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#9027 Missing Custom Page Title and Meta Tags in sh404sef after Restoring

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 27 August 2011 04:58 CDT

Friday, 26 August 2011 14:14 CDT

user23854
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Description of my issue:
Hi,

I backed up my site using Akeeba Backup latest version. I downloaded the backup file and restored the site in my localhost. Everything seems to be working properly except that I lost all of my custom page title and meta tags that I set up in sh404sef component.

This also happened when I backeup the site in localhost and restored the site in my remote server. The custom page title and meta tags are all missing in sh404sef.

Please explain.

Saturday, 27 August 2011 00:42 CDT

user23854
Your help will be much appreciated.

Saturday, 27 August 2011 04:58 CDT

nicholas
Hi!

It's been many years since I last used sh404SEF, but I can think of a few things:

1. Have you manually excluded any tables from your site? If you did, you may want to remove the exclusion from sh404SEF's tables.

2. Did you have to purge SEF URLs after restoration to get your site working? I assume that when you purge the URLs, all the meta information per page get purged.

3. It is possible that sh4040SEF stores the meta information per URL and if the URL changes (e.g. moving to a different domain, subdomain or subdirectory) that would mean that this meta info is lost.

Since this seems to be an issue with the way sh404SEF works and not something with Akeeba Backup (Akeeba Backup will either back up a table or skip it, depending on what you tell it to do) I would suggest contacting the helpful guys at Anything Digital with this question. They will be able to tell you what you need to do to keep the meta information when you backup and restore your site.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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