Hey all,

All of my page titles begin with a hyphen '-' - I cannot find a setting for this anywhere in the back end so the pages begin with the actual word, it looks half-finished the way it is now. Will this hyphen affect my page rankings? will I rank highly for hyphens? :)

I'm using Joomsef 3.3.4 only because I can't get the upgrade to work - separate support post made on that one

basically - How do I get rid of the hyphen?

Thanks

Paul

Hi there

I just bought this extension today and have found that the virtuemart extension is causing the entire site to fail. if I 'skip' virtuemart or select nocache then the site works fine, if i use the default handler the site goes blank.

I cleared all caches and I have checked the 'documentation' but there is no indication of what to do.

Please help

Thank you

Paul

Hi Ben,

you need to make this a setting for your entire site in the .htaccess file that resides in the root directory of your site. There are several versions of this on the web - google for "htaccess www redirect" or something similar

Example 1 - Redirect domain.com to www.domain.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Example 2 - Redirect www.domain.com to domain.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Doing this means that entering either mysite.com or www.mysite.com will redirect to whichever you define as the primary. It also means you will not be hit by a google duplicate content penalty.

HTH

Paul

Noise & stuff
www.bingbangbong.com

Update...

I just uninstalled the auction factory package and everything seems to be working again.

Why would Joomsef work before, then stop working, and now start to work again when I remove an un-associated piece of software? Thankfully I was not using the auction Factory software any more.

Anyway I hope my experience is useful to others who come along afterwards

Paul

Hi there,

I've been using Joomsef and CB for over a year or so now without any major difficulties. Today I had a 'too many pages' message which I have had 2-3 times this year - as usual I cleared my sef cache to remove that message.

When that was done I was unable to login using my CB_login module. I am however able to use the core Joomla login.

When I try to login using the CB module the URL displays www.mysite.com/my_profile/login.php and when I try to logout it takes me to www.mysite.com/my_profile/logout.html. In both cases it displays the category headers from one of my extensions (auction factory) and neither logs me in or out. I have changed the redirect on login/out settings but this does not make a difference. Trying to view a users CB profile also brings the 'category headers' page

The only thing that changed was me purging the sef URLS because of the too many pages issue (can ANYTHING be done about this?)

I'm using J! 1.0.15 & Joomsef 1.5.1

Thank you

Paul