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Written by Terry Pollard.

AJUG Online - Tuesday 13th February

This month the online meeting will be covering the new Joomla Australia website and soliciting your involvement in the Reconnect with Joomla event to be held in Brisbane on the 15 - 17th March 2024. If you have got a question or item of interest you would like to include during the meeting then drop us an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will add it to the schedule.

This is the last online meeting to be advertised via the Meet Up platform as we are moving AJUG communications back in-house using Joomla tools therefore if you would like to receive reminders and links for the meeting be sure to subscribe to the Monthly Meeting mailing list form that should appear on this page.

Roberts Issue.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's meeting, and after a successful Joomla 5 upgrade, I had hoped I wouldn't have any questions for a change!
 
However, when I published a multi-page blog post last week, A Dad and Son Road Trip (https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip), I noticed a problem with the SEF URLs:
 
I've split the 10 days of the road trip with each day on a separate page, and on the first page, there's a "table of contents". In HTML, it looks like this:
<ul>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/sydney-to-bendigo">Day 1: Sydney to Bendigo</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/horsham-and-arapilies">Day 2: Horsham and Arapilies</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/horsham-to-adelaide">Day 3: Horsham to Adelaide</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/adelaide-to-streaky-bay">Day 4:&nbsp;Adelaide to Streaky Bay</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/the-nullarbor-plain">Day 5: The Nullarbor Plain</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/great-australian-bight-to-wa">Day 6: Great Australian Bight to WA</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/balladonia-to-esperance">Day 7: Balladonia to Esperance</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/esperance-to-albany">Day 8: Esperance to Albany</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/south-coast-highway-to-manjimup">Day 9: South Coast Highway to Manjimup</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/end-of-the-road-trip">Day 10: End of the Road Trip</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip/reflections">Reflections</a></li>
</ul>
The "sydney-to-bendigo" and "horsham-and-arapiles" parts of the URL correspond to the Page Break Title, e.g., <hr class="system-pagebreak" title="sydney to bendigo" />
 
But if I click the link, I get a 404 Page Not Found error.
 
Instead, I found by clicking the page navigation bar that I need to format the URL for Sydney to Bendigo as: /blog/a-dad-and-son-road-trip?start=1 (start=2 etc).
 
I've published multi-page articles and tables of contents on Tall And True since its launch in 2017, so I immediately thought this was a Joomla 5 upgrade problem. However, when I rolled back to Joomla 4.3.x on my staging server, I found the same problem with the existing multi-page articles, like Seven Nights in Moscow and St. Petersburg (https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/nonfiction/travel/seven-nights-moscow-stpetersburg ).
 
I think the issue with the multi-page SEFs occurred when I upgraded to Joomla 4 in 2022 and stopped using the sh404SEF extension. The Redirect Plugin "masked" the 404 errors, and looking at the Expired URLs from multi-page articles in the Redirect Links component supports my suspicion.
 
So, my long-winded question is: Can anyone recommend a component that will give me SEF URLs for multi-page articles?