I'm in the middle of upgrading from Joomla 1.5.25 and Virtuemart 1.1.9 to Joomla 2.5.3 and Virtuemart 2.0

I've purchased the VM extension with JoomSEF 4, however the link structure has appeared to have changed, as it doesn't match the old SEF structure from VM1.1.9? I've done several mods to get it to work, including mirroring the old config to the new, but still no luck. Plus, multiple categories won't redirect either. Has anyone else experienced this and any possible solutions? Thanks

Hi,
Could you please post some example of SEF URL from Joomla 1.5 and new SEF URL from Joomla 2.5 and their corresponding Real non-SEF URLs from JoomSEF's URLs Manager?
And what exactly do you mean by multiple categories redirect? What is expected and actual behaviour?
Thank you.

SEF URL from 1.5: /view-cart/axis-labs -> index.php?option=com_virtuemart&manufacturer_id=42&page=shop.browse

2.5: /view-cart/axis-labs -> redirects to main VM page /view-cart/manufacturer/axis-labs however redirects to it correctly. It's very important we maintain the link structure for SEO.

The view-cart comes from a menu alias. The menu has the link index.php?option=com_virtuemart and is set to the VM components.

By multiple categories redirect I mean that before /view-cart/category/product would redirect to the product, regardless of which
of the product's categories (for instance I could redirect view-cart/categorya/product AND
view-cart/categoryb/product), however the new system will only redirect one of the categories (e.g. categorya but not categoryb).

I'm happy to PM direct physical examples as well, if that helps? Thanks alot for your help

I'd really appreciate a response to this. It's basically a either a configuration issue (i hope) or a major flaw with ARTIO's VM2.0 extension addon for J2.5. I understand theres only a certain level of support but this is also a paid product and I have clients and deadlines I have to meet. I'd be happy to pay for premium support if I didn't think this was an actual issue with the software because its such a new territory and theres only minimal aids available for upgrading JoomSEF and even less for Virtuemart. (I mirrored the previous configuration setting I had with J1.5/VM1.1.9 on my J2.5/VM2 setup but I believe VM's core for handling SEF has changed)

If I have to pay for premium support, that's fine, but I'd like to know either way as I need this resolved ASAP, thank you

I've just checked and our VM extension doesn't add the word "manufacturer" to URLs. Are you sure that you have our extension correctly installed and that VM is set to be handled by JoomSEF?
For multiple categories handling, there is an option in our extension called "Ignore multiple categories", by default it's disabled so for one product in two categories two SEF URLs with both categories should be created. But it also depends on how VirtueMart 2 generates its non-SEF URLs, so maybe there was some change there.

As regards the paid support, you can purchase 1 hour of our Joomla support time and we can check the problem directly on your server and either fix it right away (if it's just a configuration issue) or offer a solution: www.artio.net/e-shop/support-services/joomla-related-support-1h