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Use Joomla redirect component to fix broken URLs

With the below .htaccess rule you can redirect all pages from a url with the pattern of: https://www.portal-gestao.com/whatever/whatever/9999-title-of-the-page to a new url of : https://www....
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How can I redirect old domain to a new domain?

There are various techniques you can do to redirect an old domain to a new one and many depend on your server and site configuration. If you are hosting on Apache server, then one of the most common ...
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Administrator page 404 not found

If your admin area works widthout .htaccess its possible your joomla config has rewrite option enable. You can try edit your configuration.php file and change the status directly in configuration file:...
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Offering different content to different clients

I have achieve great result usging the nonumbers extensions like advanced module manager and advanced template manager. Links: https://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/advancedmodulemanager#free-vs-pro ...
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Multilingual Joomla site with multiple domains

There is a nice free plugin Language Domains from Yireo, which allows you to switch the domain-name as soon as a specific language is selected. Each domain is bound to a language, by configuring ...
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Joomla random lack of access permission

I got a similar issue. Maybe my solution will help you. I was not able to edit a second time my article and I was also receiving this message : You are not permitted to use that link to directly ...
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Use Joomla redirect component to fix broken URLs

You can use JOOMSEF component, which is for SEO purpose and more of this extension is free. Also in that component you have option to remove category and menu names from url and also you can ...
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Use Joomla redirect component to fix broken URLs

What you could do is use Joomla's Redirect Manager to redirect the old URL to the new one. In the Joomla backend, go to: Components >> Redirect >> New In the Source URL field, enter the old URL and ...
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Joomla and PHP versions

Using FastCGI: in apache configuration: FastCgiServer /var/www/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.3.0 FastCgiServer /var/www/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.4.0 FastCgiServer /var/www/cgi-bin/php-cgi-5.5.0 Create php-cgi-* files ...
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Search component pointing to wrong SEF URLs in Joomla 3

The best practice to avoid any unpredictable urls is to create "Articles - Category List" or "Articles - Category Blog" menu items for all your top level article categories. This way all your articles ...
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Stopping a redirect in .htaccess

You are commenting out the RewriteRule to the examplesite.org.au site, but before the rewriteRule you have the RewriteCond for the Server_Port, which lefts orphaned and looks to be the issue here. So, ...
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What is the best way to switch an existing Joomla site from http to https (SEO)

Keep your .HTACCESS rule, but change it to: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.fr [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.fr/$1 [L,R=301] In your configuration.php file, make sure these two lines ...
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How can I make a directory accessible without putting it on a menu?

Obfuscated File Name You can upload a file to the website e.g. at website.com/obfuscatedfilename.pdf and then notify users of the file location via email. Users can then download the file by ...
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Site keeps browsing itself all the time

I do not see this as a Joomla issue (except the .htaccess file in Joomla root). From the small part of the log you provided in your question we can clearly read that the requests are made by ...
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How do I add an expires by type header for site.webmanifest?

ExpiresByType <mime-type> "access plus 1 year" The <mime-type> you need to use here is dependent on the mime-type that your server is using in the response. ie. The value of the ...
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Joomla and PHP versions

The most efficient way in my opinion is to use something like MAMP, which has become available for Windows. The MAMP pro version gives you options to create as many hosts environments as you like and ...
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Joomla 404 always redirects to homepage

index.php will always be present in the URL as long as you haven't enabled the option "Use URL Rewriting". If you enable that one in the global config, it will be removed. Even 404 errors are going ...
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Administrator page 404 not found

I was having the same problem, and found a solution. Disable the following items: Cache public $ caching = ''; public $ cache_handler = 'file'; # (replace memcache, per file) public $ cachetime = '...
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Remove index php add language code in the url

Enable URL Rewriting What you have to do, is to enable URL rewriting. It can be done in the backend: Global Configuration -> Site -> Use URL Rewriting (set to yes) or directly in the ...
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.htaccess and localhost re-direct issue

The rewrite base path should have the path of the folder where the Joomla site is installed. That is because in your current scenario, Joomla does not reside in the root folder. So, if Joomla is ...
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Remove index php add language code in the url

It should not be necessary to modify/add your .htaccess rules in order to remove index.php from your url, it usually works out of the box if you enable URL Rewriting in the Joomla Configuration, and ...
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How to use images from the domain images folder for all subdomains?

If your sites are on Apache web server, you can share images folder from one site to the other, by creating symbolic links. With this technique I successfully created common images folder, which is ...
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How can I redirect old domain to a new domain?

You can try edit your index.php and add In first line after < php? tag this code: header("Location: http://newsite.com"); die(); I holpe this helps.
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Joomla random lack of access permission

It well could be a cache problem, Joomla by default does not cache pages when logged in precisely because of such issues. Mainly adding an answer to note that Apache can be set to cache only specific ...
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Offering different content to different clients

One of the most powerful module managers for Joomla is MetaMod. I have been using it for ages and in any imaginable scenario. It has powerfull set of criterias: by date, time, recurring time, GeoIP (...
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Multilingual Joomla site with multiple domains

Try adding the following to your .htaccess file. RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^se(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.se$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^dk(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.dk$1 [R=301,L] If you only have a ...
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403 Forbidden Access, when accessing custom html/php files directly

You must customize this part or remove it at all: #index.php to root RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*index\.(html?|php)\ HTTP/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/administrator/ ...
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htaccess mysteries: Can Joomla site run without .htaccess?

What is .htaccess? .htaccess is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software. When a .htaccess file is placed in a directory which is in turn 'loaded via ...
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Using SEF URLs breaks all templates

I found the problem: The templates were not at all responsible. I am using the JCH Optimize plugin. In the Basic Options tab, there is a Use url rewrite parameter. That was the problem. When I ...
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