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URL and Alias problem
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:51 pm
by mikelamar
Hello guys,
Although my SEO settings (global configuration) are all turned to YES, htaccess.txt renamed to .htaccess and all my article's alias are set, it doesn't seem to work at my url bar
My site is
http://www.afoikanavitsa.gr
When I select the "
ΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΣΕΛΙΔΑ" from the menu (which means
Home Page) my URL=
http://www.afoikanavitsa.gr/2011-12-06-18-02-09.html although it should be
http://www.afoikanavitsa.gr/home
Does any of you have any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:56 am
by imanickam
In the Global Configuration, in the section SEO Settings, change the value of the option Unicode Alisases and see what happens. What is the setting you currently have?
After making the option change, remove the alias from the menu item and save it for the option to work.
Note: In your case, as the language you are using is non-Latin based, there could be an issue as the logic will not translate the menu item title. What you could do is to type the alias ("Home") yourself manually instead of leaving it for the system to fill the alias automatically.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:16 am
by mikelamar
Tnx a lot m8 you are great. When I changed the menu alias, was fixed! But it was not possible to add alias to my language(greek), when I saved it in greek it changed it to numbers.
Another thing, how I can get rid of the suffix .html from there?
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:15 pm
by imanickam
In the Global Configuration, in the section SEO Settings, change the value of the parameter Add suffix to URLs to No.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:23 pm
by mikelamar
Any idea about Alias in greek, why isn't accepting non latin characters?
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:25 am
by imanickam
Try the extension Unicode slugs SEF (
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... /sef/10275).
What about getting in Joomla!™ accented urls (for those using a latin alphabet) or with your own language glyphs (in Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, etc.)?
Until now Joomla was only proposing ASCII urls when using its native SEF. Titles (articles, menu items, etc.) were replaced by a date in the alias when written in a non-latin alphabet.
Grace to this system plugin, we have no more transliteration, spaces as well as special forbidden characters are transformed to hyphens.
Wikipedia demonstrates this in Persian:
http://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/فارسي
is in fact:
http://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8% ... 8%B3%D9%8A
Google has no problem searching or referencing such links.
The url to an article describing this plugin functionnalities is
http://info-graf.fr/infografcvs/des-url ... eauté.html
Caps as well as the accented letters are kept in the url.
Tip: Browsers behave differently when copying such urls. Firefox will copy the unicode format while Opera will get the original glyphs.
Caution:
1. This plugin loads a modified version of the class « Jfilteroutput » (libraries/joomla/filter/filteroutput.php). While this class has not been modified since 2007/03/15, it could be in the future and therefore necessitate an update of this plugin.
2.Some 3pd extensions may have modified this class for their own needs through JExtend. Therefore, there could be incompatibility as this plugin loads last.
PS: English and French language included.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:08 am
by mikelamar
I tried this but Im getting "404 - Component not found" when writting alias in greek.
Anyway I dont mind very much right now.
You are very helpful m8 thank you very much.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:15 pm
by imanickam
You are very welcome... Glad to be of help. However, you issue has not been addressed fully.
Suggest, posting your question about the extension Unicode Slug Plugin at
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 89&start=0.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:26 pm
by mikelamar
Oh sure I'm going to
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:50 pm
by infograf768
mikelamar wrote:I tried this but Im getting "404 - Component not found" when writting alias in greek.
Anyway I dont mind very much right now.
You are very helpful m8 thank you very much.
The important to check is
2.Some 3pd extensions may have modified this class for their own needs through JExtend. Therefore, there could be incompatibility as this plugin loads last.
This could lead to your 404.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:33 pm
by CarolWales
I clicked on your website's url; it is working fine. For the url issue you mentioned, I think it will be best to contact your web hosting provider to get a definite answer.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 2:00 pm
by stavroch
I have the same issue. I have set ON the Unicode Aliases to Yes but the urls alias are in date format.
Re: URL and Alias problem
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:37 am
by infograf768
In 2.5 and 3.x alias unicode is part of core.