That fixed it!

The format of the non-sef url you gave worked a treat.

The URL was created manually, I have disabled automatic URL creation completely.

I haven't had problems creating URLs manually until now.

Is there any more information I can provide for the problem to be diagnosed?

Hi,

My website is mostly ZOO, but I needed to create a separate Joomla article in the article manager. I linked it to a menu item and the original non-sef URL should look as follows in JoomSEF:

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=392

However this is what I get on the front-end:

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=392&catid=33

For some reason, &catid=33 is being appended onto the end of the URL, and the SEF url isn't loading at all. I have spent a while trying to figure out what I am doing wrong but it hasn't helped.

Does anybody know what the root cause might be? Any answers will be much appreciated.