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#2464 – SEF URLs not in effect

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Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:04 UTC

velieb

Hello,
I just noticed that all the URLs in my site ( xxxx.com ) contain 'index.php' all of sudden and some of URLs went back to totally non-SEFs URLs. I recently worked on 404 Requests and redirected a lot of 404 URLs, wonder this is anything to do with it.
Thanks, V

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:06 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

The "index.php" means you have modified a setting in Joomla configuration. Go there and be sure "Use URL rewriting" is enabled.

Right now, the URLs I see are NOT non-sef, so you might already have fixed that question.

Rgds

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:08 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi again

I can see that the "Groups" menu is non-sef. So it looks like Community builder has been set to being non-sef.
Go to sh404SEF, under the "By components" tab, what are the settings for "Community builder" or (com_profiler)?

Rgds

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:35 UTC

velieb

Thanks for your quick help, I changed back the Joomla setting and it fixed the problem. Not sure what happened on that setting.
I knew about CB URLs, somehow their group URLs don't support SEFs. The setting is 'use default handler'.
I also just noticed now that one of the component's setting (EventBooking) has been changed to Joomla Router, probably its support team did it. I had a problem using Joomla router before, which was related to not getting proper 404.

One more question, how can I reset/change the URLs that I redirected already in 404 Request? Changing them at the SEFs URLs' Alias will do it?

Thanks

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:38 UTC

wb_weeblr

One more question, how can I reset/change the URLs that I redirected already in 404 Request?

What do you mean by "reset"?

Rgds

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:41 UTC

velieb

I meant "change to different URLs"

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:43 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

But a 404 is not an URL, how can you "change" it?
Rgds

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:52 UTC

velieb

I asked "how can I reset/change the URLs that I redirected already in 404 Request", not a 404.

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 08:57 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

OK, don't think I understand what you want to do. You redirected those 404s. You didn't make them a URL. You can't do that, because they are not URLs.

Let's say you have this 404: /xxxx

You redirected it to, say: /activities-friends

That's doesn't make /xxxx a URL. You just told sh404SEF (you could do the same with your .htaccess), that when someone requests /xxxx, it should reply to that person browser to instead go visit another page (/activities-friends in this case).

What do you want to change here? /activities-friends?

Rgds

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 09:16 UTC

velieb

I see, I should have said "changed the direction"
I redirected /index.php to /log-yourself-in or /create-your-account, don't remember exactly. Now I want to have /index.php to be redirected to xxxx.com, the homepage. So I checked the alias for both log-yourself-in and /create-your-account but can't find the 'index.php' listed there. It is not a critical problem for me at this point but kind of curious.

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 09:21 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Don't do that. /index.php is a special URL, because the file index.php actually exists. So you don't want to redirect that in general, it's the best way to get infinite redirect loops.

sh404SEF already handles this for you in the safest manner, by inserting a canonical link to your home page, so there is nothing to do about /index.php.

Please note that there is currently no redirect happening for /index.php, so maybe you didn't actually put the redirect in place.

To see the current list of aliases, just go to the "Aliases" page of sh404SEF admin.
If you find index.php there (just search for "index.php"), then delete the alias.

Rgds

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 09:33 UTC

velieb

Oops.
I just found the index.php at the aliases, attaching the image, delete this?

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 09:34 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

This is not a major problem, but yes, just delete it from the aliases list. There is no reason to redirect index.php, as long as the page contains a canonical to the home page.

Rgds

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 09:37 UTC

velieb

Done, Thank You for your support!

Tuesday, 05 July 2016 09:39 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

You're welcome ;)

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

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Rgds

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 05:34 UTC

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