#7315 – Cannot get new profile link in frontend

Hi

I installed Easysocial component that has a feature to write profile link as following: domain.com/PERMALINK ; Permalink is a field value that is set in user profile setting on frontend. So user can change this value every time.

I'm not sure how such a feature would be compatible with a database-backed SEF extension.

The issue is that when user changes the value of permalink, the profile link does not change, the old permalink stays unless you purge sef urls in SH404SEF backend.

Yes, that's the entire point of using sh404SEF: URLs on your site should absolutely never change unless you actually change it yourself.

i tried to make purge working automatically in Advanced tab by setting Url cache handler to Shared memory and configured shLib plugin to Memcached, placing host and port of my hosting, but old permalink still staying after change

This is unrelated to what you're trying to do, it's only caching, it's not related to the actual storage of URLs.

Is there another way to achieve this, if possible without purging all Urls, except user profile links?

I can't think of any aside from entirely bypassing sh404SEF for EasySocial, that is setting it to "Use Joomla router" under the "By component" tab of sh404SEF configuration. There are minor side effects to that, namely that in doing so you enable back the Joomla router, which does not trigger 404 for all URLs it should, at least in Joomla 3.

PS: Please note that the same issue happens when trying to change the permalink of a group, page or event in Easysocial: the links of group/page/event do not change in frontend unless purging sef urls.

That's not an issue, it's exactly how it should be for best SEO performance. URLs should never change once they are indexed, even if you change the title of a group or page. You can change the title, just don't change the URL.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Hi

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