No, I hear what you are saying and I know VM is a pile when it comes to Joomla add-on's but unfortunately, it's what we are stuck with. I think JOOMSEF is a great product, don't get me wrong. I'm just frustrated with trying to make all this work together. Once we have a better alternative to VM, who knows, I will probably be back looking at JoomSEF again.

All the best,

Craig

Regarding your google links concern. I started on sh404sef. I had over 6000 google links to my site. Google loved me, but sh404sef decided to start charging so I started looking around and found joomsef. While Artio also cost money, it seemed like a better product so I switched.

I now have about 122 links to my site on Google. The move away from sh404sef KILLED my Google presence. I came humbly crawling back and paid them the $35 - after I had probably spent three times that with joomsef.

I don't know if I can ever get back to 6000+ links but I know what got me there the first time and I'm giving it another shot.

Best of luck!

Craig

I posted that concern four days ago and just heard back today that I will have to pay to get this fixed. Three days I ago, after I had heard nothing and my production site was suffering and I was potentially losing money, I went and bought sh404sef for $35 (no nickel and dime for other plugins and support hours). After a few hours of tweaking it is doing everything I needed it to. I think joomsef is slightly faster and I like the design better but a 4 day turn on a production issue and then being told I have to pay money to fix a bug is very frustrating.
I should not have had to pay you guys to sef child products on the vm plug-in.

I am spending my time telling you this so that you can re-think your timeliness and approach to helping customers with their production issues.

Good luck and best wishes,

Craig

david wrote:


Sorry this forum is throwing me off and I'm replying in the wrong place. I tried the above and it didn't fix the problem. Any other thoughts?

That didn't work. I am still getting non-sef urls. Any other ideas?

Thanks David. What are the drawbacks of enabling "Redirect nonSEF URLs to SEF?" I'm assuming there are some since it's not enabled by default. I seem to recall there was something but can't remember specifically what problems I've had with this enabled.

Thanks,

craig

Virtuemart allows you to have a parent and children products so that you can enter a product once and then have children that have all the same values except flavor or size for example.

If you visit www.musclespoon.com/protein/whey-isolate...-the-isolate-gainer] www.musclespoon.com/protein/whey-isolate...t-the-isolate-gainer you will see a parent product with child products (flavors) in the drop down. JOOMSEF is not SEFing the child URLS. To see this, select a flavor from the dropdown from the link above and let it load.

I was up until 4:30AM Playing with this. I uninstalled joomsef and re-installed SH404SEF. sh404sef SEF'd the urls correclty, but what a wake up call - sh404sef was so much slower. - ouch....

I'm assuming there is either a work-around or the virtuemart plugin needs some tweaking.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Craig

Virtuemart allows you to have a parent and children products so that you can enter a product once and then have children that have all the same values except flavor or size for example.

If you visit www.musclespoon.com/protein/whey-isolate...t-the-isolate-gainer you will see a parent product with child products (flavors) in the drop down. JOOMSEF is not SEFing the child URLS. To see this, select a flavor from the dropdown from the link above and let it load.

I was up until 4:30AM Playing with this. I uninstalled joomsef and re-installed SH404SEF. sh404sef SEF'd the urls correclty, but what a wake up call - sh404sef was so much slower. - ouch....

I'm assuming there is either a work-around or the virtuemart plugin needs some tweaking.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Craig

musclespoon wrote:


NOTE I am in the middle of playing with it now so the link above may be broken. I will re-post this once I have it stable.

If you visit www.musclespoon.com/protein/whey-isolate...n-elite-whey-isolate
you will see the problem straight away. This url is SEF - great. Select another flavor from the dropdown - goodbye sef.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Craig

I had 6000+ links on google when i had sh404sef. I switched to JoomSEF and I now have 110 links on Google. The "Not Founds" and redirects are killing me. I don't know why one SEF URL is redirecting to another SEF URL. I don't know why an SEF URL is redirecting to a non-SEF directory. I don't know why I have all these 'bad' links being crawled now on my site.

I imagine it may be problems with how I've configured it but here's what I know:

Google hates redirects.
Google webmaster reports 4900 bad links on the site. I don't know where they are even finding these links on my site. (Sample below)

My site is dying. I spent a year building up the presence on Google and now it's gone. I keep trying to fix it but it's just not getting better.

I've run the w3c link checker and it reports a ton of redirects like:
warning Line: 1456 www.musclespoon.com/hormone-related/ster...elated/cycle-support redirected to www.musclespoon.com/index.php?page=shop....emart&Itemid=776
Status: 301 -> 200 OK

This is a permanent redirect. The link should be updated.
warning Line: 735 www.musclespoon.com/protein/whey-other redirected to www.musclespoon.com/index.php?page=shop....emart&Itemid=741
Status: 301 -> 200 OK

This is a permanent redirect. The link should be updated.

I don't want any redirects because Google hates them.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Craig

Samples:
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/capsules-97 404 (Not found) 4 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/capsules-98 404 (Not found) 4 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/capsules-99 404 (Not found) 4 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-14 404 (Not found) 1 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-15 404 (Not found) 1 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-16 404 (Not found) 1 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-17 404 (Not found) 1 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-18 404 (Not found) 1 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-19 404 (Not found) 1 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-20 404 (Not found) 2 pages Mar 26, 2010
Go to URLwww.musclespoon.com/amino-acids/liquid-22 404 (Not found) 2 pages Mar 26, 2010

Ok - thanks for the quick response!

Excellent catch! You are right. I just tried it with a non-admin account and it worked but not due to the index vs index2.php page. It seems to have something to do with the other arguments like pshop_mode=admin.

Anyways, I won't worry too much about it since I am the only one who will have problems as the admin.

I will apply any changes you make and help you test any solutions.

Thanks,

Craig

I have the same thing happening with me. On the order receipt there is a link at the bottom for customers to view and print their orders. This is the link: /index2.php?page=order.order_print&order_id=20012590&pshop_mode=admin&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=93.

Fatal error: Call to a member function toString() on a non-object in /home1/chilibea/public_html/libraries/joomla/methods.php on line 55

With JOOMSEF turned off, the link successfully goes to a login page so that the user can check their order status.