Bloggers Directory 404 error
By Anirudh Kumar on Wednesday, 29 January 2014
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I have disabled shef404 for easyblog component and I did purged all my old urls and cleared cache but Bloggers directory is not working.

i was trying to achieve here is make links as simple as possible at the moment this is how it is for a blogger http://www.mysite.org.nz/Members(menu)/blogger/listings/username do you think we can make it as http://www.mysite.com/listings/username(or)firstname?

Cheers.
Oh, you also need to edit /components/com_easyblog/router.php and locate the codes below at line 297



			if( $config->get( 'main_sef_unicode' ) )

			{

				// perform manual split on the string.

				if( isset($segments[2]) && $segments[2] == EasyBlogSEFTranslation::_( 'statistic' ) )

				{

					$permalinkSegment   = $rawSegments[1];

				}

				else

				{

					$permalinkSegment   = $rawSegments[ ( $count - 1 ) ];

				}



				$permalinkArr    	= explode( ':', $permalinkSegment);

				$bloggerId         	= $permalinkArr[0];

			}

			else

			{

				if( isset($segments[2]) && $segments[2] == EasyBlogSEFTranslation::_( 'statistic' ) )

				{

					$permalink   = $segments[1];

				}

				else

				{

					$permalink = $segments[$count - 1];

				}



				if( $id = EasyBlogHelper::getUserId( $permalink ) )

				{

					$user      = JFactory::getUser( $id );

				}



				if( !$user )

				{

					// For usernames with spaces, we might need to replace with dashes since SEF will rewrite it.

					$id			= EasyBlogHelper::getUserId( JString::str_ireplace( '-' , ' ' , $permalink ) );

					$user		= JFactory::getUser( $id );

				}



				if( !$id )

				{

					// For usernames with spaces, we might need to replace with dashes since SEF will rewrite it.

					$id			= EasyBlogHelper::getUserId( JString::str_ireplace( '-' , '_' , $permalink ) );

					$user		= JFactory::getUser( $id );

				}

				

				$bloggerId  = $user->id;

			}


Replace it with,



				// perform manual split on the string.

				if( isset($segments[2]) && $segments[2] == EasyBlogSEFTranslation::_( 'statistic' ) )

				{

					$permalinkSegment   = $rawSegments[1];

				}

				else

				{

					$permalinkSegment   = $rawSegments[ ( $count - 1 ) ];

				}



				$permalinkArr    	= explode( ':', $permalinkSegment);

				$bloggerId         	= $permalinkArr[0];
Mark
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:45
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Hello Anirudh,

Hm, this is really odd because SH404 seems to be generating the URL of https://travcom.org.nz/Members-Directory/blogger.html but I don't see anywhere in SH404's database about such URLs. Can I try purging all the URLs? I am really not too sure why because I am not really familiar with what SH404 is doing behind the scenes.

I have also added some customizations on the SH404 extension file in /components/com_easyblog/sef_ext/com_easyblog.php so that the URLs appear as /listings/username
Mark
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014 23:41
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P/S: My changes too doesn't seem to be taken into account as I think SH404 is somehow caching all the URLs even after purging.
Mark
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014 23:41
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As i said I disabled Sh404 for easyblog!

and yes you are authorized to purge the links.
Anirudh Kumar
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:54
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Ok everything sorted... Now all I want to do is...

example https://travcom.org.nz/members/blogger/listings/12344username
to
https://travcom.org.nz/members/listings/firstname-lastname

P.S. easyblog has nothing to do with SH404SEF... I am now using Joomla router
Anirudh Kumar
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 05:07
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Update -

I disabled the unicode alias so I still need achieve 2 things

1)https://travcom.org.nz/members/blogger/listings/username - get rid of Members(or blogger) so that it looks like https://travcom.org.nz/members/listings/xxxxxx

2)https://travcom.org.nz/members/listings/username - I dont want username in my alias as all the blogger usernames are email addresses.

Thanks.
Anirudh Kumar
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 05:22
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can anyone look into it... I have clear 404 errors for the website.

Cheers.
Anirudh Kumar
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:04
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Hello Anirudh,

I am sorry for the delays but please take a look at the blog post, http://stackideas.com/blog/limited-support-this-lunar-new-year .

If you have disabled SH404 for EasyBlog, it's not possible to have such URLs. Those urls are only achieve-able if you have a cached url system like SH404.
Mark
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:24
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Ok thanks I can live with it but how to change Usernames to Firstname+Lastname in the url as all the blogger usernames are email id.
Anirudh Kumar
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:29
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Try this, edit the file /components/com_easyblog/helpers/router.php and at line 651 locate the codes below:



return $bloggerPermalink;


Replace it with,



$bloggerPermalink  = $profile->id . '-' . $user->name;

return $bloggerPermalink;
Mark
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:47
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One step forward.

1) Its working fine but now the blogger name has become guest

2) want replace %20 with a dash

I am really sorry to push on a holiday but it took 4 months just to set easyblog.
Anirudh Kumar
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:26
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Try this code,



$bloggerPermalink  = $profile->id . '-' . str_ireplace( ' ' , '-' , $user->name );

return $bloggerPermalink;
Mark
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Thursday, 30 January 2014 23:43
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Thanks for your help. Everything went great
Anirudh Kumar
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Friday, 31 January 2014 19:49
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You are most welcome.
Mark
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Saturday, 01 February 2014 00:57
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