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Search Engine Friendly URLs problem in Joomla

Hi,

I have set up a site using Joomla and the K2 extension and I have Search Engine Friendly URLs turned ON.

All of the links from my main menu work fine but when I try and hit an actual item, I get the following error:

404 - Item not found

When I turn SEF urls OFF it works fine and loads the item. but I dont want to turn these off.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Gopinathan c

Please check the query string passing same for all the menus. that name passes alias name so please check it. other wise we need to hack it in htaccess. file

Eternal_Student

ASKER

Hi Rashgang, can you explain how I check this?

Gopinathan c

It will search for the alias name that is given for the article or menu name

for example

domain.com/index.php/services.html
or
domain.com/services/main.html

Gopinathan c

can you post the live url?

Eternal_Student

ASKER

try either 1 of these links:

http://tinyurl.com/4ncf63l

Gopinathan c

can you tell me which one is causing problem

Eternal_Student

ASKER

Click either of the content links on the above link and you will get to the error page.

404 - Item not found

Gopinathan c

please post the links i have tested it nothing given 404 error

Eternal_Student

ASKER

If you click this link:

http://tinyurl.com/4ncf63l

Then you will see that there are 2 items under the drawing category, both of which go to a 404 page.

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Gopinathan c

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Eternal_Student

ASKER

I really didnt want to install an extension to fix this problem, surely it is something I can do with the settings?

Eternal_Student

ASKER

Any ideas on what I can try?

Gopinathan c

Please put any non-commercial components artiosef component even me also having the same trouble we cant get the correct sef url using joomla default sef bcoz it has written like that.

Eternal_Student

ASKER

didn't really understand what you just said?!?

Gopinathan c

Even me also having the same trouble when enabling default joomla sef component. You MUST PUT ANY
any non-commercial components.

This is the best non-commercial component

Artio sef component