Hello,

Our site runs with joomsef and caching (not de caching plugin, but the caching enabeld on the global setting).

a few months ago we had the problem index.php appeared in de sef url, purging the cache fixed that problem but it came back after a few hours.
We decided to update our virtuemart to 1.1.5 and the problem went away.

We recently updated to the latets joomsef version and joomsef virtuemart plugin and the problem occurs again.
We changed settings but nothing works.

For now we disabeld the caching and the problem is gone, but the site is slow....

Do you have a suggestion on what we can do?

Order ID: 00013797
Joomla: 1.5.22
Virtuemart: 1.1.5
Joomsef: 3.7.5
Joomsef virtuemart plugin: 2.0.34
JoomFish: 2.1.5

Website: www.gereedschappelijk.nl

Best regards,
Bastiaan Wiltvank

Hello,

After researching the problem, testing serveral settings in Joomsef and even adjusting the setting for cgi on the server, I think I found the problem.

In one of our menus on the site we had a link to an article which was asigned to a category/section.
This article had links to other articles in the same category/section.
There was no direct link on the site to the category.

The category name of that specific category returned in the faulty urls.

After disabling that menu item the problem went away and the site is running for more than 10 ours.

Can this be a bug in Joomsef?

Regards,
Bastiaan

Hello,

It looks like it might also be a problem when you have a disabled menu item with the same name as a enabled menu item which is linked to non existing component (deinstalled).

Cheers,
Bastiaan

Hello,

JoomSEF in default never adds "index.php" to URLs. This can only occur in case, you configure the related component not to use JoomSEF default handler, but to use an own router (or Joomla built in default router).

There may be some problem in case of duplicate items in menu in specific cases, but I think it shall not relate to appearance of "index.php" in URL.