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I have installed Joomla 1.5 with legacy support and added civicrm to it (thats the main reason for setting up joomla)

Installation was fairly straightforward and I can access the civicrm administration pages when looged in the administration side of Joomla. -

What I cannot do is add a menu in Joomla to make Civicrm present on the public part of Joomla. - I have enabled it in module manager and set up a menu item to display (as best as I understand it) Civicrm.

The url provided by joomla is http://mydomain.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_civicrm&Itemid=55 but the content says  'Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred. Could not find valid value for gid'

I have never used Joomla before and I suspect this may be a joomla rather than civicrm issue, but I would appreciate any pointers as to how to link civicrm with Joomla?

tia

I am also very new hoping this might be helpful.  For:  J1.5X and civiCRM 2 beta. (Editing requested by better users please if needed)

Joomla admin>
1. Go to Menu Manager and >(new) create a new Name_menu.
2, Open that Name_menu from Menu manager and  >(new) create Name_menu items (3) possibly.  These should be names like Create_profile, Edit_profile, Search_profile. and all should be Item type ~ CiviCRM~ (Select Menu Item type).
3. As U create these menu items  U can choose their Chosen CiviCRM task from the pulldown upper right.  Match the task item to your Name_menu (ex:Create_profile goes with task Profile create). The link tags are done for U. >>> PROFILE ID # must be filled in here. Go get the ID # from your Profile creation in CiviCRM and plug it here.  Same one for all your menu items.
4. Go to Extentions/Module Manager and >(new)  create module called Name_Menu (from step 1) and place it in a module location using  position (puldown a choice ex: top, user 1, header etc).  Go see! out front it R a very kool magic trick indeed.
enjoy,
PapaLion