3.7.6 seems to work for me, sort off...
I doesn't encode the URL's however... it replaces the "weird" characters
aka: Üöőó becomes uooo
I haven't tried for characters like άλαδιαδικά

I tried, and the URL is blank AKA it points to the Frontpage...

On my website I have a link to: слот-игри/
Obviously Joomla can’t handle this, so I installed the Unicode slugs SEF plugin to fix this: extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/10275

But now I noticed that the URL in the HTML source is also слот-игри/ when this should be D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8/ . How can I setup JoomSEF in such a way that the URL is displayed as слот-игри/ in the browser URL bar, but in the HTML code looks like D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8/ ?

So in short:

I want the link in the HTML source to be the decoded version of the URL AKA "D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8/". So anyone or anything that takes a look at my webpage without using UTF8 can still follow all the links.
Is this possible with JoomSEF?

I tried putting "D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8/" in the JoomSEF SEF URL's but it didn't work.

George

Still no news on this?

Good questions.

I have been looking for a solution to this for a long while.

I'm also looking for a way to make the meta data, like the keywords and the description unique for every pagination page as well.

If you figure any of it out, please let me know.

With kind regards,
George

david wrote:


Hi David,

Any news about this yet?
I'm still looking for a fix.

Kind regards,
George

Hi david,

In addition to this. Could there be a feature where I can set a "wildcard" for the metadata used for the pagination pages?
So the metadata for Page-2 get's set to for instance:
TITLE<the title used in Page-1> %mywildcard
DESC<the description used in Page-1 %mywildcard

So I'll end up with:
My Blog category menu item called "car racing".
www.mydomain.com/news/car-racing/
Will be the first pagination page, with the following meta data:
<title>Car racing news</title>
<meta name="description" content="All the best news about car racing" />
<meta name="keywords" content="car, racing" />
Using the a wildcard " - Page - % " or something a long those lines

Page-2, www.mydomain.com/news/car-racing/page-2/ will have the following meta data:
<title>Car racing news - Page 2</title>
<meta name="description" content="All the best news about car racing - Page 2" />
<meta name="keywords" content="car, racing, - Page 2" />

etc...

The keywords can be optional.
In general it would be nice if I could tell JoomSEF what to add for the Title, Description and the Keywords. So I have better configurations options.

Kind off like the "Page text" option in the general JoomSEF configuration:
JText::_('PAGE')-%s

George

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply.
Hmm a few weeks you say.
Will it be fixed in this new version then? If so, I might just wait it out.

George

Hi david,

Setting it to handle it as non-SEF, really isn't an option. Can you give me an ETA on when this will be fixed or in which file I should look myself so I can give it a go myself?

George

Hi David,

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

The SEF URL: section/category/pagina-11/

The 'real' URL: index.php?option=com_content&id=34&layout=default&limitstart=50&view=category&Itemid=59

There seems to be only one pagina-11 SEF URL.

Hi,

I'm using:
Joomla 1.5.18
JoomSEF 3.6.4

With the following settings (only listing the once that are important as far as I can figure out):
Manage extention -> Content:
Extention:
Add layout to URL: Never
Show Category: Yes
Show Section: Yes
Default layout: Blog (doesn't really matter because I'm using Never)
Common:
Items per page: 50

Menu item (Articles » Category):
Links: 50
Pagination: Show

Global Configuration:
Site:
List Length: 50

Now if I browse to my category menu item and I check the bottom of the page I see the pagination links:
Number 1 is selected
Number 2 has a mouse over however text of '2' but the links to it is ../.../pagina-11/
Number 3 ../.../pagina-11/ and so on...

Am I doing something wrong, settings wise?
Should I update to the latest version?

I searched this forum for solutions, but I only found post where people have the same problem but couldn't solve it.

**EDIT**

Shouldn't this be solved after 3.4.2?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

George

What did you use to create the file?
If you copied the file and then uploaded it, it could have a wrong Unicode.

You can fix this by:
Creating a new file in Dreamweaver.
Copying all the code from the old file in this new file
Saving it, using "Save as".
And make sure that the "Unicode Normalization Form:" is set to "C (Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition)"

If that doesn't work, download a different editor, for instance Notepad++ and see if there are any chars infront off

**wrong edit**

Had a fair amount of mail correspondence with the host and eventually they sorted it by doing a recursive directory ownership reset.

Errors have gone away and it all seems to be working.

If you look at your HTML source code:



There's a break that shouldn't be there on line 3 after: Not sure, but my guess is that that's the cause of your problem.

I'm getting the following errors when I take a look into the control panel:

Warning: <mydomain>/public_html/administrator/cache/84b083723ff96a2ba1e61ac2bb7bb7dd.spc is not writeable in <mydomain>/public_html/libraries/simplepie/simplepie.php on line 1779

Warning: <mydomain>/public_html/administrator/cache/84b083723ff96a2ba1e61ac2bb7bb7dd.spc is not writeable in <mydomain>/public_html/libraries/simplepie/simplepie.php on line 1779

I found the following topic where someone seems have to same problem: www.artio.net/support-forums/joomsef-pay...url-generated/page-2
But turning Joomla cache on or off doesn't make any difference.

I'm working with latest JoomSEF 3.6.5
Joomla 1.5.18
FTP layer turned on, host is setup that it wont work in any other way.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi David,

Thanks for the fast replies!

That's a shame. I know I'm asking for much here, but could you give an ETA on how long this will take? Or is there an option that you can create a patch that just adds this option so I can use it?

George

Great,

I removed the meta data for the frontpage from the configuration.php and I put the frontpage meta data in the JoomSEF meta management system.

Now however I'm stuck with the following:
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />

On pages that don't have any meta data, is there an option to disable the generation of the tags completely?

Hi,

I'm having an issue with my meta data management.

I'm using:
Joomla Version: 1.5.18
JoomSEF version: 3.6.4

I created a blog (a menu item with the following type: Articles » Category / Blog and with the name CARS).

I noticed that my blog url turned into example.com/cars/blog/. I don't want /blog/ added to my URL so I'm used the following settings:

Manage Extensions -> Content -> Extension: All layout to URL "Never".

That sorted that.

Then I noticed that my meta data for the blog was the same as the meta data for my frontpage. Optimizing my site for SEO, this is definitely something I do NOT want.

In order to sort this out I set the Enable MetaData generation to Yes as well as the Rewrite keywords and description.

Doing this however made JoomSEF change ALL my meta data for ALL my pages, so I went back into the Manage Extensions -> Content bit and took a look at the "Meta Tags" tab. In here I put "Add category to page title" and "Generate description/keywords" to NO.
Then I removed all the "generated" meta data that showed up in the "Manage Meta Tags" manager.
This left me with just my own metadata and I was able to set my meta data for my CARS blog.

Then I created some new articles and I forget to put in the meta data in to one article and I didnt want to put meta data in another. This however left me with 2 articles with the same meta data as the frontpage.

Just as with the my CARS blog, this is an issue. Is my setup wrong? Am I doing something wrong? Or is what I'm trying to do not possible in the current version?

With kind regards,

George

Solved it. Yay me!

Apparently it's a known bug in Joomla! 1.5.x and a fix will be implemented in Joomla! 1.6.x.

For no though you can try the following plugin: extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/10275

Anyone?