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#3119 – How to redirect every url after a certain URL to a default page but retain the URL

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Friday, 06 January 2017 12:04 UTC

chizuoka

How to redirect every url after a certain URL to a default page but retain the URL for example...

www.domain.com/s/abc
www.domain.com/s/def
www.domain.com/s/ijk

will always go to a non-sef url
www.domain.com/index.php?option=com_k2&Itemid=770&id=13&lang=en&layout=category&task=category&view=itemlist

but retain the URL coming in... sort of a custom 404 page for everything that starts with
www.domain.com/s/

Reason being we are trying to make use of the history API in browsers.

Friday, 06 January 2017 16:19 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

I am afraid this is not something we can do. Best and simplest is to handle this in your .htaccess file. You probably don't want these pages go to a non-sef URL, but instead to the SEF equivalent?

Rgds

Sunday, 08 January 2017 14:18 UTC

chizuoka

i mean like it loads a particular page in joomla... but retains the URL. Its primarily for a search page so that any thing added to the last end i could use as the search param....

Sunday, 08 January 2017 14:21 UTC

chizuoka

could you advice what i could do if sh404sef cant do it...

Tuesday, 10 January 2017 05:22 UTC

chizuoka

Hi... i realize that it should be a kind of custom 404 page. While the usual custom 404 page gets EVERY broken link.... how can i customize it such that only links that begin with domain.com/s goes to this particular 404 page?

Thanks.

Tuesday, 10 January 2017 14:32 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

As already stated in my reply:

I am afraid this is not something we can do. Best and simplest is to handle this in your .htaccess file.

Rgds

Wednesday, 11 January 2017 05:16 UTC

chizuoka

Would you be able to advice the syntax i should be sending the page to ... do i use the non-sef URL or something else? Sorry for the questions because Im not familiar with Joomla internal url system

Wednesday, 11 January 2017 09:06 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

We cannot provide support for server setup, such as .htaccess, as .htaccess is not "Joomla internal" or sh404SEF, it's a server thing. So you should only use SEF URLs to do the redirect, as your web server does not know Joomla either.

I would suggest you turn to a website integrator maybe?

Rgds

Friday, 13 January 2017 03:57 UTC

chizuoka

thanks for the patience, perhaps you can enlighten me how SH404SEF shows a 404 page when the page does not exist but the URL is not changed, once i understand i probably can hack around a bit to have it do what i need?

Friday, 13 January 2017 10:36 UTC

wb_weeblr

SH404SEF shows a 404 page when the page does not exist but the URL is not changed

The URL is not supposed to change when a 404 happens. If you make a redirect, as you plan, then it is NOT a 404.

A 404 is not about the content displayed. It's about the HTTP status code of the web server response. sh404SEF takes over the entire Joomla code to send the appropriate HTTP status code, and display the page. I'm sorry but I don't see how you could handle reproducing that process, unless you are a PHP programmer and want to spend quite some times uner the hood of Joomla and sh404SEF, which are rather complex pieces of software.

Instead, what you appears to want is to create a redirect for some pages. Again, this must be done in your .htaccess file. Create a Joomla page with whatever content you want to display for those URLs, find its URL (/my-info-page.html), and redirect those pages starting with /s/ to /my-info-page.html.

If you can't do it yourself, maybe Joomla forums can help, or you can also hire a freelancer or an integrator.

Rgds

Monday, 16 January 2017 09:28 UTC

chizuoka

Thanks.. i will try ..

Monday, 16 January 2017 10:07 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Best of luck. 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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