#8850 – Duplicated URLURL

Hi

I don't understand why, one of them has the Itemid at the end.

I don't know either! What you see on your screen means that somewhere on your site, 4SEO found these 2 URLs. It cannot tell you where (we only do that for 404s) so it may be hard to diagnose indeed. That said, if you only have one such instance, that should not be too much of a problem.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Hi

You also talk about 404S, do you mean sh404SEF ?

No, I mean pages that returns a 404 error status. If 4SEO finds a links in your site that, when clicked, go to a 404, it records on which page the bad link was found so that you can fix it.

But when the link "works", as in your case, we do not record where each link is found, that would be too much information to store. That's why 4SEO cannot tell you where it found that link "website-specific-development-project-management/before-starting-your-ecommerce-website-project?temid=147"

By the way, I cannot tell you where that link is, but I can tell where the problem comes from: that value should be Itemid=147 and it's temid=147. The I at the start is missing.

So somewhere on your site, instead of adding a link to

"index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12345&Itemid=147"

you used

"index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12345&temid=147"

This broke the Joomla router when it tried to create the SEF URL for that link.

But in your site, you said that 4SEO replace sh404SEF !

I never said anything like that. 4SEO is not a replacement for sh404SEF, it's not the successor or anything close to that.

4SEO does not anything with SEF URLS and so it cannot replace sh404SEF in any way.

We released a couple of weeks ago another extension, called 4SEF, that does replace the SEF URL part of sh404SEF.

In short:

- 4SEF = SEF URL creation, compatible with sh404SEF,

- 4SEO: SEO features of sh404SEF + many more SEO features that were not in sh404SEF (sitemaps, structured data, content replacement mostly)

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Hi

 do I still need sh404SEF ?

You should not have sh404SEF and 4SEF running at the same time (they can be installed, no problem, but you if 4SEF is handling SEF URLs, then "Enable URL optimization" in sh404SEF should be set to No).

There are still a few things for which there's no replacement in 4SEO. The most important certainly are the social networks sharing buttons.

If you use that, then either you keep using sh404SEF instead of switching to 4SEF right away, or you have to use another solution for sharing buttons. 

These sharing buttons will be released in the future as a separate, free plugin but I cannot have any date for that yet.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Hi

It's available as part of your sh404SEF subscription. It's currently in beta testing, but it's alredy been tested a fair bit so it should be pretty ok.

While in beta test, always check the development versions download area in case a newer version is pending release for the latest fixes and improvements.

As usual:

- the more people test, the faster 4SEF will be considered ready

- first test on a copy of your site, or at least have a backup ready to be restored in case something goes wrong

Documentation is here and there's a Getting started video embedded in the component (and in the doc), with a chapter dedicated to moving from sh404SEF.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr