Joomla SEF not working properly

[michaeltheone]

Hello,

I have a problem with Joomla 2.5.22 SEF option within Joomla, i have activated SEF option and Rewrite friendly urls, for most pages it works fine but there are some pages not working when trying to visite some pages i recieve an 404 error.

The pages that shows a 404 error are active inside the admin side, but when i for example change the url with a number behind then it works? but when i completely change the url to something else then it won't work neither will it when i make a new page?

How can this be happening? below here i have posted our .htaccess

##
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2014 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
##

##
# 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

## 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 base64_encode data within the URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%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})
# Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
#
## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.

## Begin - Custom redirects
#
# If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to
# www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those
# redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.
#
## End - Custom redirects

##
# 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.
#
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request
# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
# and the request is for something within the component folder,
# or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the
# requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.

[dhuelsmann]

Do all of your pages have a menu link?

[michaeltheone]

Do all of your pages have a menu link?

Yes, they are sorted as direct article url/link and as category blogs in the menu's.

For example when i have url/link like this: http://www.yourwebsite.com/products/productname it used to work but now it won't and it will work again when i make a small change to the url/link like this: http://www.yourwebsite.com/products/productname-2 (adding a number) but thats not how i want it, so its very strange why some pages doesn't work anymore like they used to.. and only function again with a number behind.

[michaeltheone]

No one knows any possible solution? or could help us out with this?

[michaeltheone]

No one knows any possible solution? or could help us out with this?

[dhuelsmann]

You haven't really provided enough information. How about providing a link to your site and several actual example url's of your issue. Also, turn off sef and see if you can access those url's that are the issue without a 404 error.

Finally, bumping your topic is not allowed in the forums.

[michaeltheone]

You haven't really provided enough information. How about providing a link to your site and several actual example url's of your issue. Also, turn off sef and see if you can access those url's that are the issue without a 404 error.

Finally, bumping your topic is not allowed in the forums.

Hello,

Thanks for replying, here more information like link to our website: www.royalfireworks.nl

and here are some example urls which won't work when sef is on but do work when sef is off.

http://www.royalfireworks.nl/the-royal- ... /sunflower
http://www.royalfireworks.nl/the-royal- ... gainvillea
http://www.royalfireworks.nl/galaxy-col ... /confusion

and here some example links which do work with sef on:

http://www.royalfireworks.nl/galaxy-collection
http://royalfireworks.nl/the-royal-garden-collection

[michaeltheone]

No one knows any possible solution? or could help us out with this?

[dhuelsmann]

Is this a multi-language site?

[metoos]

Did you make any change in htaccess file ?