I installed and set it up with no problems, then I attempted to configure it noted with the installation and could not get it to work for the life of me. I knew the problems revolved around my .htaccess and installing Joomla into a sub-directory of my Root. So many other reviews stated it worked great so I hunkered down and configured, tweated and messed with the instructions until I figured out the problem. I simply was not reading the instructions well enough... ^_^

I was messing up the 3rd Party SEF Section of my .htaccess, I was leaving out the subdirectory (main) info on my:
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(main/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##

Once I plugged that puppy in, it all began working flawlessly, cheers!

Installed this and had realistic SEF urls with minimal effort.

I love every single bit of this extension. Guys, great stuff, thank you very much indeed!
Easy installation, very smooth, all works perfectly, customized links to any page. Exactly what I was looking for.

El'

I am always willing to pay for a product or service that is going to provide value to me.

I am sad to say that this is not the case with ArtioSEF.

I paid for the product, installed it, had problems placed my issues on their forum and they deleted all but one of my posts. Obviously they do not want any negative comments about their just aweful product.

On the one post they left on their forum the finally replied after a day and a half and said it wasn't the products issue, I must have the wrong permissions set.

The scary thing about this is I support people for a reason and while I have more than my fair share of PEBKAC's, I do read manuals. What is more I had a previous version installed that was working although it more then halved my website performance with the number of queries the product creates on each page access. I uninstalled the previous version before installing the new one as per the very limited documentation on the product. Nothing annoys me more then a vendor trying to blame everything else but their own products for causing issues.

Documentation is another issue, I don't mind scrambling my way around a product and through forums for free things but when I have paid for an item I expect it to have at least a reasonable explanation of the products features.

I have asked the developers for a refund but don't hold any hopes for a resolution to this situation.

All I can say is I am going to OpenSEF and recommend other do the same.

Owner's reply:
Hello,



we cannot agree with this comment. We do not delete any post in our forums, unless they are rude or completely wrong.



We always try to provide the users the best support and there is very detailed documentation available both online and with the product.

I'm very sorry I didn't try this before I paid $30 for the version without an ad. What a waste of time. The concept is great and at first glance it seems to work. However it creates multiple versions of the same page, creating an absolute mess, eg.

babies/childcare-2.php - index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=47&id=25&task=view
babies/childcare-4.php - index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=52&id=25&task=view
babies/childcare-5.php - index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=48&id=25&task=view
babies/childcare-6.php - index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=50&id=25&task=view
babies/childcare-7.php - index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=60&id=25&task=view
babies/childcare.php - index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=32&id=25&task=view

The documentation gives no explanation as to how this component actually works so at first I had no idea how this would affect indexed pages. I created a sitemap using an external tool and it found ALL of the multiple URLs for the same page. What a mess !! The only way to get rid of this is to set Exclude source info (Itemid) to Yes, but that messes up a lot of functionality in your site, so not very useful.

There is no support at all on their forum and they only provide paid support. Even if you paid them $30 for this component.

A complete waste of time and money.

Owner's reply:
Hi,



the new version provides toools that greatly help to reduce number of such links, although experienced users are able to prevent them also with the older version.



As regards, the support we try to help on our forums and we require paying for support only in case when the issues are related to customers site configuration, conflicts with 3rd party extensions, etc.

I think that Artio Joomsef is good component and has great potential. The support for Joomfish! is great, but it has a huge issue with generating duplicate urls for the same content, for example:
.../category/content-item.htm
.../category/content-item-2.htm
.../category/content-item-3.htm

This is a big issue from the standpoint of SEO because it basically creates duplicate content all over your site. Since this is the component that should improve !Joomla SE optimization I think this is a major bug. There is an option to exclude itemid's in the SEF query, but this messes upa your !Joomla functionality, and you loose control over modules and menus.

Other than that, I find this component great, but would not recommend it to anyone at this moment because of the duplicate content problem.

Kind regards,
Kenjueke

Seems to be a good product, however you need to search the Joomla forum to learn how to remove the Artio advert that will appear in the footer of your website. Otherwise, you have to purchase the non-free version that does not come with the advert. I personally didn't appreciate them "sneaking" that in there and have decided to use a different product - possibly Open SEF.

This is a very good component which does the job and even more than that.

In order make it really pefect Artio should invest more in documentation (especially concerning instelation).

Almost finished building a new site with Joomla but found these two problems before I went live.

1. http://yoursite.com does not resolve the same as http://www.yoursite.com. Could not find anything on their site to correct this.

2.Original joomla url index.php?xxxx returns a message "You are authorized to view this page". Apparently new bug in latest build. Many messages on their forum, but no answers. Artio pages yield same result.

This component beats OpenSEF in my opinion. Mainly for the fact that it supports JoomFish.

The development is very rapid since it is an ad-supported component.

Ohh, and writing extensions (sef_ext) for it is so much simpler than for OpenSEF

There are some issues - performance is the main one. I think it's overkill to always record hits for each of the urls (useful in the first instance when debugging a site, then a waste of resources).

I was finding big problems with searches - looked like it was in some kind of loop when going against com_search. But - there's no option in the config to disable it. So, I patched

components/com_sef/joomsef.php - line 492 or thereabouts, to read:
case (in_array($option, $sefConfig->skip) || $option=="com_search")

This will then explicitly skip com_search...

A bit of a quick n' dirty hack - but maybe a better one will find its way into the component?

Andrew

I am using it on a couple of small sites (nothing large like where most of the complaints are coming from)and it works like a charm.

joomla 1.0.12
joomsef 1.4

I used this on a Joomfish enabled site with three languages. It does a beautiful job of cleaning up those *nasty* joomla links and creating beautifully formed ones. I'm not sure about other people with problems with tons of links, but I haven't had any problems at all. Everyone worked like a charm.

I love all the settings related to Joomfish. Very nicely done.

It took maybe a 1/2 hour of setup time (probably the most time trying to figure out the .htaccess file because I just blazed through without carefully reading the directions in hopes of a 5 minute setup).

I found that this Joomsef component, by itself, generates 25 queries per page on my personal website.
In comparison the OpenSef component generates 3 queries.
That's a huge difference, and Joomsef doesn't have nearly as many options as the amazing openSef does.
Conclusion: JoomSEF is required if you're using JoomFish but otherwise, you might be best served to steer clear.

Congratulation for this masterpiece. I tried every SEF component, even the commercial ones and this is the only which let you work Joomfish and SEF in 5 minutes. All other things also work perfectly.

5+