Order number is 1495 (not placed with this account, the other web developer for our company placed the order, I believe under username "rchamberland")

Joomla version 1.0.15, JoomSEF v2.2.6

Our site seems to be having issues with the JoomSEF component. JoomSEF seems to be creating multiple SEF URL's for each page. It is very common for us to see url's like 2.html (for the home page) or /individual-giving-16.html

Clearly, there is no practical reason to have 16 (!) SEF Urls for the "individual-giving" page.

Why is JoomSEF creating so many versions of the pages?

Hello,

that might be because you have "preventing duplicates" turned off and thus JoomSEF is not numbering the URLs, otherwise, you would most likely get something like:

individual-giving-2
individual-giving-3
...
(or if you have them, then on the contrary, you may need to turn prevent duplicated on)

Anyway, that is not the source of the problem - that is in the fact, that there exist several nonSEF URLs (often varying in some small details) for which JoomSEF can generate always same "individual-giving" URL.
You need to identify why there exists more nonSEF links to certain content and need to eliminate them, so they do not even appear in the page source. (often this is due to inconsisten internal linking or components source code, like when authors are rendomly using extra vartiables in the URLs, that however have no real effect)

More on this topis is both in FAQs and documentation -- look for preventing URL duplicates.

Exclude source info (Itemid) No
Reappend source (Itemid) No
Ignore multiple sources (Itemids) Yes

We purged all SEF Urls.

All of this was done before I even posted this, and still we get duplicates.

The documentation only refers to "Exclude source info", and I've already done that. I found another thread where they had to edit the core to fix this component, which is simply not acceptable for me. I don't see why core edits are necessary when the component itself could just ignore the offending part of the duplicate urls.

www.artio.net/support-forums/joomsef/joo...plicate-urls-joomsef

Hello,

Please, post some examples of the SEF URLs with their corresponding Real URLs - you can find them using Manage SEF URLs page in JoomSEF.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

en/4.html index.php?option=com_frontpage&lang=en&Itemid=1
en/accessibility.html index.php?option=com_content&id=41&lang=en&task=view&Itemid=55
en/accessibility/4.html index.php?option=com_content&id=14&lang=en&task=blogcategoryItemid=26

en/speech-language-pathology/english-for-new-canadians-11.html index.php?option=com_content&id=141&lang=en&task=view&Itemid=130

english/speech-language-pathology/english-for-new-canadians-12.html index.php?option=com_content&id=141&lang=english&task=view&Itemid=126

fr/speech-language-pathology/english-for-new-canadians-8.html index.php?option=com_content&id=141&lang=fr&task=view&Itemid=130

french/speech-language-pathology/english-for-new-canadians-11.html index.php?option=com_content&id=141&lang=french&task=view&Itemid=126

It seems there is a problem with the language code - lang variable should contain only the code (like en) not the whole language name. If you have System - Jfrouter plugin enabled, try disabling it.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team