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SH404SEF & Virtuemart V2 - not playing well together

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dave collerton:
Happy Christmas all....

I have just upgraded to V2 which I use with joomla 1.5.25 and the latest version of SH404SEF (   2.4.5.1028). My shop - http://www.sofasonlineltd.com - is working except for a cart problem (reported in this forum elsewhere) and a problem with the URL strings for virtuemart related categories and products.

Firstly, SH404SEF is working fine with other components e.g. DJ Catalog 2, K2 etc - a typical SEF URL delivered is http://www.sofasonlineltd.com/index.php/item/3-contemporary-sofas/6-alban-3-seater-sofa.html. No problem there.

However, since upgrading to V2 my shop urls are wrong - yes, I have purged and refreshed, cleaned cache etc etc. What I get with SH404SEF activated for virtuemart is http://www.sofasonlineltd.com/index.php/buy-sofas.html?view=productdetails&virtuemart_category_id=5&virtuemart_product_id=11 which is clearly a non SEF URL. I can only assume then that, for some reason, SH404SEF is unable to translate the virtuemart string to SEF form.

Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a plugin I need to load perhaps to make the two play nicely together?

Grateful for some advice.

Kind regards
Dave

jenkinhill:
SEF for VM2 works fine in Joomla 1.7 using the native Joomla functions, a third party SEF tool is not necessary. I guess that SH404SEF would need a plugin/mod to work with VM2 in J1.5

dave collerton:
Am I too assume form your answer that there isn't an SH404SEF plugin for J.15 / VirtueMart V2?

Has anyone here had success with SH404 and V2 - it seems very unlikely that I am the only person to have this problem.

Regards
Dave

Hutson:
sh404sef does not work with vm2 and why do you need it?? vm2 creates sef urls!

dave collerton:
Thanks Hutson but clearly from the example I provided, it doesn't create SEF URLS in J1.5 - I tried disabling SH404SEF to see what happened - same URL's as with it enabled. This implies that it needs an sef plugin perhaps to get it to work, unfortunately, something I am not capable of doing.

Thanks for the comment though - appreciated.

Regards
Dave

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