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#2814 – SEF URLs

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Friday, 07 October 2016 10:35 UTC

baz9969

Hi again,
Thank you for all your previous help, hopefully this will be the last question I have for you.

Following on from my previous questions ticket:2808 and ticket:2810 I have sorted out my redirects to go onto my htaccess and I was wondering if I should delete the SEF URLS in the URL Manager before I add the redirects to my htaccess file? I have deleted the 404s and Aliases, but I forgot to ask about the SEF URLs.

Many thanks, Baz.

Friday, 07 October 2016 13:34 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Which URLs do you want to delete?

Assuming you have a redirect from /old-page to /new-page in your .htaccess, it indeed serve no purpose to have a /old-page as a SEF in the URL manager. This record will never be hit, as the request will be redirected to /new-page by your .htaccess, before Joomla has a chance to look at the request.

Rgds

Friday, 07 October 2016 13:42 UTC

baz9969

Hi there,

The urls I was thinking about were the ones that had been populated in the URL manager, I haven't yet added the 301 redirects to the .htaccess, I wanted to make sure there were no conflicts with sh404sef first, but if I understand correctly, there wouldn't be as the redirects on the htaccess file would overrule the urls in sh404.

I want to start again so sh404sef has a clean slate, I have deleted the 404s and aliases from sh404, and I wanted to know if I could delete the urls in the URL manager as well, so sh404 will only replicate the live URLS found on the site.

I hope that makes sense, regards, Baz.

Friday, 07 October 2016 13:49 UTC

wb_weeblr

The urls I was thinking about were the ones that had been populated in the URL manager, I

in the URL manager as well, so sh404 will only replicate the live URLS found on the site.

This is what I don't understand. How can these URLs already be in the URL manager, if they are not "live" URLs. URLs found in the URL manager are recorded as they are displayed/used by Joomla. If they are in the URL manager, it means they are found somewhere on your site. Unless they are leftover from some times ago, before you made some changes to URLs construction settings?

Rgds

Friday, 07 October 2016 14:29 UTC

baz9969

Hi there,

Sorry, yes I think I understand now, the urls are just the live urls on the website, it's just that I had noticed a few urls which don't exist when you see the website as a visitor, urls such as ...table/blog/feed/atom/.

My website has 43 live pages, and by live pages I mean the ones that are visible to human visitors, and yet my URL manager says I have 50+ and this is what is confusing me and making me want to start again. I have now added my redirects to the htaccess, so I guess I now have to redirect these unknown to me urls in the url manager to another page.

In essence I don't know what is the right way to do things now, hence my asking if I should delete all the URLs and start again.

Thanks, Baz.

Friday, 07 October 2016 14:44 UTC

wb_weeblr

the website as a visitor, urls such as ...table/blog/feed/atom/.

Because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. Many times, this would be URLs used in the breadcrumbs. Even if you don't display a breadcrumb, Joomla will actually compute the required URLs for each part of the breadcrumb, which means they will end up in the database.
The you have some other URLs for rss feeds, atom feeds, etc login, registration and passwrod reset, even if you don't have login modules,etc

But 50+ is very small, that's not going to be a problem

THe thing to consider is that even if you delete them, which you can, if Joomla requires again their creation, they will come back.

Rgds

Friday, 07 October 2016 14:55 UTC

baz9969

Hi there,
Brilliant, thank you for clarifying everything for me, I will see how everything goes and manage accordingly.
Many thanks for your help, all the best, Baz.

Friday, 07 October 2016 15:10 UTC

wb_weeblr

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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