Alias is not working

I have just upgraded to version 5.3.5, but I also had the following problem with version 5.3.3. Basically, it seems the Alias function does not work on my site.

Here is an example of what I would like to do:

When SEF Advance is off, my "vintages" page is at the following URL:

www.aeroswine.com/content/view/15/31/

So I set this up on the Alias & Meta page with the following as the Non-SEF URL:

content/view/15/31/

I alias to vintages.html, save and turn SEF Advance on which results in the following URL:

www.aeroswine.com/aeros-vintages/vintages/aeros-vintages/

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks,
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Tim

You need to enter non-sef URL.
Instead of: content/view/15/31/
you need: index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=31

Now I get it... I knew it was something simple.

One problem is I had Joomla's SE Friendly URL option on which messed up the URL's when SEF Advance was turned off.

Many thanks,
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Tim

Yes, you need to temporarily turn off SEF in global configurations in order to find out non-sef URL.

Hi,

I haven't got a really similar problem, but in my case, when I create an alias like this:

index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=163 to alias "Forum", so for this one it's work fine.

But all the others links inside the forum turn back to /option,com_smf/Itemid,163/board,12.0.html

Don't know how to solve this  :-\

Any idea Emir  ???

Thanks a lot

Greg

Of course they do. You can't create a general alias for all forum links. Alias must be entered manually for each link separately.

To integrate a component with SEF Advance automatically you need extension. For SMF Bridge there is an extension, look at the extensions page .