Hi there
I have a Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 migration site that has to go live soon. the old site has a naming structure
www.domain.com/section/category/article-name.html running joomsef 3.

I tried to duplicate identical settings to the J2.5 SEF4 install, but I get this:
www.domain.com/article-name(or menu name/category/category/article-name.html

It does not help to go to com_content - common settings and choose to use / don't use menu item in URL.
I have the latest joomsef 4 installed, purged all SEF urls and I can't get it to work like the previous setup.

I need a solution urgently, because when the new site goes live, I cant have traffic looking for www.domain.com/tools/screwdrivers/page-title.html and then it can't find it because it's now www.domain.com/page-title/tools/screwdrivers/page-title.html

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

I've just tested the setting and it works correctly. Make sure that you have the "Add menu title to URL" option disabled in Content extension parameters, then delete all created SEF URLs using JoomSEF's URLs Manager and clear JoomSEF's and Joomla's caches.

Yes, I have done that over and over, no change. That's why I am asking on the forum ;-)
Is there any other setting that would ovverride this behaviour?
Thanks

Bit of a monologue going here, but here is how I solved it.
Previously I purged all SEF URLS and cleared the cache from inside Joomsef. I did this over and over and saw no difference to the URLS even if I turned the setting to include menu names or not.

Because I was testing, I had the SEF features completely off and also joomsef.

After reading the reply, I did the same as usual, but I also went and cleaned the cache in Joomla and purged expired cache. I saw Joomsef 4 was in the list, but it said 0 files.

After doing that, I turned Joomla's SEF on and mod rewrite, as well as activated Joomsef 4.
When I did a CTRL-F5 on the home page, the urls were generated correctly.

I am not sure which of those things I did fixed it, but this may help somebody else.
Thanks for your reply dajo!