This post was originally posted on the end of one of my older topics, but since I have upgraded to VIP I have posted it here to try and get a quick response. Apologies for the double post. Original post can be view here:
www.artio.net/support-forums/joomsef/cus...r-config-url-problem

Here's the config:

JoomSEF 4.4.0 (VIP)
JoomSEF Virtuemart Extension 3.0.10 12. December 2012 (Says its up to date)
Virtuemart 2.0.18a
Cherry Picker 2.0.1 (Custom Fields)
Joomla 2.5.6

Virtuemart Files that have been updated:

Galt Cherry Picker recommends updating the following with a download from the Galt FAQ section of its site:
LINK TO GALT: www.galt.md/index.php?option=com_blog&a=96&Itemid=84

product.php
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/models/product.php
Product results will not be updated unless you use this file.

router.php
/components/com_virtuemart/router.php
When you have SEF turned On and after applying a filter results do not update -- you may need to use this version of router.php

JoomSEF Virtuemart Extension Cherry Picker Settings:
Add product type to URL: NO
Add product type ID to URL: NO
Add product type parameter name to URL: NO

The Problem
Cherry Picker is working fine now in terms of loading the products but the URL isn't SEO formatted, example:
/car-parts?limitstart=0&product=Wing+Mirror&make=Land+Rover&model=Defender&year=1994

Trace Information:
From: www.SOMEDOMAIN.com/
Referer: www.SOMEDOMAIN.com/car-parts?limitstart=...fender&year=1994
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.97 Safari/537.22

#1: call_user_func_array(Array, Array), /libraries/joomla/application/router.php line 425
#2: JRouter->_processBuildRules(JURI), /includes/router.php line 429
#3: JRouterSite->_processBuildRules(JURI), /libraries/joomla/application/router.php line 194

Any ideas? Got to get this complete by Monday if you could help solve this problem ASAP please!

mark

Hi,

I'm sorry for the delay, I was on the sick leave.

It seems that the Cherry Picker variables are added as non-SEF for some reason on your website. Navigate to JoomSEF -> Manage Extensions -> VirtueMart -> Common tab and check if there are any variables set as "Custom non-SEF variables". If there are, remove the ones for Cherry Picker.

Otherwise the Cherry Picker module is probably adding the variables to URL after it is already SEF. In that case there's not much we could do about it with our extension. As a paid service we could check this on your website and make a customization in the code to fix it.

No worries, good to know you're back.

I spoke with Galt Cherry Picker about this issue. Maks advised that if we were to have these URL's SEO'd by JoomSEF then this would cause millions of links due to the different combinations of the cherry picker.

The common tab in JoomSEF virtuemart ext has nothing set.

The ideal configuration based on your response and Maks is for JoomSEF to parse the links but not store them in the database. This would be for visitor ascetics only as each URL would have nofollow or canonical depending onn how this effects the rest of the site's SEO.

Mark

Yes, depending on how many filtering options you have there could be quite a large number of URLs generated.

Unfortunately, it's not currently possible to have JoomSEF generate SEF URL and parse it without storing it in the database. The only option this could currently work is to use Joomla's default router instead of JoomSEF's extension. Modifications in JoomSEF's core would be needed to achieve this.