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Joomla use own SEF redirects what drives any variants of URL to same article basing on Article ID (no matter what alias will be used)

http://example.com/3-welcome-to-your-blog.html

or http://example.com/3-welcome-to.html

or http://example.com/3.html

all above drive at the same article.

My question - where is a part of code responsible for such a behaviour ?

Because I'd like to comment (disable) this part of code what is convenient feature sometimes, but in my case I need TO SAVE Joomla article IDs in URL - but Joomla should answers only to Article ID with EXACT alias

http://example.com/3-welcome-to-your-blog.html

all other "URL variations" like

http://example.com/3-welcome-to.html etc

should give natural 404 error.

I don't create a module or plugin, I just want to change default Joomla SEF routing to set "Article ID + exact alias only" if it's possible.

Thx in advance for any opinions or ideas to try (excluding idea "disable Article IDs through Admin settings" - as said above I need to save the ones)

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May not be practical for blog articles, but a fixed url can be achieved via menu items: https://docs.joomla.org/Search_Engine_Friendly_URLs#Limitations

Otherwise, if I see it correctly, you have to write your own plugin. https://docs.joomla.org/Search_Engine_Friendly_URLs#Custom_Routing

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  • Thx for pointing, but I don't think I need own plugin to OVERRIDE Joomla default behaviour, I just look is there a way to COMMENT/disable some lines in /components/com_content/router.php to allow only ID+exact alias...this case I suppose we remove some functionality, not override or add the one...may be my logic is wrong - this is why I've asked the question here to read some opinions.
    – Serge
    May 12, 2021 at 20:58
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    Using a Plugin is how you can override core behaviour without editing the core files which is considered a no-no as your changes will get replaced when the core is updated. You may like to look at the onAfterRoute event as a place to start reading: docs.joomla.org/Plugin/Events/System
    – Irata
    May 12, 2021 at 23:10

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