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Get the current Joomla URL
UPDATE
The answer to the main question is:
JFactory::getUri() is deprecated, use JUri directly like this:
<?php
$uri = JUri::getInstance();
echo $uri->toString();
// or simpler:
echo JUri::...
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How to remove the 'index.php' from URL's?
You can do that by enabling the SEF URLs and especially the parameter "Use URL rewriting" in the Joomla global configuration.
Please note that this will generate an internal server error if you didn'...
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How to deal with Duplicated Content / URLs in Joomla?
TOC of this answer:
Content under same Item Id
How Duplicate content is created / Dynamic Pages / URLs
SEO perspective
Dealing with Duplicate content in Joomla
References and links
...
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How do I generate a SEF URL in a custom module instead of the real URL?
Use JRoute for this:
rtrim(JUri::base(), '/') . JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute( $article->id, $article->catid ))
but you don't need JUri::base() if you don't want to link to a ...
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Remove Article ID from Joomla 3 url
Step 1
Edit “components/com_content/router.php“, then continue on step 2.
(You’ll probably have to re-do this step every time you update Joomla.)
Step 2
(There are two places need to do this ...
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Get the current Joomla URL
According to the Joomla tutorial, you can get the current URL by this function:
JUri::current();
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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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Remove Article ID from Joomla 3 url
For anyone that don't want to get dirty with editing Joomla code, we shall mention that 3rd party SEF extensions provide the ability to remove the ids from the SEF urls.
There are plenty of SEF ...
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Get the current Joomla URL
UPDATE:
JUri is now also deprecated. The correct way now is as follows:
$uri = \Joomla\CMS\Uri\Uri::getInstance();
echo $uri->toString();
(Edited to include an initial backslash - required if ...
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Why are Joomla url query strings commonly delimited with "&" instead of "&"?
It is to do with with HTML/XHTML compatibility. Before HTML5 having unencoded ampersands in URLs and in some other contexts was invalid. From XHTML validator:
Entity references start with an ...
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How do I generate a SEF URL in a custom module instead of the real URL?
There is a system plugin called System: SEF. When enabled, this plugin scans the final HTML output just before it is sent to the browser, and replaces any non-SEF links with their SEF counterparts by ...
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Possible to make slug generation turn "&" to "and" for url? as extension/plugin/patch?
There is no easy way to override that. In the end it uses JFilterOutput::stringURLUnicodeSlug() or JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe() (depending on the global setting) to make the alias URL safe. Since &...
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How to remove the 'index.php' from URL's?
You could add this code to the top of Joomla's index.php:
if(strcmp($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/index.php') == 0 && $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == ''){
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently")...
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How to remove the 'index.php' from URL's?
Changed htaccess.txt to .htaccess
Site > Global Configuration : Use URL rewriting (Choose Yes)
SEO Settings Search Engine Friendly URLs(Choose Yes)
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New menu changes article URL
No, this is how Joomla's sef system works. If you were to make a menu item to an article, that too would lose its item id from the url.
I think your only option would either be to override the router ...
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How to remove en from my site urls?
There is no need to set non-friendly SEF URLs. I have a multilingual website too and I had your same problem.
Do as following: Go to Plugins -> Language Filter and set Yes to: Remove the prefix ...
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How can I change a SEF URL to display another template?
Instead of $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], you can rely on JUri::root()
template parameter can not be added concatenating it with &. It has to be ? ... but it depends on the Url query. Thus, you need a ...
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How can I use 'SEO and Link Tools' in 'Admin Tools' in my situation?
In AdminTools set "Enable Link Migration" to Yes and then enter the old host name ie. example.com (don't include http:// at the front)
However this will not solve your problem.
The fastest way is ...
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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 turns all menu items to sub-sub-menu items when adding a new one
The issue was down to a problem with a PDO database file MySQL driver, which is why it wasn't replicated on my other 3.5.0 site, which was using MySql.
There is a fix here, or it should be patched in ...
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How do I turn off Joomla inserting a BASE tag into the HTML?
I found this answer, but I don't think it's permanent.
https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=354052#p2725317
To remove the base tag in the header simply add this to your template file (index.php)
$...
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Is this a route loop?
We made this problem go away by updating Joomla to 2.5.24 (a painless point-release upgrade) and updating Document Seller to its 3.5 version, and the problem described above resolved itself exactly as ...
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The URL loaded two times on every page
This issue is caused by blank src attributes of a few tags:
* <script src="">
* <iframe src="">
* <link href="">
* <img src="">
Whenever any media/page is referred with a ...
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How do I generate a SEF URL in a custom module instead of the real URL?
Here is another way of getting the correct root URL of the site. This also takes care if your site is in subfolder
$rootURL = rtrim(JURI::base(),'/');
$subpathURL = JURI::base(true);
...
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My 404 page returns a 500
In libraries/legacy/controller/legacy.php we changed:
throw new Exception(JText::sprintf('JLIB_APPLICATION_ERROR_VIEW_NOT_FOUND', $name, $type, $prefix), 500);
to
throw new Exception(JText::...
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Joomla Menu Structuring
The simplest way to achieve the URL structure you mention is to create a Category called "News" and create your news articles in this category. This will give you a structure like:
www.example.com/...
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Modify standard redirect url after session time out
You could write a template override for the login template being called when the standard login url is displayed. There you create a HTTP 302 Move response status.
Or you write a url rewrite to your ....
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Joomla 3.0 direct link to file with multi language
That's a bit strange, I guess it should be related to how you have linked the pdf. From where you link the pdf?
In any case a direct hard-coded link to the pdf file like:
images/sample.pdf
...
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How Can I Get Rid Of Category Pages in Joomla
This post highlights a common problem with Joomla and other CMSes. Without the correct setup many different URLs can be indexed for the same page.
Joomla applies an ID for each category and each item....
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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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