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Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages? topic search negative)? yes
Have I searched the forum before posting? yes. warm but no cigar
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? As much as my untrained mind can grasp
Joomla! version: (1.5.23)
PHP version: (5.3.6)
MySQL version: (5.1.56)
Host: (Rochen)
Admin Tools version: (2.1.2)


Description of my issue: My sh404sef program stopped working and I had to turn it off. I think it happened when I upgraded to 2.1.2, but I am not quite sure.

Sh404sef was throwing up publicly visible errors on the home page so I had to shut it down. The errors, two of them, repeated themselves down the page. The error shown in public refers to lines 3028 and 3029 in administrator/components/com_sh404sef/sh404sef.class.php. The error says the two lines are deprecated. I attach a screen shot of the offending lines. Those public errors appear with "simple" error reporting in Global Configuration.

And yet that doesn't explain the 400 errors when sh404sef is activated if I click on any link on the home page. Using both Firebug and Google Chrome with the "Net" setting I examined the home page and everything looks clean, so I don't see where I would get an address for an exception to add to .htaccess maker.

So I reinstalled sh404sef but that did not help. It is not the latest version, by the way, but these are hard times.

Now here is the odd part. I have a test site for trying new ideas,working out software conflicts, etc. Admin Tools 2.1.1 and sh404sef cohabit that site and it works perfectly. (I want to mention that the test site has its own .htaccess file created by .htaccess maker and it is identical to the one on the main site [as it should be since the Admin Tools software matches.)

Any suggestions? I have no feel for this at all.

Much thanks, once again

Lowtech

Hi Nicholas,

I decided to bypass the problem by downloading the current version of sh404sef (my version was 2009 Beta) in hopes that it would be a cleaner safer design. That was after I quoted you to Rochen on a help ticket and they told me not to mess with Error settings unless I knew what I was doing. Of course I don't know what I am doing : )

So I installed it on my test site with rewrite mod turned off as they recommended in the setup instructions and now the test site is frozen. But I expect I will get it all sorted out.

Thanks for all your kind help!

Best,

Lowtech

Thanks much, Nicholas!


I will get it sorted out one way or another.

Best,

Lowtech

Well Nicholas,

All is fine now. I installed the new version of Sh404seo with mod rewrite enabled and it all worked perfectly, which is just as well because my traffic had dropped drastically over the past four days.

Thanks again,

Lowtech