Hi. I have a question.

When I search for something on my site www.islamqa.no using a CSE component called gsearch, and then click on the link, it adds an extra long link then the original.

Try clicking on the first link shown here: islamqa.no/avansert-sok/gsearch?searchword=advare&areaid=

It looks like this: islamqa.no/kategorier/teologi-og-trosforstaelse/sekter-og-grupperinger/item/61-burde-han-advare-sine-venner-mot-a-lytte-til-denne-da-iyah/61-burde-han-advare-sine-venner-mot-a-lytte-til-denne-da-iyah

If go to the same article from the categories it looks like this: islamqa.no/kategorier/teologi-og-trosforstaelse/sekter-og-grupperinger/item/61-burde-han-advare-sine-venner-mot-a-lytte-til-denne-da-iyah

I asked the developer of gsearch about the case and he said:

It's K2 issue.

I see that K2 uses wrong canonical link for page islamqa.no/kategorier/teologi-og-trosforstaelse/sekter-og-grupperinger/item/61-burde-han-advare-sine-venner-mot-a-lytte-til-denne-da-iyah:

<link href="islamqa.no/kategorier/teologi-og-trosforstaelse/sekter-og-grupperinger/item/61-burde-han-advare-sine-venner-mot-a-lytte-til-denne-da-iyah/61-burde-han-advare-sine-venner-mot-a-lytte-til-denne-da-iyah" rel="canonical" />

Is it possible to fix this?

You should disable Joomla! 's default canonical links because they are wrong.
They are meant for com_content and they fail to work properly in K2.

www.robertwent.com/blog/joomla/87-how-to-remove-joomla-s-canonical-tag-without-hacking-the-core

Thank you. I tried opening the template index.php file, but did not find the word ''canonical'', can you please help me step by step?

You need to place this snippet in your index.php file, preferably in the top.

That just messed up the site.

What was the result? A white page?
Make sure that $doc is not declared elsewhere.

The result was some text at the top of the site and fonts being meesed up.

Is it possible for you to have a look at the issue if I send you login details on PM?

@Fahad

You cannot send PM. Try to revert your changes. Then ensure that you are using the latest version of both K2 ( 2.6.8 ) and Joomla! (3.3.3).

Hi. I have updated the k2 and joomla to the latest versions you mentioned and tried the same thing again. I am getting the same results.

This is how the index.php file looks after the changes:

$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
foreach ( $doc->_links as $k => $array ) {
if ( $array == 'canonical' ) {
unset($doc->_links[$k]);
}
}
<?php

/**
*
* Main file
*
* @version 1.0.0
* @package Gavern Framework
* @copyright Copyright (C) 2010 - 2011 GavickPro. All rights reserved.
*
*/

// No direct access.
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
if(!defined('DS')){
define('DS',DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
}
// Add JavaScript Frameworks
JHtml::_('bootstrap.framework');

// enable showing errors in PHP
//ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
//ini_set('display_errors','On');

// include framework classes and files
require_once('lib/framework/gk.const.php');
require_once('lib/framework/gk.parser.php');
require_once('lib/gk.framework.php');
// run the framework
$tpl = new GKTemplate($this, $GK_TEMPLATE_MODULE_STYLES);

/* End of the file - index.php */

This is the text on the top of my site:

$doc = JFactory::getDocument(); foreach ( $doc->_links as $k => $array ) { if ( $array == 'canonical' ) { unset($doc->_links[$k]); } }

The problem is still here. I am now changing back to the original index.php file untill I hear from you again on how to solve it. Thanx

As you saw in my last post I posted the exact text how it is in the file after I add the fix. Can you please confirm whether I have done it correctly or not? If it is wrong, please send me more spesific how to make the changes as I am not much experienced in this field at all. Thank you very much for the help :)

Since your template is using the Gavern framework you might have to paste that snippet in another file.

You should ask the template developer about this.