned about the Administrator interface at the moment: http://joomla.demo.civicrm.org/administrator/index.php?option=com_civicrm and on my site, http://mydomain.ca/administrator/index.php?option=com_civicrm

With regard to browsers, it's the same in both Firefox and Safari. I've also found that the page source for the demo and for my site is essentially the same for this, but that the DOM in Firebug is quite different. So my guess now is that there is a problem in the js somewhere in the Joomla theme.

if you are using the standard admin theme there shouldn't be any problem as we have it installed it on a number of machines. Is it possible for you to send us a screenshot.

I am having the same problem...  I am new to Joomla... 

I noticed on the demo that civicrm uses the same administration template as Joomla.  When I installed it I expected the same thing, but it is just blue text on a white background.  I was wondering if this was something I had to set manually?  I really don't know if I can set it because the civicrm menu bar is missing.  I cannot get to anything to administer civicrm.

Hi Joe,

It's recommended to use only one domain for CiviCRM either mydomain.org or www.mydomain.org

I had massive problems with Joomla + CiviCRM because of this.

Check your civicrm.settings.php file in components/com_civicrm and administrator/components/com_civicrm folders and see if the settings are the same.

check using www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com in your web browser to access the admin interface. it may work with one and not with the other.