I am running the latest version of JoomSEF and have been using it for years so I am familiar with how to purge and recreate the SEF URLs.

I have a strange problem at interactiveonline.com/web-design/

I have the JoomSEF config setup to hide the section so instead it just shows the category.

Looking at the individual article URLs at interactiveonline.com/web-design/ most are rewritten as interactiveonline.com/web-design/ when they should be rewritten as in this example at interactiveonline.com/web-design/attract...-with-jquery-uniform

I've tried purging SEF URLs and Cache and then accessing each category you see at interactiveonline.com/blog showing "ALL" articles so each article can be rewritten to the JoomSEF database.

I initially had some problems with the category interactiveonline.com/web-design/ (and other categories) being rewritten at first but fixed it by finding the interactiveonline.com/web-design/ (or other category) SEF URL within JoomSEF and clicking Publish next to the entry so it was active

QUESTION: Why aren't all SEF URLs active by default?

But still the individual SEF URLs in the /web-design category don't get rewritten. In fact I don't even see those as rewritten URLs within JoomSEF.

I only have this problem with the /web-design category as you can see there are no probelms with other categories such as interactiveonline.com/joomla/

What is the difference between Purging SEF URLs and Clearing Cache within JoomSEF?

What exactly does "Update SEF URLs" do?

Any ideas how to fix it?

Hello,

The "active" state is used only when there is more than one nonSEF URLs for the same SEF URL - in that case the manually selected "active" URL is used, or if there is none manually selected, the active URL is selected depending on its priority assigned by the extension. Otherwise - if there is only one nonSEF URL for the SEF URL - the "active" option has no effect.

If you Purge SEF URLs, you will delete URLs from database. Clearing cache clears the cache of URLs created inside the Joomla's cache folder - you can find cache options in JoomSEF's configuration.

Update SEF URLs will recreate all the URLs in the database according to current configuration, so you don't need to purge them and wait until they are recreated. However it is a very good idea to backup the old URLs first before doing this, since the URLs are generated from backend and the results may sometime vary from the ones created in frontend.

As regards your problem - this is a very strange behaviour, could you please disable SEF completely on your site so I can take a look what the nonSEF URLs look like for the problematic articles? Thank you.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

I fixed the particular problem by just deleting the articles completely, re-importing them using JoomRSS, purging SEF URLs and then accessing the blog pages again.

Strange problem but I got it fixed.

Hello,

Glad to hear you managed to make it work.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Problem has appeared again with some newly created articles. I use JoomRSS to import articles from RSS feeds into Joomla.

Checkout interactiveonline.com/web-design and the following articles which JoomSEF is rewriting as interactiveonline.com/web-design

I cannot turn JoomSEF off since this is a live site but I did just to get the real links for each article so we can troubleshoot this.

20 Fonts Ideal For The iPhone And Other Mobile Screens
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

48 Hours Left! Here’s one more (easy) way to win
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

16+3 Brands You Should Consider For Your Next Startup
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

Giveaway! Free Custom 18×24 Poster Print
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

I notice all of the above are from the RSS feed feeds2.feedburner.com/prlamnguyen

I did notice this same behavior with other articles from another RSS feed at feeds2.feedburner.com/webdesignerdepot

One thing that puzzles me is the articles are just fine if JoomSEF is not on. If I turn JoomSEF on it rewrites the URLs with the URL of the category as interactiveonline.com/web-design


Also DocMan Categories do not get their URLs rewritten correctly. Docman gets rewritten at interactiveonline.com/docman/ but both categories you see there “Tax Forms” and “General” both get written as interactiveonline.com/docman/

Any ideas?

I think this might be a problem with JoomRSS. I tried ArticleGenerator instead and it doesn't give me these problems. I'll post further info with what I discover after further testing.