Alright, I got it to work now, after a bit of hacking in the blind :)
This is what needed to be done.

In Administrator - Components - com_sef - admin.sef.html.php :

Find the line:

and comment it out by adding two slashes // before it .
Then, add, at that place, the following:


Save and upload. Then find the next file:
Administrator - Components - com_sef - installer - upgrade.php :
Find the line

and comment it out by adding two slashes // before it .
Then, add, at that place, the following:


Then, two lines further down, you'll find:

Comment it out by adding two slashes // before it .
Then, add, at that place, the following:


Save and upload. Done. The automatic upgrade works! Wow!

I went through the FAQ at the server host, and found that they had disabled allow_url_fopen due to security reasons. Instead they adviced that the cURL Library should be used instead.

Does that info help?

I guess you found the problem, David. In phpinfo(), I found:

Configuration
PHP Core
allow_url_fopen Local value: off Master value: off

Is there anything I can do about it, or is it just to accept that isn't working?

-Tom

Oh, no it has never worked. Ever.

Not in any of the free versions either.
I've asked about it, if it was due to a bug or due to something else, but no answers. So I assumed it was crippleware, as it seemed to go hand in hand with the idea of inserting hidden links.
One of the reasons I got the commercial version was that I assumed that then I would get a working update function. Bit of a surprise to find out that the Update in the commersial version didn't work either, and felt a bit tricked, since it seemed unlikely that anyone would care to assist.

A big, but very pleasant surprise to actually get a reply, David! Thank you. I just posted for the sake of it, and was prepared to see my question be ignored and eventually buried as usual. Are you checking these forums regularly now, or was I just lucky?

I will check out the link you kindly provided. maybe the answer is there? :)

-Tom

Joomla 1.0.12
JoomSEF 2.2.6 (Paid version)
PHP version 5.2.5
Run as CGI?: Don't know where to find any info about that.
Database version: 5.0.41-log
Web Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) PHP/5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1
WebServer to PHP interface: apache

I've seen mentioned that there should be an upgrade function in JoomSEF.
How do I enable that function in the paid v. 2.2.6 ?

v. 2.2.7 should be available now, I think.
But when I go to the JoomSEF Upgrade Manager, it says:

Installed version: 2.2.6
Newest version: ?.?.?

And under "Upgrade From ARTIO Server", it just says: Server not available.

How do I enable it? Or is there an alternative way to update JoomSEF with a patch file?
Because I'm a bit scared that I will loose all my URLs if I uninstall 2.2.6, and make a new install with 2.2.7

In the "404 log" in JoomSef admin, I often find weird website adresses that don't belong to me.
It can look like this:
www. 4all2sell .com /test_1.txt (spaces inserted to "break" the url, just in case.. )

Is this hacking attempts? If so, should I do anything?

ddobosic wrote:


The same here. The title becomes 2 x SiteName + title from current page.
Often, it helps to give the page a title inside admin area.

I'm using the paid version of JoomSef. Left a ticket about it in the websupport, though no reply yet.

Sigrid Suski wrote:


Thank You! Everything works now.

However, it seems that there is an error in the installation note of this extension. It says:


Obviously, the latter part is not correct, as I'm using JoomSEF v. 1.5...

Tom Stone wrote:


Am I supposed to buy support for this problem?

Hello again,

I upgraded SOBI2 to version 2.6.2 at the same time I upgraded JoomSEF. And suddenly, my catalogue didn't function anymore.

I thought the problem was the JoomSEF extension I had bought from www.joomla-host.co.za

So I uninstalled that, and bought Artio's SOBI extension instead. Good and clean URLs were the result.... but the catalogue still doesn't work. Example:

www.tomstone.se/katalog/musik.html

When clicking to get to the detail view, you don't get anywhere - you stay on the same page.
The modified vs. original URL's:

www.tomstone.se/katalog/musik.html
www.tomstone.se/index.php?option=com_sob...d=76&catid=5

www.tomstone.se/katalog/musik/micke-svahn.html
www.tomstone.se/index.php?option=com_sobi2&Itemid=76
&catid=5&sobi2Id=4&sobi2Task=sobi2Details

...since I've paid for two different extensions, I'm naturally rather interested in getting it to work. I'm grateful for any advice at all :-)

---

Also, I'd be very happy to get advice on how to auto-replace odd characters in the urls. Like exchanging " Ã… " for " A " etc.
Because now a word like "HÃ¥kan" becomes "h-aring-kan.html", when I'd prefer "hakan.html"

Post edited by: TStone, at: 2007/04/25 17:16

Post edited by: jirka, at: 2007/04/27 10:15<br><br>Post edited by: TStone, at: 2007/05/01 00:59

Jan Kupka wrote:

Oh, I did not know that. Because I tried the upgrade feature to get from version 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 without success. But perhaps it will work next time. Thanks for your reply! :-)

In the upgrade files in the upgrade folder, there is a file name, &quot;joomsef_cpanel.php.php&quot; that has a &quot;.php&quot; too many. As in:



Might this be why I can't make the upgrade feature work?

mike wrote:


Ah, yes, that would explain the silence. Thanks Mike.

I don't think I'll go for the paid support mail on this question. Since JSMF isn't mentioned by name in connection to the extension, I think I can take it for granted that it doesn't work with JSMF.

I'm sorry that I'm returning to this topic, but I'd really appreciate some kind of response. I'd be happy to buy the SMF addition, but I'd prefer not to throw money away if it is known that it only works with one specific bridge.

David Thomas wrote:


Yes, that would be what Google webmastertools recommend, 404 or 301 - while it doesn't seem to like 200 at all. The validation of identity for Google Webmastertools is to upload a file with a specific name - then it check if the file exist on my server, as well as asking for a few non-existing files. If the first says Yes, and the second says No - then I'm accepted as being me. That method of validation has not worked since installing 404 redirect handler, because of return code 200

Hello again,

I've run a few SEO diagnosis tools on my site, and several of them are saying:
------------------------------------------------------------
404 Check: FAILED
You are not returning a 404 error on non-existent pages. This means google could cache a large number of useless, duplicate pages on your site. Example:
www.YourSite.com/afgahsdfjkahsdfjkasdhfjaksdhfasdjf.html
----------------------------------------------------------

...That doesn't sound good. Is there cause to be worried?
-Tom

So... I guess that the answer to that question is &quot;no&quot; ?

David Thomas wrote:


Ah.. because I downloaded it and checked the version number within the XML file, just to make sure that it wasn't a new file on an older page. And as that also says v. 1.1...

Anyway, great work! :-)
-Tom

Does Artio's commersial SMF JoomSEF extension work with Joomlahacks SMF bridge?

David Thomas wrote:


Where can this be found?
On extensions.joomla.org is a link to a download page, but the version listed on that page is still version 1.1, and there is not a single clue on how to find version 1.2.

-Tom