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Since version 1.5.x,Joomla tries to automatically detect your web site root url (ie: http://www.example.com) all by itself. This information is needed in many operations, especially those dealing with making links and urls.

Unfortunately, this detection process sometimes fails, usually because of a faulty web server setup. In such cases, various errors will appear, and sh404sef, as it deals a lot with URLs and links will be one of the most affected extensions. Symptoms can be bad home page links, 404 pages creeping out, and more

To allow fixing this problem, Joomla introduced in an early version of the 1.5.x series a configuration variable, called $live_site. Because they think auto-detection will succeed most of the time, they however do not provide a way to easily set this variable. We advise every joomla site should have a variable in the configuration.php file that defines the base url of your site.

 e.g. var $live_site = 'http://www.example.com';

In some circumstances joomla does not create this variable during the installation process so you will need to manually edit your configuration.php file to ensure that sh404sef will work correctly.