Excellent!

I thought this was going to be a hard install, but ended up being a breeeeeeeze.

This is a must have, and will now be an instant install on any of my new Joomla! websites.

Just read the installation instructions carefully and you will be fine.

A+

Dallas

I gotta tell you - this product absolutely saved me. I had been struggling with native SEF and was getting nowhere. Decided to try this product and had my site setup exactly how I wanted it in about 15 minutes. Thanks for an excellent easy to use product. Your a lifesaver.

sh404sef is always one of the first extensions I install on a joomla site. Although, I was sad to see it go commercial, I definitely understand because a lot of time goes into making sh404sef I'm sure. It's definitely worth the small amount they're charging. And in response to an earlier comment, I'm using this extension on an IIS server and it works great! If you use Helicon's Isapi_Rewrite (free or commercial version) you can even use the .htaccess without index.php. When using isapi_rewrite you must add


if ( isset( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL' ] ) )
{
$_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL' ];
}

to the beginning of your index.php file for it to work. This detail had me tripped up for a while. I would have given an excellent rating but sometimes I do have strange things happen, for instance, out of the blue on occasion my homepage will return a 404 error. Purging the 404 logs always fixes it and it may be something I have setup wrong???

I've been using this component for years and always been very happy with it. Features are excellent and plugin capability is fantastic but I was a little disappointed to find out you now have to register to download effectively making it a commercial product. This must be a fairly recent change and I suppose I can understand the need to make some money to pay for the servers but I much prefer to donate to projects I like. Perhaps an old copy could still have been left on the forge but I see all files have been removed there too.

Anyway, besides that, as I've already said an excellent component and not a bad price for the yearly subscription so I would say it's still worth paying for. Combined with the VirtueMart plugin there's nothing better out there that I have found.

I agree, this is very usefull extension, on some servers and some condition. On free hosting servers there is no way to force this extension to work. And suport for other extension is uncomplete. Forums are overloaded with asking for help for this extension. I made 12 sites, and they working more than exelent, afret instalig of sh400SEF, they been crushed, at least they did not worked well. But, who I´m I to judge, I´m just simple and small joomla user!

Ok, I'm rating sh404SEF as excellent event if I found and fixed bugs, because for such a good work, a few bugs are acceptable and...give me the name of even one software wich is bug free !

And ok, it's not a component for newbies, it's not always working out-of-the-box, it needs tuning and plugins etc.

I'm using sh404SEF not only for rewritting url but olso for security. It's very usefull to track attacks and to block IP adresses.

The component is still supported and maintained, please have a look at the hosting website.
Yannick is still at work ! Thanks to you Yannick and to anything-digital !