Remove/change part of SEF URLs

Some hints to find what is 'root':

First is root a menu item?

(i guess it is not a subfolder in your site)

Typing :

www.mysite.com/root/

what does it load?

if you search you menu items in backend, is there a menu item with alias root?

what is the default menu item of FLEXIcontent ?
can you find it in the list ... rename the alias from 'root' to something else

www.mysite.com/root/ gives a 404 (it's definitely not a sub folder)

I don't have any menu with alias "root"

The only thing that I can think of is that the old Flexicontent required you to set a "root" Joomla 1.5 Section, which all the Flexicontent categories were children of. That said, my Section was called "Site"...

Another clue is that Acesef also puts "ROOT" into the page meta title. So it becomes:

Category - ROOT - mysite.com

I have the same problem ((((

"root" in URL comes from table #__categories. First row in this table with ID 1 has alias "root". ItemId of this page is 101.

I have tried to play with all AceSef settings and with component code (administrator/components/com_acesef/extensions/com_flexicontent.php), in function "_getCategory" on line 257 when i change condition

while ($id > 0) {
to
while ($id > 1) {

it produces good URL's without word "root" at begening, but on top level they are not functional, only in the deep levels

Joomla 2.5.6, AceSef Free 2.5.4 and actual extension for Flexicontent (1.5.9)

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I'm very said of that problem. Too many days i am trying to make nice URL's on big catalog. Native system is not perfect my urls looks like
/cat1/cat2/cat3/X-cat3/article (last category twice)

sh404sef was promising, but some categories good:
cat1/cat2/cat3/article
but some bad
cat3/article

And finaly this night...AceSEF...still "root" at begining of URL (((

DALI

Is there something relevant in the FLEXIcontent acesef plugin parameters?

Have you tried asking ACEsef author?

I hacked the database to remove "title" and "alias" fields for the root category, and to my surprise that seems to have fixed the URLs.

There is still a small problem with the meta titles showing a space where the missing title should be, but I can live with that.

dalikallay did you report this to Acesef? I may do it at some point but I find them extremely unhelpful and I have lots of other things to fix to get Flexicontent working with j2.5!

Hi guys

to ggppdk: I dont know if this problem is only from AceSef component. Extension for Flexicontent use some your code. For example in administrator/components/com_acesef/extensions/com_flexicontent.php on line 30 it reads your router...

$route_helper = JPATH_ROOT.DS.'components'.DS.'com_flexicontent'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'route.php';
require_once($route_helper);

and then it use som of your functions. I really dont know, it needs more to read and analyze code

To Phone: Thnk you for tip, i will try it on my site