When I enable Search Engine Friendly URL’s (SEF) from Global Configuration / SEO Settings, search on my site does not works anymore. I get follwing error;
Page not found
The page you are looking for might have been removed,
had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
URL at that moment;
http://www.onzedieren.nl/component/search/%252F#content
When I disable SEF then serach works fine. :((
URL at that moment is;
http://www.onzedieren.nl/index.php?searchword=test&ordering=&searchphrase=all&option=com_search
uniquebiz
Friend
Have you renamed the htaccess.txt file ?
yes
when SEF is enabled ___ url’s are looking fine
uniquebiz
Friend
is this the full url that leads to the page you cannot view?
http://www.onzedieren.nl/component/search/252F-content
compare with the sef url
http://www.onzedieren.nl/component/search/%252F#content
notice the % sign and the # ? the % sign usually means there is a space in the url and the # just maybe a typo for -?
If you are using a non english language it may account for the different characters I see
please check the article name in the secondary title field in the article panel ( alias) for spaces, generally in the english sef if there is a space the sef replaces it with a ” – ” check this article alias and have no spaces between words, you manually insert a “-” between words to test
and if it works great if not we can look elsewhere
Blessings Shannon
When SEF is disabled ___ I search a word “test” ___ I get all results and I see the following url;
_____http://www.onzedieren.nl/index.php?searchword=test&ordering=&searchphrase=all&option=com_search#content
When SEF is enabled ___ I search a word “test” ___ I get error [page not found . . .] and I see the following url;
_____http://www.onzedieren.nl/component/search/%252F#content
uniquebiz
Friend
as I said in my previous post the % sign in a url indicates there is a space somewhere throwing the retrival out
Saguaros
Moderator
this ‘s a difficult bug, pls give us full account information we’ll check this issue
Thanks
<em>@uniquebiz 184195 wrote:</em><blockquote>as I said in my previous post the % sign in a url indicates there is a space somewhere throwing the retrival out</blockquote>
No space in any URL.
When SEF is disabled ___ URL’s are not Search Engine Friendly ___ but ___ Search works fine.
When SEF is enabled ___ URL’s are Search Engine Friendly ___ but ___ Search does NOT work.
Saguaros
Moderator
Yes, i known that pls submit a ticket , our developers will check this issue.
thanks
After sending the post I was busy to find out the problem.
I found that the problem is resolved when I select ___ Add suffix to URLs to YES
So in other words;
when SEF is Yes and Add suffix to URLs is No _________ then I get error to use search
When SEF is Yes and Add suffix to URLs is Yes _________ All is OK 🙂
Thanks to everybody for the effort to help me.
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