Search Engine Friendly URLs
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- Jeffrey Bordes
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- half way thru designing my website, i realized I had "Search Engine Friendly URLs" set to NO. I've changed it to YES but now have dead links. How do I resolve this while keeping the Search Engine Friendly URLs?
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- David@IOC
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- See if this will help you. http://www.joomlaseo.net/Joomla/SEO/SEF-Search-Engine-Friendly.html
- My only expectation is to EXCEED yours!.
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- Jeffrey Bordes
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Thank you... I understand the link and followed the instructions. To my surprise, in my root directory, the file was already named .htaccess
In my Global Config, I have Search Engine Friendly URLs set to Yes. I've now selected "Use Apache mod_rewrite" set to YES - is this right? you can see my website at www.tracywine.com .
Thanks for your help...
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- Barrie
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I was wondering why I was getting 404's, Thanks for this post and the useful link. It works a treat for me
Barrie
www.thebigdogblog.com - Regards,
Barrief
www.thebigdogblog.com
Replicant V2, (pretty much out of the box)
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- Arifin FinLy
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hi,
I checked both www.tracywine.com and www.thebigdogblog.com and I couldn't found the 404 error you mentioned. I think you have fixed it?
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- David@IOC
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You might want to consider an alternative to Joomla's built in SEF. I am currently using sh404SEF:
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2380/Itemid,35/
Also, check out this article:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-complete-introduction-to-joomla-seo[/url ]
Back to your question, I had the same problem and did the following to correct.
1. Disable all of Joomla's SEF functions (Global Settings)
2. Disable plugin "System Cache"
2. Tools->Clean Cache
3. rename your .htaccess back to htaccess.txt
4. Next, open your configuration.php file (wich is also located in your Joomla root folder) and
change the: ( http://www.teachmejoomla.net/joomla-mambo-tutorials-and-howtos/general-questions/how-to-enable-seo-on-joomla.html )
$mosConfig_sef = '1';
line to:
$mosConfig_sef = '0';
4. **Temporarily disable 3rd party extensions or party plugins that may cause conflict.
5. Install SEO Patch: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/3778/details
6. Start over and see if that resolves the problem. - My only expectation is to EXCEED yours!.
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- Barrie
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Thanks for the info D2 very useful,
I think I will wait until I have some better skills for using sh404SEF as it seems that it is still beta and the developer is alone in this and therefore support is somewhat sporadic. Sounds like a great plugin but not perhaps for the newbie that I am So I will just be careful with my descriptions and titles for the time being and rely on that to produce URLs of a reasonable quality. Only thing is I want to edit the robot.txt to include "No follow" for external links until I am getting a decent amount of action from the bots. For the life of me I cant find it.... will dedicate some time on it tonight
Barrie
www.thebigdogblog.com - Regards,
Barrief
www.thebigdogblog.com
Replicant V2, (pretty much out of the box)
I don't care how many stars I get I am a NEWBIE!
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- Renee Purdie
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Man ... I've read so many articles as I tried to get this working that I thought my head was going to implode.
Anyway, D2, thanks for this site: http://www.joomlaseo.net/Joomla/SEO/SEF-Search-Engine-Friendly.html as it was very simple to read and almost worked perfectly for me.
These were the instructions:
How do I enable SEF
Complete the following steps to enable search engine friendly URL's for Joomla.
(1) Confirm that your web hosting company support's Apache and mod_rewrite.
( most web hosting providers do support this functionality )
(2) Access your web host using an FTP client, I would recommend using smartftp.
(3) Navigate to the root directory or Joomla installation directory.
(4) Select the htaccess.txt file and rename it to .htaccess
(5) Now Access the Joomla administrator console
(6) Select the Global Configuration item.
(7) Select the SEO tab
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Enable Search Engine Friendly URLs
(9) A popup box will now appear to confirm you have renamed the htaccess.txt to .htaccess
(10) When you view your web the URL's will now look like www.site.com/content/view/1/2/ or www.domain.com/Section_Name/Categoryname/Item_Name/
A pop-up didn't appear and I also had to turn 'Use Apache mod_rewrite' to yes, but then the URLs changed over to reasonable ones.
So far, so good with the whole 404 thing too. *fingers crossed*
Cheers
Renée
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