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I’ve created quite a few sites with Joomla but have had numerous frustrations and problems with OpenSEF and other SEF programs, which are supposed to be created to allow you to easily transform all akward URLS to short Search Engine Friendly ones.

Until I found ARTIO.

ARTIO is also the only SEF component I have found to work with Joomlaboard and Community Builder.

I am not a webmaster or programmer guru so I don’t know exactly how I managed to get it to work. But, I just use the one site which I was first successful in doing this with, and duplicate the Globals, php.ini file and the .htaccess file.

After You Successfully Upload all of the JReviews Files (and/or Joomlaboard/CB), then:
1.   Go into your website’s control panel (Cpanel) or file manager and in the /public_html/ folder (or where you have JReviews installed) then you will need to replace the .htaccess file and globals file. You will also need to upload the php.ini file to the same /public_html/ area or where you have JReviews installed.
2.   Be aware that ARTIO does not work with UserListXTD if you have that installed. You can go into the ARTIO configuration to “Skip” using it for that component.
3.   If there are any URLS, which you do not like, you can manually change them to suit your needs.

You can download the .htaccess, globals and php.ini files here (I’ve zipped them for you). à DOWNLOAD ZIP FILE http://www.honestworkfromhomesuccess.com/joomla/GlobalsPHPhtaccessZIP.zip

I've used this with my first JReviews site here: www.RealCbRatings.com so you can see how it looks and see that it does work just fine.

That might be a problem specific to Artio and not having an sef_ext.php file for it. Which are the duplicate urls you refer to?

Have you tried using the supplied file? it's somewhere else on this thread or you can also find it in My Account in the downloads for your license.

The file works, with few issues due to Joomla's Itemid problems, with both OpenSEF and SEF Advance. I need to fine tune a few things and that will happen with the next release. But take a look at the links on this site:

http://www.threadreviews.com/

He is using OpenSEF.

The patched files in the updates for your license fix a problem with the menu links. Without the patch you get the "You don't have access to this resource" message.

On the first link I clicked on the first item:

http://www.hantverksforum.com/rormokare/ingemars-ror.html

and I can see the review.