Hi

i am using joomla 1.5.15, virtuemart 1.13 and Joom SEF 3.9.3

I have been using this for a while with no issues and my URLS have been generating as expected and indexing on google nicely. My url form was website/store/manufacturer ( if reqd)/category/item name for example


www.vision2you.co.uk/store/ray-ban-glasses/rayban/rx5184

about a week ago URLS started to generate for new products added ( and now for old products ) with the term "paul-smith" in every URL in the place the "store" would normally be. this is obviously causing 404 errors and not doing much for optimisation

example

www.vision2you.co.uk/paul-smith/carrera-glasses/carrera/ca6132

the developer who originally istalled the Joom SEF plug in has flushed all the urls and regenerated however these all regenerated with the word "paul smith" in the url. He updated and upgraded the component and repeaetd only to have the same result. He therefore reinstalled a backup of our old URLS to avoid 404 errors from our google rankings and suggested i contact your support.

if you could please advise and go easy on me as i am not a developer!

web url is

www.vision2you.co.uk

many thanks
andy thorburn

Hi,

The first part of the URL is usually the menu item title, so either the Store menu item was removed or renamed from your menu, or there is some other problem.
In case that the Store menu item is still there, there is some other problem. Open the Manage Extensions page in JoomSEF, click the VirtueMart extension and select the Common tab. Is there some ID set in the "Override Itemid" field, or some text set in the "Custom Menu Title" field?

Hi. Thanks for the reply I can check this however would it be easier if you looked. I can send my login details by email or PM.

hi

here is a shot of the page you asked me to look at attached

andy

Hi,
The configuration looks all right. I've looked at your website and I didn't see any "Store" menu item there, which is probably the problem. You should be able to easily solve it if you set the "Custom menu title" option to "Store" (without the quotes) on the page you've attached as screenshot.

hi

thanks for that

this seems to fix a new category when it is created. how do i regenerate the urls that still have the incorrect 'paul smith" in the url

eg

www.vision2you.co.uk/paul-smith/boss-orange/boss-orange-bo-0001
thanks