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Very slow HTTP response times possibly due to SEF rules in htaccess

Im running Joomla 3.X and can't seem to pinpoint why I'm getting such high HTTP response times. I think I narrowed it down to the SEF rules in my .htaccess I ran some tests and thought to post my ...
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Error 0 after moving Joomla site to subfolder

As told in the title, I just moved my 3.9 Joomla site to a subfolder on my apache server. Unfortunately when I'm trying to access it, I get this error "syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting end ...
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Help: Joomla routing and pass-through redirects

I have a little project integrating a 3rd party application, which seems pretty easy and straight forward for the most part. However, it requires some internal Routing to be set in place, in order to ...
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Why is Joomla redirecting from example.com to example.com/example.com?

I was advised to post here from Stack Overflow We need help. We're running an ad campaign and realized that a lot of paid traffic was landing on a 404 not found page. The issue is caused by auto-...
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Making /joomla subdirectory the website root AND forcing HTTPS

Setting up a Joomla site on Apache 2.4 on a Synology Disk Station. Joomla is unavoidably installed in a subdirectory of the web root (/web/joomla) and unfortunately do not have access to the Apache ...
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.htaccess redirect causes invalid security token when logging in thru email link

I wanted to eliminate duplicate content by redirecting all requests to https://www... by using the below .htaccess entry: ## Begin - Custom redirects # # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a ...
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Invalid security token locks out users trying to log in through an email link

I ran into the below problem that blocks my users to log into my site: When the user needs to log in she gets a notification email with a button that links to the below address: https://www....
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Custom htaccess rewrites with PT flags

I'm attempting to add a custom RewriteRule in the default htaccess file in Joomla 3, but not having any luck getting it to work. The end goal is to create a URL with a wildcard subpage, like site.com/...
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Redirect administrator login page of multiple Joomla websites hosted in Apache server

I have around 10 Joomla websites hosted on Apache server. The admin URLs are similar to below patterns. http://m1.aa.example.com/administrator http://m2.aa.example.com/administrator . ...
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htaccess to hide Joomla in public_html -> subfolder

I installed Joomla using a quickstart package and store the files in a subfolder (named: jml) in public_html/jml. I normally use the following commands to rewrite the url from https://www.test.com/jml ...
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Homepage of multilingual site not working anymore after removing index.php (404); all other sites working

So I removed the "index.php" - part from the URL in Joomla in the following way: Change the htaccess.txt - file name to .htaccess via FTP Set the URL-rewrite Option in the Joomla Configuration ...
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Remove index.php - file on multlilingual Joomla Site

As supported by various posts, I did : change the htaccess.txt - file name to .htaccess via FTP set the URL - Rewrite Option in the Joomla Configuration Options to "YES" Result: - index.php is ...
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Custom 404 page

I am having trouble with custom 404 page, So I have been trying to get the custom 404 page to work but I have problem making it work right. All the methods that are described everywhere : make ...
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Redirect loop when https

I added ssl-certificate on my Joomla web-site. My actions: Add certificate data to hosting In configuration check SSL for entire site In configuration.php rewrite live_site as https://mysite.com ...
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Redirect problem

Over the last couple of years I have taken over a website made up of several parts, ie there were some traditional html pages, a php “wiki” installation and a similar php “knowledgeable” installation. ...
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sitemap.xml rewrite rule no longer working

We use a base build template for most of our site builds, and until a few months ago we have not had a problem re-writing the sitemap url to sitemap.xml. The rule we use is: RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$...
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Shorten some URLs and show them to the user in another format

I have some sections of my web in joomla that are accessed like this: http://miweb.com/index.php?option=com_component&view=contracts&ff=1&id=20977&token=8f8c54a3ce165332fd59f17319ba ...
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.htacces replace all underscores with hyphens

I am having a struggle trying to get my .htaccess to remove all underscores from an url. I have a lot of old aliases in my articles and they are all with underscores. I have searched for a sollution, ...
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Multiple Slashes in URL

I'm having a bit of a strange problem on a couple of Joomla sites and I'm not really sure where to start with figuring out what the problem is. When I crawl the site with Screaming frog, I am getting ...
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Rewriting single URL - Multiple attempts without result

I'm looking for some specific advise - I am removing Joomsef from one of my sites as the support is poor and I need to rewrite some specific url's generated by the widgetkit component as the core sef ...
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All anchor tags take me back to home page

I'm trying to create some accessibility Skip links to be used with screen readers. I added the links at the top of the body tag and I added a corresponding anchor tag to both the main navigation and ...
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Rewrite URL In joomla

Is it possible to do the following URL rewrite (not redirect) with htaccess? mypage.com/en/example/example/index.php to mypage.com/en/example I have also enabled URL rewriting in Joomla config, ...
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how to use mod_rewrite in joomla backend

how i can change the displayed address administrator/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit to administrator/content/article/edit by using htaccess file in joomla
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htaccess mysteries: Can Joomla site run without .htaccess?

