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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 9:46 AM:

I've installed WSN links and enabled the SEO options. When I enable the "Use category names in URL" option, there is a problem.

Some URLs are still diplaying numerical URLs. I have ensured that none of the titles have any special characters but this makes no difference.
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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 2:19 PM:

Hello,
Did you make sure your htaccess.txt and change it to .htaccess ?

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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 8:26 PM:

Hi

Yes. SEO links *are* working. The issue is that they are not working consistently.

Most are displating ;

http://www.domain.com/directory/name_of_link

But others are still still displaying;

http://www.domain.com/directory/233

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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 9:21 PM:

I have just installed 3.16 in a new directory and the same problem applies - to the same categories!

I have even tried changing the category names to simple one word names, but they are stuck as numerical rewritten URLs.

Very odd.

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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 9:58 PM:

OK. I think I may be somewhere towards solving this.

I completely deleted the category headings and typed in new ones. I had imported those links from the Link Manager Assistant and I suspect that there were some 'invisible' characters that were causing the problems.

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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 10:02 PM:

Incidentally, how much of a problem would it be to allow charactors such as '&' and commas in urls? It does limit the heading titles somewhat?

Thanks.
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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 10:13 PM:

Any category which has a characater in the name which is illegal in URLs will use the numeric rewriting.

how much of a problem would it be to allow charactors such as '&' and commas in urls?

Well they can't be allowed in URLs, that's impossible, automatically removing them while using the alphanumeric part of the name is a future possibility.

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Posted Aug 18, 2005 - 10:22 PM:

Thanks. I only ask because the LMA directory tool that I have just migrated from, *does* allow pretty much any character you like in the rewritten URL. The following is a typical example. I don't think that they used ,htaccess as extensively though.

www.domainname.com/sources/directory/category,_name_&_something.html

Don't ask me how they did this, though.
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