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- Daniel A Wright
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Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- We currently use joomla's standard SEF URL's and have found a number of duplicate urls to the same page.
  
  "Kat" mentioned "sh404sef" so I have duley downloaded and have change global setting to all off for SEO URL's. I can get the home page up BUT any other page comes up with an error "404 Not Found". (I removed the htaccess before switching on sh404sef).
  
  When I set it back to just using the standard Joomla SEF URL's and add back the htaccess file all works.
  
  Thanks
  Danny
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- Amandeep Singh
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- You need to have these two things:
  
  1) Change htaccess.txt file to .htaccess
  2) Enable mod_rewrite in global configuration
- Quick tips::
  1) Clear your browser cache if changes dont reflect
  2) Provide link to your site to help us help you better
  3) Use in firebug
  Tutorial-- http://www.rockettheme.com/blog/team/255-tools-firebug
  
  softlogique.com
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- Daniel A Wright
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- Amandeep,
  
  Ok Going to give this a go now. In FTP I change the .htaccess to htaccess.txt
  
  BUT I dont think I did the mod_rewrite enable.
  
  Thanks will let you know how I get on..
  
  Thank you
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- Daniel A Wright
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- Amandeep Singh wrote:
  You need to have these two things:
  
  1) Change htaccess.txt file to .htaccess
  2) Enable mod_rewrite in global configuration
  
  Ok kind of worked:
  
  When you go to say our services in the URL is index.php and does not show with css.
  
  example: www.domain.com/index.php/our-services
  
  is there a way of removing the "index.php" and would this solve the issue??
  
  Thanks Danny
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- Amandeep Singh
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- As it seems, this is your homepage.
  
  You can even make urls look better by enabling suffix to url in global configuration
- Quick tips::
  1) Clear your browser cache if changes dont reflect
  2) Provide link to your site to help us help you better
  3) Use in firebug
  Tutorial-- http://www.rockettheme.com/blog/team/255-tools-firebug
  
  softlogique.com
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- Arifin FinLy
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- Daniel A Wright wrote:
  Ok kind of worked:
  When you go to say our services in the URL is index.php and does not show with css.
  example: www.domain.com/index.php/our-services
  is there a way of removing the "index.php" and would this solve the issue??
  Thanks Danny
  
  in your sh404sef configuration, you can may choose with .htaccess (mod_rewrite) for the rewriting mode to remove the "index.php"
  
  see attached pic
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- Daniel A Wright
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- Hi Arifin & Amandeep,
  
  Having a few issues with sh404sef. We have a number of pages index and I'm thinking I would like to still use the standard Joomla SEF URL's. To save any issue with losing pr / search rankings. I've been looking at the global settings for:
  SEO Settings and this is now there set at present
  
  Search Engine Friendly URLs Yes
  Use Apache mod_rewrite Yes
  Add suffix to URLs Yes
  
  I played about with the suffix on and off and managed to get rid of the error with "home-mainmenu-71.html" with the suffix on "No" But this messed the whole site as there was no ".html". I thought I had cracked it but no..... any more help would be great
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- Daniel A Wright
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- Amandeep I've just tried this with your website and the same thing happens: www.softlogique.com/home-mainmenu-71.html shows the same content as your home page!! ???? Still trying to work out how to fix this. ...............
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- Daniel A Wright
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- Hi Arifin FinLy,
  
  Ok tried this out BUT URL's are coming out like this:
  
  www.domain.com/component/option,com_cont.../id,99/view,article/
  
  Not sure what I've done?
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- James Spencer
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Re: Help required about SEF URL's / sh404sef

Posted 15 years 10 months ago
- Have you tried using default Joomla 1.5 SEO, its pretty good, you probably don't need sh404sef as Joomla itself can probably provide your needs. Seems there are a lot of issues with 3rd party SEO components. Is there any reason for sh404sef or is just because its something you've always used.
  
  Btw, we use default 1.5 SEO on the RT site.
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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