problem with SEO by Artio and my homepage in iJoomla

gadabout · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 5

I'm using iJoomla on my website, and it was working great, and I use it as my front-page.

But...I installed the SEO and SEF by Artio (http://www.artio.cz/en/joomla-extensions/artio-joomsef
)

And...now...it all still works except my main domain. If I click on 'home' in my website it will go to the iJoomla as my frontpage.

But...if I just type in just my main website domain, without anything after it...it goes to the regular Joomla frontpage...which I don't want it to. I want iJoomla to always be my front page.

My webaddress: www.gadabout.biz if you just type that in, you will see the joomla regular front page.

If you then click on 'home' on the top menu it goes to the iJoomla front page...

How do I get even the base domain to also go to the iJoomla front page? It used to...but not since I installed the SEF/SEO stuff...

Michelle

gadabout · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 5

Also...

I already read this post on the exact same topic...
http://www.ijoomla.com/option,com_forum/Itemid,70/page,
viewtopic/t,4188/highlight,sef/

And I did all these things...iJoomla is set as my homepage in the settings for iJoomla...

And I put iJoomla as the first item on both my mainmenu and my topmenu...

And I'm still having issues...just exactly as the person in that thread above did...

If I type in: www.gadabout.biz/home/ It will forward to iJoomla as it should.

But, if I type in www.gadabout.biz/
or: www.gadabout.biz/index.php

It won't forward, and instead goes to the default regular frontpage for JOOMLA.

I don't know why this is...i tried putting in a custom redirect in the Artio component stuff, but that didn't work either...

Not sure what to do....
Michelle

gadabout · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 5

OK...I manged to fix it...so in case you're having the same issues...here is how I fixed it...

I had the JOOMLA front page on my main menu and my top menu. In both I had put the iJoomla as the first item. But, I don't even use the main menu. I only use the top menu on my site.

I had moved the iJoomla up to the number 1 postion on both those menus anyhow, and made it my homepage in the iJoomla configuration.

But, still, if I typed in www.gadabout.biz/home then iJoomla came up, and if I typed in www.gadabout.biz/ then the regular JOOMLA frontpage came up...I couldn't figure out why, and then I did...

I had unpublished the regular JOOMLA front-page from my top menu, as I use that menu on my webpage. And, then, on that menu only the iJoomla was published.

But...I hadn't done that on my main menu, as I don't even use the main menu on my website. I didn't know it would matter since I don't use that menu at all anywhere. I only use the top menu. So while the regular front page was unpublished on my top menu (which I use) it was still published to my main menu (which I don't use).

So, I just went in and saw that on the main menu the regular JOOMLA front-page was still published (though it was #3 down the list, and iJoomla was the first item on that list...but both were published on that list).

So, I unpublished it, and voila! No problem anymore.

I hadn't realized that would cause an issue, particularly considering I don't even use the main menu. I only use my top menu. I guess one just has to check all their menus, whether they're using them or not, and 'unpublish' the front-page option, and to move the iJoomla into the first postion...even if they're not using that menu...

Thanks
Michelle

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