Hi,

I was facing a problem with my multilangual website (English and French) for several days.
The two home menus had canonical urls which is not allowed for SEO. I read that it can be very bad for my SEO. So I tried to figured out the problem.

First, I thought the problem was in SH404SEF. They found it was not the case.

Then, I thought it was in JSiteMap Pro. John Daglemore found it was not the case.
But he found that disabling canonical URL in K2 settings was not working.

He proposed me a hack.
In the file root/components/com_k2/views/item/view.html.php at line 757 I added 'return;' to solve my problem.
private function setCanonicalUrl($url)
{
return;
$document = JFactory::getDocument();
$params = K2HelperUtilities::getParams('com_k2');
$canonicalURL = $params->get('canonicalURL', 'relative');
if ($canonicalURL == 'absolute') {
$url = substr(str_replace(JUri::root(true), '', JUri::root(false)), 0, -1).$url;
}
$document->addHeadLink($url, 'canonical', 'rel');
}

Now it works. The SEO error has disappeared.
I know that it is not the right solution. Maybe there is a bug.
Please would you investigate the problem?

Thanks for your help
Amar Guillen

Hi Fotis,

thank you very much for the update. It works perfectly. It is a great news.
I got a lot pages disappeared because the SEO problem generated by the bug.

Thanks for all
And because it is never too late, I wish you a happy new year.

Amar Guillen