I have installed joomsef free onto a new website, but for some reason, Joomla SEF URLs are being created as well as Joomsef URLs. For example, a page gets a sef URL, but then does not show in the urls created by Joomsef. The problem is that those URL's seem to take preference over the Joomsef URL's, even if I custom create a new sef URL in Joomsef.
What happens is the url is redirected some how to the url created by Joomla.

How can I force Joomla to stop creating sef URL's, and only to use sef URL's made in and by Joomsef?

In the configuration of Joomsef I have 'Redirect Joomla SEO to JoomSEF' set to 'yes', and also with 'Parse Joomla SEO links'.
Joomsef is enabled, and 'Disable creation of new SEF URLs?' is set to 'no'.

I would like the client to upgrade to the paid version, but they are unlikely to do so if I cannot get it working properly on the free one.

Joomsef 3.9.9
Joomla 1.5.26

I am also having major cacheing issues, but I dont know if this is related....I keep on having to turn off sef urls altogether so that I can see pages as they should be, even if I clear the cache.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi there,

I have a site that is showing many loads of 404 errors in the log, most of them are cache files eg: cache/com_content/00266e4ddcd232b898c0ea2a123f642a.php

There are literally hundreds of these listings in the 404 log...the mysql stats are also through the roof, and I am hoping that fixing the problem here could reduce the queries to the db.

Thanks

- Francois

Joomla 1.5.22
Joomsef 3.7.6 paid
php 5.2.13
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)

Hi David,

I dont see any errors in the server log. I have turned on error reporting to maximum in the Joomla config, but dont see any errors output onto the page in the front end.

UPDATE

The JoomSEF URL car-rental-rates-group-j.htm is a customised URL. Originally JoomSEF creates a URL called vehicle-group-j.html.

I have tested deleting my custom URL (car-rental-rates-group-j.htm), cleaning the cache, then reloading the page on the front end. The dynamically created URL that JoomSEF creates is again back to 'vehicle-group-j.html'. When I click this URL it works perfectly!

I have now again edited the URL so that it is changed it back to 'car-rental-rates-group-j.htm', and saved it. When I clean the cache, and reload the page in the front end, the problem is back!

Any suggestions?
It seems to be a problem with me customising the URL.

Hi David,

The real URL is: index.php?option=com_wrapper&lang=en&view=wrapper&Itemid=71

If I have JoomSEF enabled, I have the problem, when I disable JoomSEF in its config and try the above URL it works perfectly

- Francois

The wrapper links I have in the menu on a site are no longer working. What happens now is that they do open the correct pages, but NOT as a wrapper. The pages being opened are hosted on the same server, and are normal php files, but now they no longer load within the 'site'
Any suggestions?
thanks
- Francois

UPDATE

It seems that one wrapper link in the menu IS working (for me anyway). The other links that are wrappers are not displaying correctly.

An example of a URL that does not display properly is www.cabs.co.za/car-rental-rates-group-j.htm
An example of a URL that seems to work properly for me still is www.cabs.co.za/car-rental-rates.html

If you view the source of one of the URLs that are not working properly in the wrapper format, I see some code and the following message: "This option will not work correctly. Unfortunately, your browser does not support inline frames."

I have not changed the link information in the menu, so these are links that were working perfectly before, and now do not. I have edited the mod_wrapper extension for JoomSEF, changing handling, but nothing changes no matter which option I choose.

The site is running on JoomSEF 3.7.5 Paid

Database Version: 5.0.51a-24-log
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.13
Web Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.22 Stable

I have just installed joomSEF, and the urls that are being made dont have a .html suffix. Is it possible to turn this on automatically so that the generated urls have it by default?
If so, how do I do this?
I am using Joomla 1.5 with the latest version of JoomSEF paid
-Francois