Hello,

I am having problems getting SEF links to jive well. Here is the situation:
I have one News item, from the front page I get this link:
which gives me the link "blog-2.htm"

From the main News page (not from the front page) the link is:
which I have to be iedSpotlight8.htm.

These are the same content, but I cannot duplicate links, so I they cannot read the same.

How can I remedy this situation? I know I can insert my own link in the preview and disable the component link, but there will people less technical than myself editing content. I want to make things as simple as possible for eveyone.

Thanks again!<br><br>Post edited by: gmarez, at: 2007/01/03 21:35

I have the same problem.

I have a similar, or possible worse, problem. For some reason some of my pages get rewritten newsitem-2.html when they were origianally written newsitem.html and are indexed in Google as newsitem.html, but now that URL has gone because it has changed. Purging SEF URls doesn't work, some URLs still get rewritten with a number 2 instead of just .html. THe only way I can fix it is to use PHPMyadmin to empty the redirection table, which is a total pain because it keeps happening all the time. I can't have my content changing it's address in this way because it will never be indexed by anyone.

It occurs to me that the problem is caused by the same content being called by two different components.
The ID's are fine, but the itemid is what is causing the error. In this case it is com_frontpage and com_newsflashes serving the content.

Is there a way to have Artio only create a SEF url using the ID variable?

Turns out that this is a bug in recent Joomla updates.

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,125365.0.html

I don't think they're calling it a bug, but rather a fix - just that it upsets a lot of people's setup.