SEF Advance is for made for Apache web server. It is possible to make it work on IIS but special configurations are needed. We can not support that.

I get "The file /path/components/com_sef/sef_func.php cannot be decoded by this version of the ionCube Loader. If you are the administrator of this site then please install the latest version of the ionCube Loader.".

SEF Advance is very easy to install (just upload it as any other component). However if you need help just contact us. Make sure your server fulfils all the requirements though. We can not assist you to setup mod_rewrite or do server configurations; you should have the built-in SEF working before the purchase. htaccess file is distributed inside the zip package you received. If you can't see it maybe you are on Mac or Linux which automatically hides all files that begin with a dot.

Apache mod_rewrite commands have certain impact on site load. However, SEF Advance only has a single Apache instruction to point the server to the right file. All logic is purely implemented in PHP. Therefore SEF Advance does not have a significant impact on the server load or speed. The file itself is ionCube encoded but that doesn't slow it down, in fact in some cases it even improves the performance.

The source code is protected with ionCube encoding technology. If your server doesn't already support ionCube encoded files, in most cases it's enough to just upload a free loader to your site and SEF Advance will work.

Yes. This can be your local site (localhost) or a test site on internet, however on obvious test domain or subdomain.

SEF Advance will rewrite core content and all core component URLs to "nice", human friendly, URLs. If the component has SEF Advance extension, it will also get advanced URLs. Otherwise, if component is SEF enabled, its URLs will be same as with standart built-in SEF.

First, export your settings under the backup option in SEF Advance configuration. Then uninstall the old version and install the new one through Joomla!/Mambo component installer. Finally, go the backup again and import your settings back. Or you can reinstall but previously export your settings in the SEF Advance backend so you can restore them after the upgrade.

SEF Advance is compatible with Joomla! 1.0 series and Mambo 4.5 series (4.5.0-4.5.4). It will also be made compatible with the upcoming Joomla! 1.5 (once stable). While it has been confirmed to work with Mambo 4.6, we can not guarantee all functionality or give support for this version of Mambo as we are committed to Joomla! development. If you can't find the solution to your problem here please search the forum where you can also ask for help.

Yes, but you will have to cease using SEF Advance on the old domain. Contact me and I will re-license your file.

Yes, but this is subject to additional charges for custom programming. In the first hand you should contact the component's author with request for SEF Advance extension. If he is not willing to do it you can contact me for a quote where cost depends on the component's complexity.

Internet Information Services. Microsoft Web server software that uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol to deliver World Wide Web documents. IIS includes various functions like security, CGI, HTTP, FTP servers, Mail server etc

Unlike other SEF components, SEF Advance doesn't store URLs in database to later look them up for conversion. Instead, SEF Advance does all the URL conversions on-the-fly. This method has proven to be more effective in terms of performance because it avoids dealing with database searches on very large, non-indexed, duplicate-entries tables. Additionally, SEF Advance features disk cache option for further decreasing the load on your database.

Yes you can, to integrate Tomcat with IIS see http://www.unlimitedftp.ca/support/resources/tomcat-iis.htm for more details. Those instructions are only valid for Tomcat version 4.0.X or older. If you are running a different servlet container then Tomcat, refer to user guide or help for your own servlet container.

The ipMonitor Multi-Status View utility will work correctly with any version of IIS that supports version 1.1 of the .NET Framework, such as IIS v4, v5, v5.1 and v6.