Keeping Jot Working with Friendly URLs Instead of Numeric Comment Links

Friendly URLs and comment systems do not always cooperate cleanly on older Evolution CMS stacks. The donor case described a Jot setup where the public page had a proper friendly URL, but comment-related behavior started exposing numeric document IDs like /3045 instead of the expected page.html form.

This is exactly the sort of bug that erodes trust in a polished site because the main page works, but specific interaction flows reveal the raw internal routing model.

What to inspect

• Whether the comment tool builds return URLs from the real page alias or from the numeric ID.
• Whether the rewrite rules correctly normalize those numeric paths.
• Whether the snippet configuration still assumes older routing behavior.

The fix is usually not in the visual template at all. It lives at the boundary between snippet-generated links and the site’s URL normalization rules.