Questions tagged [sef]
Search engine friendly (SEF), human-readable or clean URLs are URLs that make sense to both humans and search engines because they explain the path to the particular page they point to.
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Joomla 4 Router parse function
I'm converting a custom component from Joomla 3, where the component was using the legacy router, to Joomla 4 router. I have the router service set up and working on Joomla 4.4.0. I first tried ...
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Short Url with FlexiContent Or Remove menu item alias from URL
I am using flexicontent for content management in Joomla 4.3.4.
And i created the Menu as
All content->Edited->News
As its URL with menu item alias
my-domain/all-content/edited/news/content-...
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How do I change a page URL on Joomla 3.10.11?
I'm a complete newbie to Joomla here (been working with it for a few days only) and wanted to ask what is probably a silly question. For clarification I'm not using any SEF extensions/plugins - only ...
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J4 URL routing - cannot remove menu alias from URL - SEF issue
I've migrated a J3 site to J4 and have an issue with article URL's. In J3 an article would load /category/article i.e. https://old.lymington.com/133-locally/1458-a-guide-to-beaches-near-lymington-and-...
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Joomla 4 Component SEF URL not working for detail page of the item when catid is added in the url
Below is the have written the code router file in the component
namespace Test\Component\Test\Site\Service;
// No direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
use Joomla\CMS\Component\Router\...
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Joomla 4 SEF URLs broken since upgrade
We upgraded from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 and since upgrading have found that many (almost all) links on the site are broken.
Here is an example of a broken link:
https://guildofenamellers.org/index.php/...
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Replicate SEF URLs Using Article Alias
I've got a Joomla site that I'm preparing to upgrade to Joomla 4. I'm currently using the sh404SEF component to create SEF urls that use the article's alias (Ex: example.com/about-us). I need a ...
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Joomla 4 - Check if Alias is Unique
I'm trying to develop a Joomla 4 component and I almost completed it, but I have issues to save an item when the Alias is not Unique.
In the database, I've set up this:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX aliasindex ...
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J4 component URL not SEF
Context: I have a component that works fine in J3 and I want to migrate it to J4.
Problem: When I create a menu (Joomla main menu) on the frontend view of the component, in J4 only, the URL is not SEF ...
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SEO-friendly URLs are being corrupted after update
I have built a directory website and started to add some content. I have created the standard pages (contact us, privacy, etc.) and added businesses. I would like SEO-friendly URLs, so I set:
Search ...
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JRoute don't make a SEF Url from the article link
When I use Route method to convert a normal url in a SEF url it doesn't work if the article is not a menu item. I don't understand if it's a normal behavior or if I'm doing something wrong. There is ...
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Update SEF URL to change what is output
Good day,
I have inherited a very old Joomla site - and the are wanting URL updates for a custom module that was developed for them.
The URL's currently contain car-rental-branch - which they want ...
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How to define URL of Joomla sub-menus?
How/Where is the URL of a Joomla article (used as submenu item) defined when using URL-shortening?
What I want to achieve is to have the article URLs to represent a submenu logic.
For example, the URL ...
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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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Joomla 4 - router.php SEF-URLs broken since update
This current router.php creates in Joomla 4 this URL: localhost/component/ohanah/?id=688&Itemid=101
But it should create this: localhost/kurse/688-event-name where "event-name" is the ...
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How to disable Joomla routing by Article ID with any alias but use exact alias only
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....
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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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Router, keep only item alias in SEF URL
For a particular reason, I need to keep in the SEF URL only the alias of the item to have a URL like this www.mywebsite.com/**myItemAlias** but of course without creating a direct menu to the item ...
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Joomla apply SEF route from template's index.php file
I am having a problem recently is that- I am creating a Joomla Site Template and for a specific condition, the template redirects to http://mydomain.com/index.php?templateStyle=10&tmpl=custom.
Now ...
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URL's in search results page are wrong and not the URL of the article assigned menu item
I have Joomla 3.9.21 which has SEF URL's enabled.
All works perfectly, except for the search results page.
For example, this is the SEO link to an article (which is assigned a menu option whose root ...
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Get SEF path of an article from external script using articleID
I am practically new to Joomla and I need to get the SEF path of an article from an external php script. I feel like I'm close, but something is not working for me. The preliminary code I have as an ...
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Custom component: different redirect when changing language/logging in
I inherited a site with a custom component: an agenda viewer. When I click on an agenda-item from the list and then login (via login module) or change the language, I am not redirected to the agenda ...
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Get the option and view values of a SEF url (i.e. the internal url)
I'm developing a Joomla! 3.9.x component and have written a custom com_myusers component. I want to avoid that people login/reset/remind using the standard com_users component and I thought the best ...
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JRoute::link('site') generates different strings depending on the app context
I'm developing a component in Joomla! 3.9.13 with SEF urls turned ON and I use this line of code
JRoute::link(
'site',
'index.php?option=com_mycomponent&task=profile.edit',
false,
JRoute::...
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Custom URL for Component Search Results
I am writing to seek help displaying custom results in a SEF URL on Joomla CMS.
This is an example url with a customized search:
https://example.com/search.html?search=IT&exf_5=1&exf_4=-1&...
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use router.php in simple component
I am having a simple component, basically a list view and a single view.
I want to nice URLs so I copy pasted and modified the router.php from com_content like this:
class BookstoreRouter extends ...
