First look at AceSEF Configuration

First look at AceSEF Configuration

After you install AceSEF component as an usual Joomla! Extension, go to AceSEF control panel. The panel is user friendly and apprehensible. At the right, there are three vertical tabs:

Welcome to AceSEF: Shows your AceSEF version and copyrights
Statistics: Shows SEF URLs, custom URLs, 404 URLs and URL repository number
Donate: You can make a donation for this project. For this, click “donate” icon


Main control panel icons:

Configuration

It's AceSEF's main configuration. There isn't too much parameter so, the component is 100% modular.

Main Configuration

Enable AceSEF: You can enable or disable AceSEF URL rewriting here. But you must enable Search Engine Friendly URLs and Use Apache mod_rewrite = YES from Joomla! global configuration for enabling AceSEF. If you use SEF links first, make htaccess.txt to .htaccess that on your main Joomla! folder. You don't need to add any code to .htaccess file for AceSEF. It works with Joomla's core htaccess file.

Lowercase URLs: If you select yes, all chars in sef urls will be lowercase. Otherwise, they will just like content title.

For example, article title is “Team Members”
If lowercase URL is no, url will be: “Team-Members.html”
If yes: “team-members.html”

Numeral duplicated URLs: If set to yes, a numeral suffix will be added to duplicated urls like Artio Joomsef. Select “no” because Google doesn't like duplicated urls. You will be able to select main url from link management.

URL Suffix: If it's blank, there won't be an suffix on sef links. Generally “.html” is used.

For example, article title is “Team Members”
If it's blank, url will be: “team-members”
If you write here “.html” : “team-members.html”

Menu URL part: You can use title or alias titles for menu URLs. Also, you can disable menu name on “Routers” page. Make “Skip prefix / menu” = “No” for this.

Generator tag: Joomla! adds a meta tag by default that shows your site use Joomla!. You can change this “Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management” writing.


JoomFish Configuration

AceSEF supports JoomFish component that is a multi-language extension. If you use JoomFish, you can select your site's main language. If you don't use JoomFish, this section is not important for you, you can skip it.


Advanced Configuration

Remove trailing slash: If you select ”No”, category links will have a trailing slash at the end of url. If your site is new, this is not important for SEO but if you used to another SEF component, set this parameter same. Because, search engines sense them 2 different page.

For example, category name is “Support”
If it's yes, url will be: “support”
If no : “support/”

Strip characters: There are some chars here by default. They are unnecessary chars and will be deleted from links. You can add chars that you want to delete them.

Char replacement list: Unlike strip characters, you can change a char to another char. It's important for non-English sites but you don't need to add anything here. All necessary replacements added here by default.

Parameters in URL: This is for example with the template of RocketTheme where you can switch fontsizes with a generate link of RocketTheme. Seperate each value on each line. Example of rocket theme is: fontsize

Log 404 errors: You can log 404 errors in a physical file. If you set it yes, make sure 404 errors file path is valid.

404 errors file: This file is must be writable. Make folders' and files' chmod 707 or 777. Example path for Linux server: /home/accountname/public_html/acesef/logs/acesef_404.log

404 Page Tab: You can write a content with your HTML editor that shows if an url returns 404 page.