title: How to restore joomla article html pages
body: <p>My website has installed wordpress automatically over my joomla site about 3 times now.  Previously I managed to fix it and I don't remember how, this time I went into cpanel and uninstalled wordpress directly, leaving only joomla installed.  </p>
  
  <p>Well apparently in this process of wordpress coming and going, a bit of my joomla stuff was deleted from the file directories, particularly the website root.  I lost my index.php and all the article html pages.  </p>
  
  <p>If I log in to website.com/administrator I can see all the articles still. I know they are there and I can still edit and save them, yet the article alias no longer exists.  </p>
  
  <p>I can still go to the direct article link, and the page is there, but the menu options I have set up are all pointing to their own respective article alias, and these no longer function because they show up like <code>website.com/alias.html</code> and that doesn't have anything.</p>
  
  <p>I was hoping I could just open the article and save it and it would automatically recreate these alias pages.  I was successful in recreating the root index.php by downloading a separate joomla locally and just reuploading the index.php file via ftp...  However unsuccessful in all the other root directory files that are missing.</p>
  
  <p>I am using <code>Joomla! 3.9.11 Stable [ Amani ] 13-August-2019 15:00 GMT</code> and I haven't been able to find anything that is actually related to this issue.  Every time I type anything related into google it's something to do with people having issues inserting custom html into their articles.</p>
  
  <p>I don't really want to reinstall joomla to avoid screwing more things up.  I don't mind reinstalling the template if that is what it takes, mostly because I am assuming that won't interfere with all the articles I have already built out...  Majority of which are custom HTML that I would prefer not to rewrite and waste precious time on... I am using <code>jd_newjersey</code> template as it's labeled in my joomla interface.</p>
  
  <p>Sorry for not having any real code and mostly just a wall of text but to sum up the issue:</p>
  
  <p>I lost my article alias html pages and I need a way to get them reproduced as simply as possible so I can restore the basic functionality of my website. Note this is not the pages like <code>index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=5</code> but rather just <code>website.com/alias.html</code> that joomla creates automatically...</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for any help in advance.</p>