I've just installed the latest version of JoomSEF on my 1.0.13 Joomla existing community.

I read all the documentation, and have worked all all bugs except for one that I can see:

There are some link floating around the web out there to my pre-SEF URLs. These links don't have the \"index.php?\" in them, but still include the component tag in the url, for instance:

www.MyDomain.com/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,33/p,12

When people click on those links, they get to my site and see a completely white page. :(

I would use the custom URL redirect tool in your admin panel to create a redirect manually, but it tells me that it only accepts the Urls starting with \"index.php\".

I looked all through the JoomSEF config settings, and I have told it everywhere to leave the old urls where they are... Just add new SEF urls too.

(For instance, I have set both \"Redirect nonSEF URLs to SEF?\" & \"Use Moved Permanently redirection table?\" to Yes.)

What else can I do to allow those old Links to work?

Thanks in advance,
Luke Parker

I really need your help here... I have been over the documentation and can't find a word about this, even though it's clearly something that should be covered well in your FAQs and elsewhere.

I'll make it easier so others might know the answer:

How do I redirect an url like this:

content/view/5/6

to go to my sef page?

Please, anyone?

OK, so we're on Day Four and no one is answering anything at all. The only time Admins have even logged on in that time is to ASK A USER FOR HELP... !

If Artio's aim is to make any form of income at all, I would advise them to actually speak to us, the prospective clients. Otherwise it appears Artio's aim is to go out of business.

My problem is quite minor and I know they'd be able to help me... It's a shame that I'm going to have to uninstall JoomSef this short of being able to use it forever.

Artio's loss... I've never yet used a product like this without donating to it's developers.

Hello,

there might be actually several combined problems in your case:

1. make sure JoomSEF SEO is off for components that are not supported and do not work as supposed (e.g. I do not know if com_mojo is compatible with JoomSEF)

2. if you are experiencing URLs in Joomla native SEO format such as \"content/view/5/6\", that means they are probably hard-coded somewhere. (e.g. in menu items that are created as URL). JoomSEF works only on links that are parsed through sefRelToAbs functions (that is Joomla standard). If some links are not parsed through this function they will not get SEOized

3. www.MyDomain.com/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,33/p,12 is not a JoomSEF SEO URL, it is Joomla SEO url; I am not sure if the link is correct (especially the /component/ part seems weird, is the site root www.MyDomain.com/component/?); does this link work if Joomla SEO is off? It seem more likely like some error in the component then in SEO; to find the reason, I recommend to turn error reporting on and check apache error logs

Ah, good to here from you... I really didn't want to uninstall.

From those 3 choices I'd guess my main issue is #2... The menu hard-wired links.

If I go into my admin panel MainMenu for instance and look at the location of a component item, it is like you say, but I don't seem to be able to change it... Wrapper links and URL links it will allow me to edit right there, but not in component item links.

I guess it is not vital to make the main component pages SEF, many are behind a closed membership area anyway. I'd really like to know my options though, such as if there is a way to delete and re-add them as SEF urls, or if I can just have JoomSEF set to ignore those pages altogether.

As for the MojoBlog, It's working great if I use custom URLs... So right when I post a new one it will create an entry named \"reviews/4.html\" - and then I run into JoomSEF and change that really fast to \"reviews/slug-name.html\" instead. -Unfortunately I think the automatic Pinging functionality is telling all those ping sites like technorati to come and look at 3.html however... So if you've got an idea of how to fix that problem I'd be very thankful.

Cheers,
Luke Parker

Hello,

ad 2) well, links that are created as \"component\" links should SEOized automatically; there you should not see links like \"content/view/5/6\", unless you have set an option \"no cache\" for the component in JoomSEF configuration (then the URLs for given components act as Joomla built-in SEO); if there is something else, I am not able to tell you more without seeing this

ad 3) well, the mojo thing would probably require a special extension that would create the URLs like \"reviews/slug-name.html\" right avay, without a need of manual changing it. Anyway, if you do it as you described and choose to store the 301 redirection on changing the links, both should work, where \"reviews/4.html\" is automatically 301 redirected to \"reviews/4.html\".