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#1005 – How to stop urls with menu item only being generated

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Tuesday, 15 September 2015 22:12 UTC

enjie

Hello Support

I have been battling to stop certain urls being generated:

1/ I have create a couple of menu items for display purpose only, for example 'Premium loose tea' under 'tea-shop.html'. Under this menu item there are various tea categories and under each category there are individual products. This menu item is currently linked Virtuemanrt home page (tea-shop.html) but not a Virtuemart category ('premium loose tea' is more a group name than a Virtuemart category), and therefore I really do not need a url generated for the menu 'premium loose tea' (tea-shop/premium-loose-tea.html).
2/ There are also K2 archive years being generated as individual urls such as 'date/2012/'. They are unnecessary and meaningless.

Your advice on how to configure sh404sef to stop these urls being generated will be greatly appreciated.

*our site: www.xxxx.com.au (we have a upgrade site which is a copy of the products site if admin login is helpful)
*the current config: item id - 'no' to all items
show category - last one only

best regards

En Jie

Wednesday, 16 September 2015 09:16 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

First off, you have to understand that sh404SEF never generate any URL. URLs (non-sef URLs, the only used internally by Joomla) are created by Joomla or by extensions running on your site. Joomla then asks sh404SEF to transform non-sef URL it creates into SEF URL that can be displayed on the site.
So all those URLs you talk about later always exist, whether you have sh404SEF or not on your site.

1 - Not sure I understand: if you display a menu item on your site, it's going to get a URL, otherwise nobody can click on it, right?

2/ See my preamble: sh404SEF do not generate those. They are created by K2 and displayed somewhere on your site. If they are displayed, then Joomla ask sh404SEF to create a SEF URL. But whether you have sh404SEF or not, a URL will always be created by Joomla, whenever a page with a link to those archive is displayed somewhere.

Rgds

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