@Rohit,

What plugin are you using?

Other than the standard plugin

Group Tools 2.8
Liang Lee Metatags 1.0.3
Advanced Google Tools 1.8
Tidypics Photo Gallery 1.8.0-rc1
Bright Theme 1.1.1
File Tools 1.0
Friend request 3.2
Messages Block 1.0
IP Tracker 1.8.2
Spam Login Filter 1.8.2
Videos 1.4
Welcome Message 1.8
Facebook Connect 1.8
Login Redirector 3.0
Profile Manager 7.5.1
TheWire Tools 2.1
River Addon 2013.09.04
Event Manager 2.7
Auto Sitemap 1.8
Contact Us 1.2.0

So, the groups link won't work if you're logged out? Or do they appear and it is just the link?

Rodolfo Hernandez

Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison

That's definitely not default behavior - try systematically disabling the following plugins and checking to see if they are the cause:

Liang Lee Metatags

Advanced Google Tools

Bright Theme

Mesages Block

Videos

River Addon

Auto Sitemap

These are plugins I'm not familiar with, the other ones I'm pretty confident are not the issue

@rjcalifornia: Suppose there is an activity line as "XYZ joined the group ABC"
Problem is with the href of ABC.. when the user is loggedin the href is "http://www.mydomain.com/groups/profile/GUID/TITLE" but the same ABC on the same activity line shows "http://www.mydomain.com/view/GUID" when the user is not loggedin..

@Matt: I deactivated the above mentioned plugins run an upgrade but still the problem persist..

@Rohit

Did you  customized anything in that (groups or river addon like )?

Yes i made a small change in start.php file for group as below

function groups_url($entity){
$title = elgg_get_friendly_title($entity->name);
if (!($user instanceof ElggUser)) {
$user = elgg_get_logged_in_user_entity(); }
if (!($user instanceof ElggUser))
{ return false; }
if(is_group_member($entity->guid, $user->getGUID())==true) {
return "groups/activity/{$entity->guid}/$title"; }
else{
return "groups/profile/{$entity->guid}/$title";
}
}

I guess this is where the problem was... "return false" on the 6th line of the above code was actually changing the URL. Thanks for the help. I have fixed it.

can replace address of groups by short url?

groups/profile/guid/title

to

groups/title

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http://www.sitename.com/groups/profile/guid/title

to

http://www.sitename.com/groups/title