Sticky How to implement Search Engine Optimisation - SEO - in Joomla

There is nothing in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) that suggests you have to change anything in the file .htaccess; therefore you don't need to change the file .htaccess.

If you are getting "page not found" errors, it's because your menu items are wrong (or broken). That's a different topic. Please read the FAQs (see the menu tab on this page) and particularly the part about how to fix Kunena menu problems.

sozzled wrote: There are two questions here:
(2) How to make sure that the forum buttons do what they're supposed to do when you have SEO enabled: This is dealt with by making sure that you've properly setup your Kunena menu. See How do I restore my Kunena menu?

This has been my problem all along! Thanks!!!

I could hug you!!!! I've been trying to get this to work for soooooo long and you finally pointed out my simple problem. Thanks for sharing the links.

Thanks, but I only get the "page missing" when using the SEO-friendly links, if I switch back then the pages are all there fine.

I already have existing categories, topics and threads on the site, does this mean that all these need to have new SEO-friendly links put in? I assumed the site would sort it all out itself?

sozzled wrote: If you are getting "page not found" errors, it's because your menu items are wrong (or broken). That's a different topic. Please read the FAQs (see the menu tab on this page) and particularly the part about how to fix Kunena menu problems.

I've successfully upgraded from 1.5 do 1.7 and everything works like before (except login, I've just posted in another thread with that)

only problem is URL rewriting. on clean install of Kunena in clean Joomla, links are complete. I mean that if you are in site/Main/Category1/Subcategory1/topic#post you see it in URL. In my non-dev Kunena I see only site/subcategory/topic#post

settings are the same, but it doesn't work same.

any advice? thank you

For SEF URLs to work in Joomla you need to do two things:

(1) Enable Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

(2) Every Joomla component must have a menu item. These menu items don't have to be visibly displayed on your site, but they must exist and they must be published!

If you don't have a Joomla menu item, you won't get SEF URLs. If you don't setup Joomla SEO properly, you won't get SEF URLs. Make sure that you don't have any old menu items lurking in the menu trash. This is not a Kunena thing; this is a Joomla thing.