I was trying to understand .htaccess file. I learned some directives and added them on my htaccess.txt file but things weren't going as I expected. To test whether I put the contents on right file, I ...
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.htaccess recognize string and replace it

I would like that .htaccess recognize string in my url and replace it with another. Previously I used SEO components, but today I want to use Joomla native seo, and I have different structure of my ...
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Default landing page without language suffix

I have a multilanguage Joomla website. How can I configure my site so that when someone types any url, it will always bring them to: www.mysite.com ? Currently, a suffix is always added to my site ...
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Multilingual Joomla site with multiple domains

I have Joomla site with native language system and my site looks like this: www.mydomain.pl www.mydomain.pl/en/ www.mydomain.pl/de/ www.mydomain.pl/se/ www.mydomain.pl/dk/ I have domain www.mydomain....
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301 redirect non-www to www in subdirectories

I am in a unique situation where I have multiple instances of Joomla setup under my primary domain in different subdirectories. For example: mydomain.com = Joomla instance mydomain.com/...
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Offering different content to different clients

In an Intranet I have two groups of clients, each well known by their IP address. I want to present Joomla module A for clients from both groups, module B only for the clients of group 1 and module C ...
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Stopping a redirect in .htaccess

This is a real novice question regarding .htaccess files. I have read up on it but I really have no clue. We have a site called originalsite.com.au that is redirecting to www.examplesite.org.au (see ...
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Redirect to home if someone tries to access com_users or frontpage editing (.htaccess, web.config)

I would like to redirect any trafic which tries to acces com_users (any view) or the frontpage editing (index.php?option=com_content&view=form&layout=edit) to the frontpage. I don't want to ...
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Redirect links from main to subdomain

I move part of my site to subdomain and want that link of that component redirect to subdomain. I want if user come to site with moved component link he will redirect to subdomain. https://domain....
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.htaccess and localhost re-direct issue

I'm quite possibly doing something very silly here however after hours of looking I though I'd ask here as no doubt somebody will spot it! Local dev environment Win7/XAMPP I have a number of local ...
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Remove index php add language code in the url

I built international site and it adds language code to the end of the urls: www.site.com/index.php/en/ I enabled SEF urls and url rewriting in global configuration, I tried many .htaccess snippets to ...
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Redirect URLs using Redirect component or htaccess

In Joomla 3.4 want to redirect this page: https://www.portal-gestao.com/component/k2/1422-como-i...%C3%A9tica-na-sua-empresa.html To this: https://www.portal-gestao.com/item/1422-como-i...%C3%...
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Administrator page 404 not found

I can't access administrator's page; it returns 404 error not found. Although when I rename .htaccess to htaccess.txt, admin page works, but the whole site returns 404 error not found. When I rename ...
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Joomla 404 always redirects to homepage

I'm having issues getting the proper 404 page (templates/MY_TEMPLATE/error.php) to work. I've spent hours reading through and trying every example or fix listed on Stack Exchange and other sites with ...
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Search component pointing to wrong SEF URLs in Joomla 3

My search component is pointing to the wrong URLs. When the user clicks on them, they're redirected to the home page. For example, the search returns: http://cursos.portal-gestao.com/9-excel/...
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Joomla and PHP versions

I work on a number of Joomla sites for clients, across multiple (differing) hosting environments. This can be a pain when troubleshooting as some of the hosts are running old versions of PHP (5.2) and ...
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URL Rewrite stopped working

on joomla 3.3.6 some weird thing happened: the url's are not being rewritten to SEF. Everything is enabled and all. The weird thing is that the menus on site are rewriting their URL's and link to SEF ...
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Rewriting .htaccess into apache config

I have got myself a vserver. I just thought off rewriting the context of the .htaccess (RewriteRules etc.) into my /etc/apache2/sites-availabe/domain.conf . Does this work? Or does the .htaccess ...
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Included .htaccess file causes admin folder to redirect to index.php

I've just enabled the included .htaccess file for Joomla 3.3.6 and now when I try to log on to the control panel it redirects to index.php in the root. By commenting it out I've narrowed it down to ...
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Leverage browser caching

Following htaccess code is available at siteground for Leverage browser caching. My question is that I want to set images expiration time for 1 week and css and scripts expiration time for 2 days. ...
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Joomla remove index.php - redirect to homepage .htaccess

Following is my .htaccess, SEF and Use rewriting enable in global config. But i can still access my home page with two urls; for instance: www.example.com and www.example.com/index.php. Am I doing ...
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How to remove the 'index.php' from URL's?

I was wondering if it is possible to remove the 'index.php' that is shown in every URL.
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