Hello.

JoomSEF is a good component but it requires a lot of work to make the things go fine.

The SEF URL for my Home Page (Com_Frontpage) it is exactly my domain, without any slash. I mean mydomain.com. That's the url you see if you click on the Home link, at the Main Menu and at the Top Menu.

But sometimes, I don't know why, Joomsef generates a new SEF URL for that url, using for that the last visited pages title or any other arbitrary names. I have to delete manually that SEF URL and clear the Joomsef cache to avoid that, because other case, if I don't delete that SEF URL, nor Google Page Rank nor many other analytic o statistic scripts recognizes my HOME PAGE, the one people uses to link to my site. A catastrophe!!!

Has anyone the same problem?

I don't think it may be an incompatibility issue, because I payed a support ticket to artio and they told me which components should be operated by Joomsef and wich ones not.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

My web: forovivienda.com (in Spanish)

After a while I discoved what was causing the problem:

In my server there is a directoy called /legislacion/ containing documents. That directory has exactly the same name that the menu item and that the sef url.

When the server looks for the sef url /legislacion/ expects an index file because the url match a server directory. If there is no index file, it response with the Forbidden status.


If you put an index file in the directory, the server response showing that index file (.html or .php it depends on the server configuration), not the real url corresponding to the sef url.

So the solution is either change the name of the sef url so that it don't match the directory name, or, change the name of the directory.

I think there is an .htaccess rule to prevent a related issue of Joomla SEO when you have a physical directory called '/content'

God.

I have read the forum in deep but i haven't found any solution for my problem. It seems that .htaccess has something to do. Somebody has solved similar problems commenting out certain lines. But in those cases ALL sef urls cause the 'Forbidden...' message to appear. Not only ONE of them.

In my case only ONE sef url produces the message. One menu item.

It is VERY VERY FRUSTRATING.

What the *#@Ç& can i do?

Hello,

I have cleared the cache and purged Sef url, 301, 404, etc..

Now, if I click on a Menu Item called 'Legislacion', which has the Sef url /legislacion/ I get a message like this:



Joomsef has a register for that url. The sef url corresponds to this non sef url:



If I load the non sef url on the browser it loads the correct page. (a Content Section Table)

Any ideas?


PD: I have had to purge all because I have had a serious problem with sef-urls. Suddenly they stop to work. I payed Artio for web support but they have just given me generic advices that better should be added to the documentation of Joomsef instead of use them to simulate a support service that it is useless. In fact they haven't supported ANYTHING. For me, like for many others, my website represents thousands hours of hard work, and don't like to see it down even for one minute. At last, the only way to solve problems is to purge, with unpredictable results, like this I talk about, url duplicates, manual links to be reviewed... I'm really wondering if JoomSEF does worth all this work.

Joomla 1.0.13
JoomSEF 2.2.6
AEC, CB, DocMan, and more.
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Everything worked fine, and suddenly ANY REAL URL generated by Joomla itself or the components I have installed stop working and causes a REDIRECT STATUS 301 to frontpage (The page I defined in case of 404 response).

I'm really desperate. Everything has been working fine and I haven't done any change.

Guests can't login, for instance. Anybody can't buy any product. Its a catastrophe. I really don't know what can i do.

I even can't establish properly what it is really happening. Need help even to enunciate the problem.

It seems that Joomsef doesn't use the registers it has in the DB for certain SEF urls, and nor the Real URL. Dont know.
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Please, help.

The site: forovivienda.com ¡¡Try to register!! It is in spanish, but I'm sure you will recognize the CBLogin Module, similar to Joomla's one. Or try to see the RSS pages. The typical RSS icons on the right side are linked (hard coded) to a feedburner URL out of Joomla. Why doesn't neither work now? Really annoying


I'm really dissapointed

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HINT:

Artio Support consider it is a incompatibility issue. It is very important to check the compatibility of EACH COMPONENT of Jommla, and JoomSEF. if it is not oficially supported, it is better to skip it at the Configuration Panel. Other case it may cause VERY strange things like the problem I described.

Once configured to be used only with compatible components, JoomSEF seems to work fine.