#755 – Errors after installing sh404sef

Hi, Soon after I installed sh404sef, I got a mail from Google Web Master Central saying "Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on http://xxxx.lk/" From online forums I understand this is due to the plugin and could be fixed by doing some setting changes. Please can you help me with step by step guidance on what needs to be done? Thanks

Hi,

Are you using some plugin for compression/concatenation of JS and CSS files?
If so, and that plugin is using the cache folder you have to exclude the relative subfolders in robots.txt

Regards

Hi Dimitris,

No we don't use any other plugins - what else could be the reason?

Thanks

Hi,

This might be coming from your template, as well. Which template are you using?

Could you please provide us with superadmin credentials to your website. You can create a temporary account, and delete it afterwards, but it must have superuser level.

Regards

Hi,

Investigating further I see that two modules and a component are using the component, modules and cache folders for their css, js. These folders by default are NOT supposed to be accessible from google BOT.

Regards

Hi Dimitris,

Thanks - I would greatly appreciate your help.
You can use this credentials
xxxx.lk/administrator
username xxxx
password xxxx

Thanks.

Hi Dimitris,

Thanks for looking in to this - unfortunately i'm not a web developer so finding it hard to understand your explanation.
Please could you explain this a little further as to how i can fix this?

Thanks a million.

Hi,

You will need to edit the robots.txt (download it with FTP client and edit it with an editor, then re upload it) and allow these folders:

/​cache/​widgetkit/*
/​cache/​mod_pwebcontact/*
/​modules/​mod_suppliercat/​css/​*
/​components/​com_findproviders/​css/​*
/​modules/​mod_register_box/​scripts/*
/​components/​com_findproviders/​scripts/​*

Regards

Thanks so much Dimitris.You have been very helpful. Excellent service. Thanks again

Hi there,

Here you go - i had these URL book marked because I thought my issue could be similar.But i could be wrong as i'm not a savvy developer.But one thing i can certainly say is that my site has been live for some time now and this is the first time i got the message - a day after i installed the plugin.

Hope this helps. I'm very impressed by your proactive approach..

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=615&t=633550&start=30

One more SEO question. These forums talk about allowing /templates/ in robot,txt
Should I be doing this as well?

"Note: Since July 2014 the lines for /templates/ and /media/ have been removed from robots.txt, so this article mostly applies to sites installed before that date (thanks to Sander Potjer for the tip). However, you may have more resources that should be unblocked, especially if you use extensions that combine your resources (JCH-Optimize, JBetolo, Scriptmerge, etc.)"

Thanks

Hi,

One more SEO question. These forums talk about allowing /templates/ in robot,txt

Should I be doing this as well?

By default Joomla’s robots.txt is ALLOWING the template folder, so you don’t have to do something more here. The way this file works is that by default every folder is marked as allowed except the entries that specifically stated otherwise (disallow).

Regards

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