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how to route url - JRoute get wrong itemid and wrong sef url
Joomla 3.9.12, JoomGallery 3.4
I have a site with joomShopping for e-shop and JoomGallery for portfolio.
The site has 2 menus where some menu items of the first are menu item aliases of the second.
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Create a link from Backend to SEF Path in Frontend
I would like to create a link in Administrator Panel that redirect a user to an SEF url in Frontend.
Code in Backend
<?php
$link = JUri::root() . 'index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...
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JoomSEF extension not create SEF URL on page visit
I am using free version of JoomSEF extension. When I visit any page, JoomSEF extension is not creating according SEF URL entry in the backend. It looks something minor but I am clueless for this.
If ...
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SEF URL Broken Image Links When Fetching API Results
Using Joomla 3.9.8
I'm using the fetch() api in order to retrieve some data from a remote API. When I have the api results I'm displaying them in html elements.
The API returns various values, one ...
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How to get the canonical SEF URL of an article in PHP?
Is there any way to get from the article it's SEF URL?
<?php
$id = JFactory::getApplication()->input->getInt('id');
$article = JTable::getInstance("content");
?>
searching ...
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Find Article SEF URL by ID
Is it possible to get SEF URL from Joomla article ID through some API?
I'm moving data from old custom CMS to Joomla. Articles in old CMS contain links to each other.
Old articles had their full URL ...
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Menu links working only for logged in users
This is the site I'm talking about. If you click any menu item, you reach the correct page, but the page shows up garbled and the page URL is much longer than it should be, including categories names ...
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Does JRoute by default finds path to menu link (SEF)
What do I understand in Joomla is that until you create a menu for a specific view you will be getting component links to its views, in this manner:
component/component_name/location/new-york (ex #1)...
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K2 SEF issues including Joomla Smart Search
I am having an issue with smart search and k2. If I search for a Joomla article then everything pulls the correct SEF URL. If I try to search for something that is a k2 item it loads correctly but ...
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Product url problem after updating VirtueMart
In my VirtueMart Configuration under the SEO tab, I've checked "Use full category tree for product links"
so my products detail page default routing was like this:
example.com/cat1/subcat1/subcat2/...
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SEF : URL shows user email - Routing
I am working on an ecommerce joomla site and I am having some trouble with SEF URLs. When I turn this functionality ON in the Global Configuration of Joomla Backend, it appends user's email address (...
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Search engines indexing blog items with both SEF urls and non-SEF urls
Just noticed that if I search for blog post titles in Google, I get both SEF and non-SEF results shown. It only appears to happen to articles that don't have a menu item. Has anyone else experienced ...
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Different views on router.php (Joomla! 3.6.4)
I am developing my second custom component for Joomla! 3.6.4 and I have another problem with my router.php. This time I need to dynamically change the view on my router.php but I don’t know how to do ...
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RSS Feed for TAGS with invalid content URLS
i used joomla on https://www.724press.com and after one year i cant solve one important problem of it.
my website language is PERSIAN. its magazine website so, i need rss feed for many TAGS of ...
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Joomla 2.5.6 infinite 303 loop (SEF)
I'm trying to migrate a Joomla 2.5.6 site from one server to another. I have used scp to copy the files one for one across and taken a mysqldump of the database so I'm sure that the new server has a ...
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How to put utf8 characters in alias?
I am trying to set Chinese URLs for my Joomla site. However, I can't just put Chinese characters in the "alias"; I've also tried putting in url-encoded utf8 characters like %E7%9A%84, but it will be ...
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Custom Component URL router
So I have read https://docs.joomla.org/Supporting_SEF_URLs_in_your_component and looked at examples both online and in com_content but I still cannot get this routing thing down 100%.
I would like to ...
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URL Not Working When SEF is Disabled in Joomla 3.0 Custom Component
I am developing custom component for joomla 3.x.
Our urls for non-sef views are not working url: index.php?option=com_mycomponent&view=myview2&id=mycustomeitemid
The same url when sef is ...
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Get Joomla SEF Url from Database Query
i need an export of all Joomla Articles in a specific category, but with the URL they are on. (So introtext, fulltext, url)
Has anybody a quick way how I can get the Joomla SEF Url if i only have the ...
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Joomla K2 articles redirect
I have a lot of URLs like this: www.mywebsite.com/blog/item/1021-le-foreste.html that becomes, after SEF changes, like this: www.mywebsite.com/blog/le-foreste.html How can I write an .htaccess rule ...
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Simplify menu item URLs
I would like to simplify SEF URLs of menu items in lower levels of my menu by omitting the parent menu item alias from the URL.
I installed the Direct Alias plugin, which should be doing exactly this ...
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Article appears even outside given path
I've recently come across some strange behaviour of my Joomla 3.6.5 installation. I've noticed that (with SEF on) any article preceded by its ID is displayed if called directly by its URL, and not ...
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SEF turned on, stops the Country States dropdown in checkout Virtuemart 3.0
I have an issue with SEF, when turned on it stops the States dropdown in checkout Virtuemart 3 and Viostore Template.
Trying to customise some SEO which recommends SEF as a one of the requirements.
I ...
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Is it safe to use `Use URL Rewriting` option?
I'd like to remove index.php from joomla URLs.
Though I'm little worried that this can affect keyword positions in google.
Is it safe to turn this parameter ?
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