tons of 404 errors.

Hi to all.


I have a site using penguinmail template. Before that I used corporate2 template. With both of the templates I am facing the problem of tons of 404 pages.

I the Google webmaster tools I have about 5800 error pages.
I have noticed that Google seems to be picking up weird variations of pages that don't exist. For example, let's say we have two sections, "About Us" and "Contact Us" with easily defined links /about-us and /contact-us. Google is showing variations of these links like "/index.php/about-us/contact-us". At no point are these two pages linked together aside from both being on the main menu. It also does it in larger variations with deeper links that aren't on the main menu.


I have made all the needed by renaming .htaccess , Enabled mod_rewrite etc.
I had made some research about my problem I found something that may give me some results and end the problem.

I saw that in the source code of my page there is a base url that looks like

<base href="http://www.mydomain.com" />

If i go to contact page it looks like <base href="http://www.mydomain.com/contact" />

So i am thinking that if i move from contact page to another page it might give the error <base href="http://www.mydomain.com/contact/otherpage" /> etc.

I managed to add in the layouts/blocks/head.php the <base href="http://www.mydomain.com" />
by myself. So i think that if i manage to remove the templates base url it might loose my problem.

Where can i remove the templates base url tag?

ANYONE?

Anyone to help me remove that "base href" tag?

It appears even if i change template but I cannot find it in any page!! Does anyone has an idea where can I found it. ???

Hi

Unfortunately I do not know what can be the problem, that's why I've left this question for my coleques. Please try ask this question on Joomla forum, because this part of the header os created by Joomla itself using the params You have given in global settings.