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Overview

This pages lets you configure how 4SEO interacts with other 3rd-party Joomla extensions. Start by selecting which extension you want to configure from the Extension to configure select list.

After you select an extension, available options for this extension will appear below the select list.

sh404SEF / 4SEF

Auto-redirect to Joomla SEF URLs

If you have used sh404SEF (or 4SEF, we'll treat them the same here) but then decided to remove it and replace it with only 4SEO, all the page addresses on your site will change. This very negative for your SEO performance and should be avoided in most cases.

If you still decided to go ahead, the best way to handle this is to redirect all pages from their previous sh404SEF/4SEF address to their new address as created by Joomla.

Fortunately, 4SEO can do that entirely automatically as long as:

  • you keep Auto-redirect to Joomla SEF URLs enabled
  • the sh404SEF/4SEF database table are left present in the database

This feature can only operate if data from sh404SEF/4SEF is present in the database. Even if you uninstall sh404SEF / 4SEF, this is normally the case, as they both leave all their database tables behind when uninstalling. However, you have the option in sh404SEF/4SEF to remove all data when uninstalling. If you do that, this data is lost and 4SEO will not be able to perform automatic redirects from sh404SEF/4SEF addresses to Joomla adresses.