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#2637 – Indexing of SEF very slow or not working, site down

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Monday, 22 August 2016 17:16 UTC

afumcadmin1

sh404SEF only seems to be indexing our 1st level menu pages. When I try to navigate to 3rd level menus I get: 'WE ARE SORRY, WE CAN'T FIND THAT PAGE!' I've purged all the files and navigated to the home page right after doing so but nothing seems to work. We discovered this when adding a new menu item it got a the 404. The menu item is published as is the page and the sef url is correct. Permissions are public on both.

http://xxxx.org/groups-study-2.htm

Click on one of links in the main body of the page to see the issue.

Ideas?

Monday, 22 August 2016 17:21 UTC

afumcadmin1

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Monday, 22 August 2016 17:45 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

That seems consistent with the way you have built your site. The problem (on the pages I have checked) is that you have hardcoded all the links, instead of following Joomla API and using non-sef URLs. Therefore the links are not passed by Joomla to sh404SEF, which can't create the corresponding SEF URL, record it in the database, and thus a 404 is generated.

The problematic links are those that you created with modules, using widget kits. For instance, going to that page: http://xxxx.org/toc-ministries-programs.htm

The content is not actual article but instead a series of modules. Looking at the "Ministries and programs" widget settings, we see this:

[xxxx]

So the link there is harcoded, and so the Joomla SEF system is not informed of its existence. The joomla way to enter URL, in that example would be:

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=27

After I changed the link on that widget:

there is no more 404.

Note there may be other types of pages with the same issue, if you hardcoded more links in other types of content.

Rgds

Monday, 22 August 2016 18:24 UTC

afumcadmin1

Thank you. I don't personally maintain the site anymore and didn't realize those pages were built in Widgetkit. Thanks for the help.

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