Hi,

in our setup, the SEF URLs are not created automatically: I create an article, give it a meaningful alias, save it and immediately after saving I browse to the expected SEF URL -> 404 Category not found!

But: When I search for the article, it will be found and klicking on the search result will bring me to the - now working - SEF URL that was broken just seconds ago. It seems, that searching for a page triggers the creation for URLs. But what we need is SEF URL creation at article creation/save time!

We are running Joomla! 1.6 with newest JoomSEF.

Joomla! SEO Settings are:

• SEF URLs: yes
• Use Apache mod_rewrite: yes
• Adds Suffix to URL: yes
• Unicode Aliases: no
• Include Site Name in
• Page Titles: no

Selected JoomSEF Settings:

• JoomSEF enabled: yes
• Disable creation of new SEF URLs?: no
• Use Title or Alias?: Title Alias
• File suffix: -none-
• Use Cache: no

Anybody know how to fix that?

[For the Artio staff: Our order ID is 15931]

Thanks

frank

Hello,
the problem might be, that the JoomSEF will create the SEF URL at the moment, the link to the content is first time seen on frontend.

So if you save the new article and test the URL rightaway, it will not yet exist at that moment. When you reload the frontend and try then, then it probably will exist.

This is how JoomSEF currenly works.

You mean reloading the frontpage? This did never help. I've found only two ways of make a SEF URL to start to exist:

1. link to the new page from some other page (as soon as opens the linking page, the SEF URL starts to life)
2. search for the page

frank

Reloading frontpage would help only if the page would be linked from there. (or any menu)

Basically the two ways you describe are correct. It is also possible to use sitemap for this purpose. (e.g. Xmap is a good component for this)

We plan to add possibility of URL "pregeneration" (= creating SEF URL for it BEFORE it is linked from somewhere) to JoomSEF. However, this process may be quite time demanding.