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emo
JoomSEF 3.6.2 worked just fine but after I upgraded to 3.6.3 my support page at interactiveonline.com/support stopped showing the CSS style sheets elements. I had to revert back to the previous version in the meantime. Attached is a screenshot of what the new version does to the page.

The support page uses WHMCS and the J!WHMCS Joomla extension which doesn't have a JoomSEF extension, but it was working previously.

I thought the problem was within the template since it pulls the css using the following:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="templates/jwhmcs-portal/style.css" />

So I tried to uses the following but it still does not working:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="interactiveonline.com/support/templates/...rtal/style.css" />

Any ideas?

Also I've notice some very high MySQL usage related to the the JoomSEF extension. I've seen MySQL usage spike to over 300% when only a few pages are being viewed. The site is on a powerful server so I know that it not the problem.

Every time I check "mysqladmin processlist" during the time MySQL usage is 100%+ its always JoomSEF causing the high usage.

What can be done to reduce the load the extension causes on the server?
JoomSEF 3.6.3 breaks ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
I think this might be a problem with JoomRSS. I tried ArticleGenerator instead and it doesn't give me these problems. I'll post further info with what I discover after further testing.
URL Not Rewritten Co ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
Problem has appeared again with some newly created articles. I use JoomRSS to import articles from RSS feeds into Joomla.

Checkout interactiveonline.com/web-design and the following articles which JoomSEF is rewriting as interactiveonline.com/web-design

I cannot turn JoomSEF off since this is a live site but I did just to get the real links for each article so we can troubleshoot this.

20 Fonts Ideal For The iPhone And Other Mobile Screens
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

48 Hours Left! Here’s one more (easy) way to win
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

16+3 Brands You Should Consider For Your Next Startup
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

Giveaway! Free Custom 18×24 Poster Print
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business
interactiveonline.com/index.php?option=c...design&Itemid=18

I notice all of the above are from the RSS feed feeds2.feedburner.com/prlamnguyen

I did notice this same behavior with other articles from another RSS feed at feeds2.feedburner.com/webdesignerdepot

One thing that puzzles me is the articles are just fine if JoomSEF is not on. If I turn JoomSEF on it rewrites the URLs with the URL of the category as interactiveonline.com/web-design


Also DocMan Categories do not get their URLs rewritten correctly. Docman gets rewritten at interactiveonline.com/docman/ but both categories you see there “Tax Forms” and “General” both get written as interactiveonline.com/docman/

Any ideas?
URL Not Rewritten Co ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
I fixed the particular problem by just deleting the articles completely, re-importing them using JoomRSS, purging SEF URLs and then accessing the blog pages again.

Strange problem but I got it fixed.
URL Not Rewritten Co ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
I am running the latest version of JoomSEF and have been using it for years so I am familiar with how to purge and recreate the SEF URLs.

I have a strange problem at interactiveonline.com/web-design/

I have the JoomSEF config setup to hide the section so instead it just shows the category.

Looking at the individual article URLs at interactiveonline.com/web-design/ most are rewritten as interactiveonline.com/web-design/ when they should be rewritten as in this example at interactiveonline.com/web-design/attract...-with-jquery-uniform

I've tried purging SEF URLs and Cache and then accessing each category you see at interactiveonline.com/blog showing "ALL" articles so each article can be rewritten to the JoomSEF database.

I initially had some problems with the category interactiveonline.com/web-design/ (and other categories) being rewritten at first but fixed it by finding the interactiveonline.com/web-design/ (or other category) SEF URL within JoomSEF and clicking Publish next to the entry so it was active

QUESTION: Why aren't all SEF URLs active by default?

But still the individual SEF URLs in the /web-design category don't get rewritten. In fact I don't even see those as rewritten URLs within JoomSEF.

I only have this problem with the /web-design category as you can see there are no probelms with other categories such as interactiveonline.com/joomla/

What is the difference between Purging SEF URLs and Clearing Cache within JoomSEF?

What exactly does "Update SEF URLs" do?

Any ideas how to fix it?
URL Not Rewritten Co ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
It would be nice if you could import 301 URLs in bulk but I could not find a way via the JoomSEF admin area.

I had tons of 301 redirects I needed to specify and entering them 1 by 1 via JoomSEF was too time consuming so I wanted to share how I accomplished this using a MySQL command.

