Say you want to create a manual link to an article in Joomla! (that is, an "External Link" type menu item or a link within an article). You must start the URL with "index.php?...", not an absolute URL, or it will break compatibility with Search Engine Friendly URLs. With SEF off, you can just go to the front-end of your site and copy t...
I know you probably don't get many questions like this... I am working on a component that I want to be able to deal with the non-SEF URLs whilst SEF is enabled, whether it be the built-in SEF or something like sh404sef. Does Joomla store the ORIGINAL non-SEF URL anywhere ie. index.php?com=com_fred&view=homepage? I've found that any ...
Hello, I'm running Joomla on IIS. I've got about a dozen categories (financial newsletter publishers) that I'm using to organize about 40 articles (financial newsletters). I'm using the joomla built-in SEO so the URL's look like this: http://www.global-autotrading.com/autotraded-newsletters/13-angel-publishing/43-options-trading-pit.ht...
I am using Joomla Sef URLs and its working fine except that i need '.htm' suffix instead of '.html', please help. currently my URLs appear like : www.mysite.com/my-page.html I want it to be like www.mysite.com/my-page.htm ...
Hi, I am newbie to Joomla and WAMP environiment. I am using WAMP environment: Win Srv 2003 R2 (Std Ed) with SP2 and all recent updates Apache 2.2.9 PHP 5.2.6 Joomla 1.5.14 I want to enable mod_rewrite with Joomla SEF URL but it is not working together. If I set 'SEF URLs' and 'Add suffix to URLs' as Yes it works. Result: /index.p...
So far I'm re-inventing the wheel here in the most uncomfortable way. I can feel in my gut that this will break one day and cause me a lot of pain. Therefore I'm looking for a better way to take an article alias and build either the menu item url or the article url. Are there no joomla api calls that make this easier/cleaner/more futu...
Hello, I need help with SEO Configurations in Joomla. I have been tasked to handle an existing Joomla site for my company. It is a replicate (with different contents) of another joomla directory in the same server. The funny thing is, on the other Joomla site/directory, the SEO configuration is set to Yes for all 3 options (SEF, rewrite...
I'm enabling Joomla SEF , and get the following results when I link to an article from a homepage (frontpage) article: anywebsite.com/component/content/article/26/141-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4 but when linking from other articles I get the result I want which is : anywebsite.com/Categor/141-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4 and the link is both equal which is : index....
Hi , I am working Joomla 1.5 . I am unaware of how to set user-friendly Urls to the site in Joomla1.5. Give suggestions for keeping User-Friendly urls ... I have changed the configuration for SEO as yes to apache mod_rewrite and Search engine friendly Urls .It changes the url as http://localhost/joomla/Joomla_1.5.7/publicationsform...
Hi, We are using sef service map component and installed SEF SM SOBI2 Integrator for Joomla 1.5.x but if i enable the intigrator service map not getting generated giving a blank page.if i disable the intigrator it is generating properly for other content on the site.we have 35k + items in sobi2.is it not support for that much of recor...
we have sh404 sef component installed in my site.when we click any of the link on my site a sef url willl automatically generate and insert in to the databese.but i want to generate all the available sef urls for my site with out clicking all the links.how can i generate is there any way to ping all normal urls generated by me. how can ...
I have a custom Joomla component and a router for building my SEF URL's for use within the site, and everything is usually shiny - internally, all of my links look and act fantastic. I recently route a controller action that sends a list of links through email, and I've noticed that my URLs are coming out.... funky - hopefully someone c...
hi all, i have used artio sef in my site to have sef urls but for the wordpress component its giving me url www.fsdf.com/index.php/blog instead of www.fsdf.com/blog as i have tried to create manually but it is still same.... also www.fsdf.com/index.php/blog is not having my css.... please help.... thanks in advance... ...
Hi I have developed a custom component for Joomla 1.5. However the urls when SEF is turned on could look a bit better e.g. display the title rather than the id, how can I make custom urls for my component when SEF for Joomla is turned on? ...
Hi - I'm new to Joomla, and have switched on SEF URLs. However, the issue is that it returns my links in the format: www.site.com/category/article I'd like it to return articles in the format: www.site.com/section/category/article I've searched Stack Overflow and haven't found the answer...wondering if anyone could help. Thanks in a...
I have made a joomla component and wise to make the site sef. The problem is that some of the URL from the components put values by get method. so that the next page can do the task accordingly. say index.php?option=com_mediaonline&view=mediaonline&task=234&id=837 so that the next page will process the task accordingly, with task = ...
Hi all When i enable SEF mod_apache .. all the thinks works fine except contact form . it shows 404 component not found error ... if both are disabled then it works fine... Anyone please help me Thanks in advance Nisanth ...
Hi all, i am running a site with joomla. It has a bunch of mod rewrite rules i don't totally understand.. as well as some kind of SEF link thing running. i have a specific page named sched.html that i need to serve up and be completely ignored from the .htaccess. I have tried everything i can possibly think of. including a number of re...
I created a Joomla template by creating the following files:index.php" , "templateDetails.xml","images" and "css". I installed it correctly but the images are not displayed when i am selecting the template. Anyone knows how to resolve this problem? I triple checked the paths and different settings of Joomla but i did not work ...