Hi all,

My Google Webmaster Tools is showing that my website has over 4000 error 404 pages.
when they come up in the browser they are seen as per the image since I installed RedDJ.

I have uninstalled RedDJ but the Error 404 now says "Component not found".

How can I get back the normal Error 404? Le immagini di questo Forum sono invisibili ai visitatori. Prego accedi o registrati per visualizzarli.

Have you unistalled plugin too?
You can just disable or remove it at all (System - ReDJ).

But I don't understand your problem. ReDJ shoud help you to drop error 404, not to create it. So, maybe you don't configure it correcty. If you want I can help you with setup. Let me know.

Regards,
Luigi

Hi,

This is my problem, Google Webmaster Tools is showing that there are over 4400 pages that return an Error 404, this is a lot.

I have looked at some of the URL strings and many are the result of previous versions of Joomla, and indeed, some previously installed components that have created corrupt URLs. URLs that should not even exist. Unfortunatly these URLs have been cached by Google, perhaps other search engines as well.

I have tried all the other Joomla Redirect Extensions where one can enter the URL to be redirected, and then the URL to redirect to. None of them work and , unfortunately RedDJ did not work either.
I must be doing somethig wrong.

This is my Joomla setup:
Joomla 1.5.10
Joomla 1.5 SEO Patch
Joomla core SEFs enabled in admin and with a .htaccess file server side.
Apache mod_rewrite - enabled in Joomla admin
Add URL suffix - enabled in Joomla admin

All error 404 pages show as per the image I uploaded to this thread.
URLs DELETED

With over 4400 Error 404s, it would be imposible to redirect all of them one by one, so I need to be able to do some in groups where the corrupt URLs have similar strings.

Any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance

Paul

Ok,
now problem is clear and this is exactly what ReDJ was made for.

First, reinstall ReDJ 1.1 component and plugin, and activate plugin. Now you are ready to redirect all Google cached pages one by one.

For the first one, set item as follow:
From URL: ^/about-inter-web-profiling.html
To URL: http://{siteurl}/inter-web-profiling/about-inter-web-profiling.html

You need initial "^" otherwise you will enter in a loop.

For the second one (and all like this) you can set "From URL" in a way tha matches all the URL you want to redirect on the same destination, example:
From URL: view=article&catid=1%3Aflooring-and-construction-industry-news&id=102%3Aprima-direct-exported-to-the-world-cup
To URL: http://{siteurl}/news/flooring-and-building-news.html

All you need to do is to identify groups of URL that need to go on the same destination, and tha have a common unique pattern to put in "From URL".

Let me know if you have problems,
Luigi

Hi Luigi,

Thank you very much for speedy help.

I tried exactly as you said but does not work! See image.

Any ideas?

Paul

Could you please send me a dump of redj table?

Hi Luigi,

Thank you for the very fast help, I tried as you suggested but still does not work.
See the image.

Regards,
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Hi Luigi,

These are the tables:
jos_redirection
jos_redj
jos_redj_pages

jos_redirection has a lot of URLs, is this the one you would like the dump file of?

Paul

I need jos_redj. Have you enabled the plugin?

Luigi

Hi Luigi,

Plugin is activated.

Dump file attached.

Regards,
Paul