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#2775 – Setting a main url

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Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:23 UTC

christianrieger

Hi!

Often a unique page of my website is accessed by different urls. I normally want to set the url with the main menu item id as the main url. Because then a navigation menu used on the right sidebar of my template shows me the active open menu item of the page. So I was going to find the duplicates a sef url and changed the main url of the non sef url by finding the main menu item id. So far this works and the sidebar navigation menu shows me the active open menu of the page. The problem is that the website is in development and I sometimes have to purge urls. Afterward all my set main urls are gone.

I've read about setting canonical tags in your docs. But I can't believe that I have to setup hundreds or thousands of canonical tags to fix this problem. So I decided to ask you first.

For better understanding here's an example:

sef url:

abi-check/1-analysis.html

duplicates:

index.php?option=com_k2&Itemid=148&id=323&lang=de&task=category&view=itemlist
index.php?option=com_k2&Itemid=3900&id=323&lang=de&layout=category&task=category&view=itemlist
index.php?option=com_k2&Itemid=3697&id=323&lang=de&layout=category&task=category&view=itemlist

I want to set the url
index.php?option=com_k2&Itemid=3697&id=323&lang=de&layout=category&task=category&view=itemlist
as the main url because of the main menu itemid 3697

When I do so the sidebar navigation menu works as it should and shows the active sub menu items.

Purging the urls makes the setup undone and the sidebar navigation menu no longer works as desired.

I never had this problem in the past. Maybe I have a wrong general setup to be changed?

Many thanks for your help in advance!

Christian

Sorry, I forgot the link to the site:

http://www.xxxx.de/abi-check/1-analysis.html

Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:47 UTC

christianrieger

In case you need super admin login:

http://xxxx.de/administrator/

htaccess login:

user: xxxx
PW: xxxx

Backend login:

user: xxxx
PW: xxxx

Wednesday, 28 September 2016 08:07 UTC

wb_weeblr

I've read about setting canonical tags in your docs. But I can't believe that I have to setup hundreds or thousands of canonical tags to fix this problem. So I decided to ask you first.

Canonical has nothing to do with that. It will not change anything to the page being rendered or the internals of Joomla (menu item management is purely an internal Joomla thing).

The problem is that the website is in development and I sometimes have to purge urls. Afterward all my set main urls are gone.

Yes, that's expected. "Main URL" selections cannot be carried over a purge, as basically URLs are (supposed) to not be the same after a purge.

There are 2 things you can do that may help:

1 - Track the real source, and find out why Joomla is creating links with incorrect Itemids (may be tricky). Sometimes it's just bad links in your content, where you did not specify an Itemid in the non-sef link. Many times it's modules or extensions simply not using any Itemid. There may not be any fix for that.
2 - You may be able to use the Itemid override added in last version, where you can force an Itemid to be used per component. See the "By components" tab of sh404SEF configuration for that. This may however break other links, so need to test.

Rgds

Wednesday, 28 September 2016 10:41 UTC

christianrieger

All the duplicates of non set urls are with k2 item ids for example from category list views of a summary page. So I assume the problem must have something to do with the k2 component.

I changed the sh404sef configuration with the k2 component from

"standard routine" and "overwrite set_ext" to

"use joomla router" and "use router.php with menu entry"

Hope that this is what you meant with 2?

The result is now to my needs. But I think that this setting can not consider all the title tags I've written with sh404sef. I still can see the title tags though I deleted all cache and purged urls of cdn cloudflare. And I'm wondering about this 'cause I always thought the setting "use joomla router" with a component makes sh404sef completely ignoring this component concerning set urls?

Regards
Christian

Wednesday, 28 September 2016 10:55 UTC

wb_weeblr

All the duplicates of non set urls are with k2 item ids for example from category list views of a summary page. So I assume the problem must have something to do with the k2 component.

Possibly, or any module or even direct links you have manually inserted in your content.

I changed the sh404sef configuration with the k2 component from

"standard routine" and "overwrite set_ext" to

"use joomla router" and "use router.php with menu entry"

Hope that this is what you meant with 2?

Absolutely not. Please revert back those settings to what they were. You have basically dsiabled sh404SEF for K2.

I mentioned: the Itemid override added in last version:

This what you can use to set a specific Itemid for your K2 pages, either all of them or only those which lacks an Itemid.

Rgds

Wednesday, 05 October 2016 15:30 UTC

christianrieger

Hi!

By chance I found out that a not installed osmap k2 plugin was the reason why the accordion sidebar menu didn’t show the active menu items. The assigned k2 duplicates don't have/didn't have any influence on this matter.

Thank you very much for your support!

Regards,
Christian

Wednesday, 05 October 2016 15:33 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Wow, that was far fetched! Thanks for letting us now, something to keep in mind!

Rgds

Thursday, 20 October 2016 05:34 UTC

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