Nope, they said "Major Bug".

Hello,

we are preparing a new version of JoomSEF to be published during this weekend or in the beginning of the next week.

This version will introduce a new option which enables you to ignore the link source (the ItemID parameter in the URL). This way you will not get any duplicate links to a certain target, even if they come from different sources (menu, link, bottom menu, ...). Of course that has also drawbacks -- the behiavour of Joomla may not be what you want -- the menus may not change according to where you come from, etc. (that is what the ItemID is used for)

But at least, you will be able to choose what you prefer.

If anyone has some ideas/wishes to this topic, please mail them asap to info@artio.cz.

Best regards,
Michal

Thanks.

I'd like to try it out. Can we decide which items to ignore and which are fine?

It seems like there ought to be another way of passing the variable instead of in a url, that way everyone can be happy.

I can perfectly understand the use of itemid, but if if causes multiple duplicate links, then it is a problem for a whole lot of people.

Maljonic wrote:



@Maljonic,

I have exactly the same problem. Any ideas for a fix? 1.40 beta doesnt seem to do the trick either...

I am a little sad, I purchased the vmart plugin and now I still am not satisfied with the results.

I think the 404 logs are connected to the URL logs somehow, so if you click on a link in an article that doesn't exist yet or Google goes to a link that doesn't excist yet, but obviously did in the past but you've restarted Joomsef, the 404 error caused by this makes Joomsef add that address to its database as if it were a link already made, so when you click the menu link or browse your pages for the first time after restarting Joomsef it creates an extra blabla2.htm because it thinks blabla.htm already exists because of the 404 logs storing it.

I'm not sure how clearly I've written my above theory, if it makes sense or not, but I do know that if you purge your SEF URLs you have to purge your 404 logs as well to be rid of the blabla2.htm, so they must be connected somehow.

I think the SEF URLs are created as you browse the pages where they are located, so if you purge your SEF URLs then purge your 404 logs then browse through all your pages before anyone else or Google etc can get a look at them all your link will be ok. Of course this is very easy to do if you only have 20 pages, but it's quite a task if you have 5000 pages.

Personally I would be happy to do away with the 404 logs if it stopped this bug, but ideally they would be seperated out from the rest of the system so they have no influence whatsoever over created SEF URLs.