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    Posted by PowerQuest posts: 58

    I found an issue which is a huge headache afterupgrading to the newest version of TikiWiki:
    It seems the permalink structure has been changed in the newer version of Tikiwiki.
    So all links to wiki posts and links to images are now invalid. 😡😑

    The old link structure which my system was using was the following:
    Wiki link https://domain.com/IT+Project+Management+Tracking or raw html link: https://domain.com/IT%2BProject%2BManagement%2BTracking

    All are obviously broken as the new link system seem to require:
    https://domain.com_/tiki-index.php?page=IT+Project+Management+Tracking

    I haven't even figured out the new link structure for images yet.. So I don't know how they should be constructed. If anyone could update me on that then I would appreciate it a lot.

    Obviously and to be frank straight out (sorry for my language); this is a big big butt hurt to say the least.
    Is there a quick fix for this or are we really forced to update all links manually (which is a lot if links).

    Thanks in advance for the help.
    Kind regards
    PowerQuest

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    Posted by John Morris posts: 758 United States

    It appears to me you may have had SEF enabled on your old version, if this is the case, simply go to your "Control Panel" then "SEF URL" and make sure that it's activated. Remember, you'll have to rename _htaccess to .htaccess before you switch to SEF URL.

    I hope what I outlined above is the issue, sounds like you got a bit of a headache going there. 😊

    Posted by PowerQuest posts: 58
    John Morris wrote:

    It appears to me you may have had SEF enabled on your old version, if this is the case, simply go to your "Control Panel" then "SEF URL" and make sure that it's activated. Remember, you'll have to rename _htaccess to .htaccess before you switch to SEF URL.

    I hope what I outlined above is the issue, sounds like you got a bit of a headache going there. 😊


    Sorry for my very slow response time.

    John Morris wrote:
    Quote: It appears to me you may have had SEF enabled on your old version.:)

    So what is a "SEF URL" ? is it like the "pretty perma links" in WordPress.

    John Morris wrote:
    Quote: Remember, you'll have to rename _htaccess to .htaccess before you switch to SEF URL.:)

    I'm a bit confused about this because there is already a .htaccess file in the directory.
    Tikiwiki Htaccess Files
    So is there a difference between those to files?

    John Morris wrote:
    Quote: I hope what I outlined above is the issue, sounds like you got a bit of a headache going there:)

    Thank you! 😀
    Well yes, It's a real pain and i admit I have procrastinated a bit to do something about it because its a real mess.


    Thanks in advance for helping me out.

    Kind regards
    PowerQuest

    Posted by PowerQuest posts: 58

    Sorry for my extremely long response time.
    For some reason I never receive notifications from this Tikiwiki forum when somebody responds. It has never worked for me, I don´t know why. But nevermind.. 😎😀

    Thank you John very much for your kind response and help.

    When looking in the SEF section of the control panel it is not enabled.
    Sef Screenshot 03

    So should we enabled it? the .htaccess file is there also since way back (2 years or so) and enabled.

    Kind regards
    Powerquest

    Posted by John Morris posts: 758 United States
    PowerQuest wrote:

    Sorry for my extremely long response time.
    For some reason I never receive notifications from this Tikiwiki forum when somebody responds. It has never worked for me, I don´t know why. But nevermind.. 😎😀

    Thank you John very much for your kind response and help.

    When looking in the SEF section of the control panel it is not enabled.


    So should we enabled it? the .htaccess file is there also since way back (2 years or so) and enabled.

    Kind regards
    Powerquest


    Yes, enable it, and change Wiki URL Scheme to Replace Spaces with Dashes. Also, do you have two .htaccess files?


    Posted by John Morris posts: 758 United States

    I believe you should be fine with the .htaccess you already have.

    Yes, the SEF URL is like the pretty links in Word Press, activating it simplifies your url's so the default url will show the page name. Do you have it activated in your control panel?


    Posted by PowerQuest posts: 58

    Hmm enabling SEF seem to make it even worse.

    The pages then generates a 404 on all links:

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    Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    I had to take it off again and disable SEF.

    Hmm.. . 😐

    This makes it even more complicated then because the links are still failing and I have no idea why it does that in the never version of TikiWiki.

    Kind regards
    Powerquest