I am currently in the process of transferring content from a Joomla 1.0 site (eqipped with JoomSef 1.2.4) into a Joomla 3.3 site equipped with JoomSEF 4.5.2. I am going to keep the same URL structure of site-name.com/article-title.html which I have done so just fine.

Questions:

1) In the Joomla 1.0 site the URL for the main blog that shows all the articles is site-name.com/news/index.php
However, in the new Joomla 3.3 site the URL for the main blog created as site-name.com/news (and site-name.com/news/index.php in the new site currently shows up as a 404)

What's the best route to take here? Do a 301 redirect from site-name.com/news/index.php to site-name.com/news ?

2) You may remember JoomSEF in Joomla 1.0 had an issue with creating duplicate URLs. So sometimes you would have site-name.com/article-title.html and site-name.com/article-title-2.html

Will I need to create 301 redirects for these duplicate URLs to point to the original in JoomSEF 4.5.2 for Joomla 3.3?

Thanks

Hi,

1) JoomSEF 4 no longer supports adding the "index.php" part to category links, so yes, the best way to handle these is to create a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new one. If you have too many of these URLs, you could create a RewriteRule in your .htaccess file to do this redirection automatically for all the URLs ending with /index.php.

2) Different SEF URLs pointing to the same content should be handled either by a canonical link or a 301 redirect. The 301 redirect is more preferred.