Downlaod ID: 69a6966cbf5629255ad63f8589b75ed6 for VirtueMart extension

I am working with a small group to move a large Joomla VirtueMart site to a new server. The old site used sh404SEF (a 2009 version) and he SEF url's didn't work on the new server. Using JoomSEF made them work, so we bought JoomSEF 3.0 and the ViirtueMart extension for Joomla 1.5.23.

The new site tries to use a url like nphctest.com/index.php/Asthma/View-all-products.html to view products in the VirtueMart Asthma category. On our test server with JoomSEF and the VirtueMart extension, we just get a HTTP 404 Not Found error.

What do I have to do to get this url to work?

Thanks!

Hi,

Make sure that you have "Use Apache mod_rewrite" enabled in Joomla's global configuration.

I do have the "Use Apache mod_rewrite" enabled.

I am also getting an error "No input file specified"
when I clicking on a product category with the url nphctest.com/index.php/Asthma/View-all-products.html

Thanks!

Bill

Hi,

The SEF URLs shouldn't contain the /index.php/ part, so there is some problem with your configuration. It seems like JoomSEF is not enabled correctly. Please make sure that "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use Apache mod_rewrite" are enabled in your Joomla's Global configuration, System - ARTIO JoomSEF plugin is enabled, JoomSEF is enabled (in JoomSEF's configuration) and creation of new URLs is enabled (also in JoomSEF's configuration).

Thanks again for the list of things to check. I checked and they are all set correctly.

I did some checking and found out where the index.php is coming from. There is an article with pictures and links to the VirtueMart categories and the link had the index.php. Removing did not solve the problem.
The URL is now nphctest.com/Asthma/View-all-products.html and it gives me a 404 error. The index.php is

I am new to VirtueMart. The url in the link is set to Asthma/View-all-products.html in the Joomla editor. The existing site, using an old version of sh404SEF has working url's like

Do I need to add something like the"/vmchk/"

Thanks for all of your help.

Bill

Aah, so the URL is not coming from JoomSEF, but it's "hard coded" in the article. Then you need to make sure that you have the corresponding URL created in JoomSEF using the Manage SEF URLs page.
But better solution is to use the non-SEF URL like "index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=4&Itemid=15" in the article, so it's rewritten to SEF automatically.