I migrate sites for people from time to time from J1.5 to 2.5 or 3. In the past I have occasionally installed JoomSEF on the old 1.5 site, crawled, then imported the URLS into the new J3.0 site. This was in order to avoid having to go through and fix dozens of links that the former owner had hardcoded with the SEF urls rather than using the default Joomla URLS.

This time when I am trying to use this trick though it isn't working and I am wondering if anyone might know what I am missing in the process...

The old site is here: www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/lincoln15/

Please note it loads incredibly slowly which is one of the reasons I am moving it to 3.0. Be prepared to wait a long time for the old pages to load. The problem is in the template but we aren't trying to fix it since we are migrating...

The new J3.2 site is here: www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/lincoln3

If you look at the old site URLS you'll see that most of them are nicely written with things like /portfolio/domestic and /leasing/space-availabilities while on the new site they aren't doing it at all and most of the links are broken. This is happening AFTER I copied over all the SEF URLS from the old JoomSEF install to the new.

I'm sure I am just missing something but anyone know what it is?

Sincerely,
MaestroC