I logged into PhpMyAdmin to access my Joomla database, clicked SQL and entered the following command:

 
INSERT INTO `jos_sefmoved` (old, new, lastHit) VALUES ('blog/designing-a-website', 'web-design/designing-a-website', '0000-00-00 00:00:00');
 
INSERT INTO `jos_sefmoved` (old, new, lastHit) VALUES ('general/designing-a-website', 'web-design/designing-a-website', '0000-00-00 00:00:00');
 
INSERT INTO `jos_sefmoved` (old, new, lastHit) VALUES ('blog/spam-traffic-increases', 'general/spam-traffic-increases', '0000-00-00 00:00:00');
 


I then clicked Go and above 3 entries were added as Rows within the table.
HOW TO: Bulk Add 301 ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
ok well a sitemap is not going to list the 2,000+ articles I have on the site but I did find a workaround.

I just need to go to Blog > Joomla and then select Show All From the list which shows links to all articles in this category

This re-creates all of the SEF URLs for that particular category.

Thanks for your help!
SEF URLs do not work ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
I do have a sitemap created using the Joomla extension Xmap at interactiveonline.com/sitemap

The Blog link is in the sitemap. If you go to the blog there is a Category Module that displays the Categories such as Joomla. It seems as if JoomSEF is not finding these links as you suggested having a sitemap would do.

Also you stated “JoomSEF generates the SEF URL for each link first time it finds it in HTML source code.”

Does this mean after I purge the SEF URLs JoomSEF starts to spider the site again and creates the SEF URLs?

Well it’s not doing this. In order to re-create the SEF URLs I need to click on the category in the blog and then click each article.

Google has already spidered my site and many articles are on page 1. The URL that Google listed for each article is the same URL JoomSEF re-creates once I click on the article within my site. Any external accesses to the SEF URL don’t work until I first click the internal link on my site.

Here’s another example which is listed in Google at www.google.pl/search?client=firefox-a&am...btnG=Szukaj+w+Google (5th result down). If the viewer clicks on my search result in google, it returns File Not Found on my site. The only way to get it to work right now is to go to BLOG > Joomla > Filter for article and then click on the article link.

Then when I go to google again at www.google.pl/search?client=firefox-a&am...btnG=Szukaj+w+Google and click on my search results the URL works just fine.

Something isn’t right here. Please advise. Thanks for your help!
SEF URLs do not work ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
Joomla 1.5.14
JoomSEF 3.3.2

I have this strange behavior on my site. I have thousands of articles posted to my blog at interactiveonline.com/blog

"Blog" is the Section and the Categories you see in the module in the right column called Categories are Joomla Categories of the Section "Blog". I am not using any third party blog extension, just normal Joomla Section, Categories and Articles.

After I purge the SEF URLs from the JoomSEF control panel my SEF URLS no longer work... so the organic traffic I get from the search engines return FILE NOT FOUND.

The only way I have found to get the article(s) SEF URLs working is to go to the blog, click the category the article is in, filter to view the correct article and then click on it. Once I click on it it shows the article correctly. Also the traffic coming from the search engines can now see the article.

Something doesn't seem right about that. I shoudn't have to go click every article on my site everytime i purge the SEF URLs.

Here's an example which I didn’t search and click on the article yet

Title: What is Kunena?
URL: interactiveonline.com/joomla/what-is-kunena

Do I have to wait for the SEF URL extension to rewrite the URLs? I thought this was done instantaeously when the URL is accessed? Strange I have to click each one to get the SEF URLs working.

Any ideas?
SEF URLs do not work ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
That fixed it! Thanks!

I changed "Parse Joomla SEO links?" to No and it works now!
404 File Not Found - ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
Yes tried various IDs for the 404 article. Currently I have it set to ID 5891

I also changed my JoomSEF config to display the Default 404 Page which is ID 5891

Pages that don't exist such as interactiveonline.com/not-here return the correct 404 page above.

Other URLs that are sub-folders within other folders such as interactiveonline.com/solutions/not-here and interactiveonline.com/blog/not-here still return the error:

404 - Article #0 not found
404 File Not Found - ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
I have article #0 created. It's the 404 Page but for some reason it still continues to show the error.

Any further ideas?
404 File Not Found - ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
I am using Joomla 1.5.14

I had to revert back to using JoomSEF 3.3.2 because upgrading to 3.3.6 messed up my SEF URLs.

I tried this in the past and had the same problem.

