Hello,I have a website that uses JoomSEF. I have already updated it to Joomla 4 on my staging server. Now I have JoomSEF managing my URLs (70.000) and I want to move it to 4SEF.
Can I just export links from JoomSEF (it exports sql file) and import directly to 4SEF on my Joomla 4 updated website? Or I have to install 4SEF on J3 website, than import links from JoomSEF. After importing to 4SEF export it and then export into my J4 website?
I have checked this link: https://weeblr.com/blog/using-joomsef-or-mijosef-on-joomla-3-how-to-update-to-joomla-4-today but it's talking about sh404SEF and sh404SEF importer that I can't find anymore on website.
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wb_weeblr
Hi,
I have checked this link: https://weeblr.com/blog/using-joomsef-or-mijosef-on-joomla-3-how-to-update-to-joomla-4-today but it's talking about sh404SEF and sh404SEF importer that I can't find anymore on website
This article is correct and outlines the way it's possible to migrate from JoomSef to 4SEF with the best hopes of maintaining SEF URLs (nothing's guaranteed when it comes to these old extensions).
sh404SEF is/was a commercial extension and is not available to the public. We do provide it as a courtesy to our 4SEF subcribers.
So the path is what's described in the article:
- on Joomla 3
- install sh404SEF
- install the importer plugin
- import SEF URLs from JoomSEF to sh404SEF
- migrate to 4SEF
- migrate from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 then 5.
Note that if you have custom metadata, 4SEF will not handle them. 4SEF does only one single thing: SEF URLs. It has no other feature.
4SEO is our SEO extension and it can also import data from sh404SEF. Again, this has to happen on Joomla 3.
While sh404SEF and the importer plugin are unmaintained and unsupported, we have had a number of users with very satisfying results.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
elmweb
Hello Yannick;So I can’t move it from J3 to already updated website? From 4SEF on J3 to 4SEF on J4?Any chance importing tables in MySQL? Thank youElmir Da: Weeblr <[email protected]> Inviato: giovedì 2 maggio 2024 18:16A: elmweb <[email protected]>Oggetto: [weeblr.com] Reply to your public ticket #11044 From JoomSEF to 4SEF [Pre-sale questions]
wb_weeblr
Hi
So I can’t move it from J3 to already updated website
You must go through sh404SEF and sh404SEF is a Joomla 3-only extension. So, no, this is not possible while already on Joomla 4 or higher.
If you do not have, or only a manageable number, of CUSTOM URLs, then maybe your best option is to just install 4SEF on your new site, and try to configure it as close as possible to what JoomSEF had.
It's possible that most URLs will be the same, and then it's only a matter of having all URLs on the site be generated. That can be done with crawler (such as the one in 4SEO) or an online sitemap maker for instance.
Result will depends a lot on whether you have mostly Joomla native content (articles and categories) or 3rd-party extensions content. For 3rd-party extensions, 4SEF may produce different URLs than what the JoomSEF plugins for these extensions were doing.
It's a big mess but it can only be done empirically, by testing.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
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