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Hello members,

I have all three SEF settings in Joomla 1.5.3 global configuration working with Apache 2.2 but when I move it over to a Windows IIS server, only the front page displays. All other pages error due to no page found.

i.e. http://www.domain.ext/1-section/2-catag ... ticle.html

Now, I do have the Joomla web site working correctly on IIS with only the first SEF option ON and mod_rewrite & add sufix turned OFF.

i.e. http://www.domain.ext/index.php/1-secti ... /3-article

But my understanding is search engines truncate the path after a file name and therefore, my current configuration is not SEO.

I have found some postings but their information is dated before 1.5.3. If anyone knows of any recent posting, PDFs or links that provides some insight to setting up SEF using IIS, you help would be appreciated, thanks.

Hello,
Sorry for my Ignorance. I am entirely new to SEF. I have a bit different question
I have installed Joomla SEF component on my site which have joomla version 1.0.13, because someone told me that with joomla SEF I can create SEF(Search Engine Friendly) URL's and additionally I can also set Different Page Titles, Meta Description and Meta Keywords with it(at edit SEF urls section) which is very important for SEO purpose. I created SEF urls easily with Joomla SEF but I also set different Titles per different page at the same time I did disable Title at sites Global Configuration so that it will show Title only from Joomla SEF. But I found that it doesnot works properly for all pages and for most of the pages it is not showing Page Title at all and for many other pages it stills shows old title. There are more than 100 pages at my site.
Can anyone please advice/suggest me what is exactly cause of this Title problem and what I need to do in order to work it perfectly?
Thanks.

Regards
ninad

i tried it on a windows shared server and unfortunately it doesn't work. i tried it on yahoo small business server actually

i also want sef without mod_rewrite for joomla 1.5 for IIS 6 server

Hello all,


my site details are like this
PHP Built on: Windows NT IIS410 5.2 build 3790

Database Version: 5.0.41-community-log

Database Collation: utf8_general_ci

PHP Version: 4.4.7

Web Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi

Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.8 Production/Stable [ Wohnaiki ]


as u said to make changes the .sef file , but first of all in joomla 1.5.8 there is no sef.php file in includes directory.
it is located at different different locations and there are more than one sef files.
and the most imporatnt thing is the code do not match with joomla's older version, so i don't understand where should i write the code so i skip it.

i found some information to run sef on IIS as this........

" ISAPI_Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on regular expressions. It acts mostly like Apache's mod_Rewrite, but is designed specifically for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS).
ISAPI_Rewrite is an ISAPI filter written in pure C/C++ so it is extremely fast. ISAPI_Rewrite gives you the freedom to go beyond the standard URL schemes and develop your own scheme. "

but my problem is that it is not possible to install this(ISAPI_Rewrite) on server.

so now only you can help me to come out from this problem.
i hope you will reply me and pls reply me.

i tried it but it doesn't work for my joomla 1.5.

Definitely worked for me with 1.5 while our client didn't have a mod_rewrite clone for windows available.

I am assuming that you have teh SEF options in Joomla's config enabled?

If yes, then it may be that your server isn't populating the same environment variables. I would suggest putting together a simple PHP script that just calls:

phpinfo();

(call it something like info.php).

Then make a request to your server with: http://domain/info.php/junk/path

Once the page renders, search for "junk/path" in your environment variables and use that instead of PATH_INFO. (This is effectively what I did to find that PATH_INFO worked for me).

Z