#6087 – Generating URL's multiple times

Hi

1 - First, your screenshot shows that you are using an outdated version of sh404SEF. Please update to the current version right away.

2 -

as we are checking the SEF Urls then its generating many for a single url

It is important to understand that sh404SEF does not generate any URL. All those URLs are on your site, whether you have sh404SEF or not. sh404SEF only transforms those URLs from non-SEF to SEF.

The difference is that with sh404SEF, it shows you a list of URLs on your site. With Joomla only, you do not have a list of URLs so you cannot see them.

The other difference of course is that sh404SEF makes sure all duplicates that Joomla generates are not visible by search engines and visitors, and that all content has only one public URL.

3 -

we thought some setting is missing or incorrect and that's why it is generating the urls in bulk.

Again, sh404SEF does not generate any URL. As for settings, it depends a lot on which extensions you have on your site and what type of URLs they generate. Extensions like custom search, or Virtuemart can generate very many links on large stores.

Of course, all of this is valid if you are using the default settings. If not, we'd need to know any change you made.

Best regards

Hi

if you can provide any further details of URL generating in bulk.

Like I said before, there is no generation in bulk. Those are just the URLs on your website.

Again, sh404SEF does not generate any URL. As for settings, it depends a lot on which extensions you have on your site and what type of URLs they generate. Extensions like custom search, or Virtuemart can generate very many links on large stores.

Maybe you can start by replying to this: which extension do you use. Joomla articles would not generate that many URLs unless you have many tens of thousands of articles.

Best regards

Hi

It seems Virtuemart (or Virtuemart overrides in your template) are causing links to be created with various Itemids (menu item id) in URLs. sh404SEF correctly groups all those duplicate non-sef URLs under the same SEF, as explained previously) but all those duplicates generated by your extensions are indeed being stored so that they can be recognized later on.

Did you create/add a module or add templates overrides for the user Virtuemart control panel for instance? I have not seen this happening with standard Virtuemart installation so something is generating those bad URLs with different Itemids on your site.

Best regards

Hi

Yes, it would be a good idea to do that first. I have not seen anything like that before, unless you have also many tens of thousands products in your Virtuemart store as well.

Best regards