#5688 – Correct SEF for tags

Hi

/tag/tag-title is what you should get and this is what i get with a standard Joomla installation.

The only possible issue I see here is that you non-sef link does not have an Itemid. Do you have a menu item (even if a hidden one) that links to those tags?

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Hi

This does not need fixing as it does not happen on other sites. We need to find out what's causing it on your site and not others.

The first thing to do is be sure that com_tag is NOT set to "Use Joomla router" and restored the default value of "Use default handler". If that does not restore behavior then we'll have to log in and try find what's happening.

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OK, where can I see a tag link? on which page?

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Hi

Somethings's odd: I found just one link, /en/tag/resume.html yet this link

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And even stranger: no tag has been defined?

[xxxx]

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Where those "Useful links" defined? don't seem to be a module?

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Things do not seem consistent: /en/tag/10.html is supposed to be "Visit Canada" but if I look at com_tags, tag width ID= 10 is "Tourist".

Anyway, I deleted the URL /en/tag/10.html in sh404SEF and the link is still there exactly as it was before on the front end. However it does not show anymore in the SEF URL manager.

So that link on your front site is not created by sh404SEF?

I disabled the cache, you cannot debug with it.

Yet there's still a mix up due to caching I think. The tag link is actually correctly created and found in the URL list:



At first I thought the missing menu item has to do with it, so I added &Itemid=408 to the non-sef URL in the template, cleared everything, reloaded the page: the /en/tag/10.html link was back it's not the one entered in the template. It does not have the &Itemid=408 nor the rest of the non-sef URL (&tag_list_language_filter=en-GB).

So I searched the SEF URL list for "Tourist" and sure enough I found the SEF URLs properly created. As the non-SEF URL now has &Itemid=408, the link is shortened to /en/tourist.html

I then removed the &Itemid=408 and I could see that:

- /en/tag/10.html is still created (but without the tag_list_language_filter parameter in the non-sef URL)
- the correct URL is created, /en/tourist.html but the non-sef URL still has the &Itemid=408 in the non-SEF URL, even though deleted it

and the template is never using the correct URLs generated by sh404SEF.

so I took the last possible test and disabled sh404SEF: the template behaves (nearly) the same: instead of /en/component/tags/tag/tourist, it uses: https://xxxx.network/en/component/tags/tag/10.html

So I'm not sure exactly what's going on here but I don't think the problem is related to sh404SEF as it happens the same when sh404SEF is disabled.

NB: I enabled back sh404SEF and enabled back Caching in Joomla config.

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Hi

I did not really say anything about menus, they don't matter. I said the same problem happens when sh404SEF is disabled.

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BTW, even though I removed the &Itemid=408 in the non-sef URL in the "Useful links" module, so as to restore site as it was, you should add it back and the same for all your non-sef tag links.

While checking this, I noticed there were plenty of non-sef with varying Itemids created for most tags as Joomla is trying to find the correct Itemid to use. Better set it up yourself.

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