Go to interactiveonline.com and look at the very top toolbar where it says FORUM | BLOG | DIRECTORY

Using version 3.3.2 the URLs show as follows which are correct since these are the Aliases specified in the menu items for each:

FORUM interactiveonline.com/forum
BLOG interactiveonline.com/blog
DIRECTORY interactiveonline.com/directory

After upgrading to 3.3.6 the URLs show as follows intead:

FORUM interactiveonline.com/kunena
BLOG interactiveonline.com/content
DIRECTORY interactiveonline.com/mtree

I purged SEF URLs and cache and still no luck.

It seems as if JoomSEF no longer uses the Menu Item > Alias to write the URL in version 3.3.6

Any ideas?
Incorrect SEF URLs a ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
Please move to correct forum. I think I posted this to the incorrect one. It's not an extension problem but a problem with the Paid version of JoomSEF.
404 File Not Found - ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
I am running the following:

Joomla 1.5.14
Artio JoomSEF 3.3.6
Kunena Extension 2.0.3

I just upgraded to the new versionm of JoomSEF and Kunena Extension and now my forum link gets rewritten as interactiveonline.com/kunena instead of interactiveonline.com/forum which is what the alias shows for the menu item FORUM on our site.

Yes I tried purging SEF URLs and Joomla cache.

Any ideas how to get this fixed?
Kunena Problem after ...
Category: Extensions
emo
I am using Joomla 1.5.14 and Artio JoomSEF v3.3.6

Within my JoomSEF config I have under the "404 Page" section the following:

Show page: Front Page
Show 404 Message: No
Record 404 Page

Also under "Default 404 Page ItemID" I have the HOME menu item selected.

This works on most pages but not all of them

For example interactiveonline.com/folder-not-here does redirect the viewer to the FrontPage but the URL interactiveonline.com/blog/not-here returns the error:

-------------------------------
404 - Article #0 not found
You may not be able to visit this page because of:

an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
a search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site
a mistyped address
you have no access to this page
The requested resource was not found.
An error has occurred while processing your request.
Please try one of the following pages:

Home Page
If difficulties persist, please contact the System Administrator of this site.

Article #0 not found
-------------------------------

The page just shows the error message, nothing else. I need it to at least show my site structure such as the top menu items so I created an article called FILE NOT FOUND with ID 0 but still the error comes up.

Any ideas how to fix this?
404 File Not Found - ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
PHP is in cgi mode
Joomla 1.5.8
Artio JoomSEF 3.1.2
JoomSEF Fireboard Extension 2.0.0

I got everything working but the site name "Interactive Online" is duplicated in the title on the browser.

An example is at interactiveonline.com/forum/general-disc...place-to-buy-domains

This is only on forum posts, not the entire site or the main page of the forum at interactiveonline.com/forum

I remember I had this problem with my entire site a few weeks ago and I changed a setting within artio JoomSEF but can't remeber what it was... but the problem still occurs on fireboard URLs.

Any ideas?
Duplicate Title in F ...
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
Does anyone know exactly what i need to change or add in my .htaccess file to accomplish this? Here's my current .htaccess file:

##
# @version $Id: htaccess.txt 9975 2008-01-30 17:02:11Z ircmaxell $
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Joomla! is Free Software
##


#####################################################
# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE
#
# The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems
# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
#
#####################################################

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
# Options +FollowSymLinks

#
# mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On


# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /


########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section


########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
#
# Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#
########## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
301 URLs for Images
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
Shouldn't I be able to use 301 redirects to forward interactiveonline.com/affiliates/banners/ioc_banner_468x60b.gif to interactiveonline.com/images/stories/ban...c_banner_468x60b.gif ?

I tried to add the following to Artio JoomSEF 301 URLs but it just returns FILE NOT FOUND if you access interactiveonline.com/affiliates/banners/ioc_banner_468x60b.gif

Shouldn't I be able to create 301 URLs for images?

I'm using:
Joomla 1.5.6
PHP 4.4.4
Artio JoomSEF v3.1.2

Any ideas?
301 URLs for Images
Category: JoomSEF 3
emo
Ok I see I can redirect an old URL to a new URL using the "View/Edit 301 Urls " section within artio.

One thing I notice is if I am using a directory for SEF such as interactiveonline.com/solutions or interactiveonline.com/blog if someone tries to access a page within those directories that does not exist it does not take them to the frontpage as I have the 404 configured to do so within artio.

A non-existant page outside of those folder such as interactiveonline.com/some-page.htm does work correctlyl and takes the viewer to the frontpage but interactiveonline.com/blog/some-page.htm or interactiveonline.com/solutions/some-page.htm does not. Instead it takes them to some generic "404 - Article #0 not found" page.

Any ideas as to how I can get this fixed?
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