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Setup and Configuration

SEF Advanced basically work out of the box without any configuration (other than turning it on), but there are several things you can tweak and adjust to your liking.

Preferences - Here is where you can configure things like; what to replace spaces in URLs to (- (dash) is the default and preferred option), long or short urls (short=by title, long=by name) and redirect non-www. to www.domain.com (recommended).

You also have the option to append creation date and id to make items more unique and Google news friendly and wether to redirect built-in or non-sef URLs to their corresponding Advanced URLs.

You can change the default pre-set strings for a bunch of standard content and component strings, like blogsection/category, weblinks, poll and contact and even create your own custom component strings if you don't like the one each component uses by default.

Replace special characters you may use, especially if you are writing a non-English blog, such as turn å into aa or ö into oo to make the URL universally accessible. The same screen also allow you to set your own custom 404 page.

Because of Joomlas dynamic nature, there may be some reason you may want to ignore the output of a special component, SEF Advance allows you to do just that by selecting the component to ignore. For the record, I have never had to use this option, everything has worked flawlessly out of the box.

However, sometimes you will have a component generate a URL that for one reason or another will not convert well by SEF Advance and there is a section in the admin backend that allow you to manually set the non-SEF URL into an alias (SEF url).

You can configure SEF Advance to log every 404 Not found URL and it will save the time, IP of visitor and the referring url.