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Rooney
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10 years 1 week ago #46871 by Rooney

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Ok. Thanks for the information. Rooney

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9 years 11 months ago #47204 by ggppdk

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Hello

i am not forgetting this,

the Joomla SEF plugin seems to be producing a valid REL canonical link, that works in all cases (just i will need to really test a little more)

- so obvious solution is to disable the FLEXIcontent built-in rel canonical in Joomla 3.x
(will do in v2.2.0 final)

- (to apply a fix now) you may comment out the FLEXIcontent code in files
com_flexicontent/views/.../tmpl/view.html.php
(search for rel="canonical") and comment it out

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Rooney
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9 years 11 months ago #47211 by Rooney

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ggppdk wrote: (to apply a fix now) you may comment out the FLEXIcontent code in files
com_flexicontent/views/.../tmpl/view.html.php
(search for rel="canonical") and comment it out

I don't think that's a good idea, because the in-built Joomla solution is not working for Flexicontent. I have articles listed in different category views. The FC canonical link always contains the primary category, the Joomla is built with the current category view. That means that one article has several different canonical links which makes the situation even worse compared to having no canonical at all!

So far I have deleted

Code:

	public function onAfterRoute()
	{
		$app = JFactory::getApplication();
		$doc = JFactory::getDocument();

		if ($app->getName() != 'site' || $doc->getType() !== 'html')
		{
			return true;
		}

		$router = $app->getRouter();

		$uri     = clone JUri::getInstance();
		$domain  = $this->params->get('domain');

		if ($domain === null || $domain === '')
		{
			$domain = $uri->toString(array('scheme', 'host', 'port'));
		}

		$parsed = $router->parse($uri);
		$fakelink = 'index.php?' . http_build_query($parsed);
		$link = $domain . JRoute::_($fakelink, false);

		if ($uri !== $link)
		{
			$doc->addHeadLink(htmlspecialchars($link), 'canonical');
		}
	}

in plugins/system/sef/sef.php. Which is of course not an ideal solution, because sef.php is a core file!

Rooney

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9 years 9 months ago #48797 by Rooney

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ggppdk wrote: the Joomla SEF plugin seems to be producing a valid REL canonical link, that works in all cases (just i will need to really test a little more)

Hi,
this is still happening with latest 2.2.0 beta 1932. Still two canonical links in the head.
Rooney

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