Firstly, I do have the standard robots.txt file and Google is downloading it.

Now, please bear with me, this is complex.

I didn't understand that the link in the main menu to Kunena should be Menu Item Alias. Because I had it as various other menu types and parents I had trouble with the site architecture and it wouldn't let me have the same alias for two Forum links (the link to Kunena Forum and the link to Kunena Index), so I gave one of them the alias: forum-link.

I now have this straightened out and working right, having deleted the wrong stuff.

However, Google still has indexed a URL with the alias forum-link. I can't find it in the backend in Menus, Content or Modules. Don't know where else to look. The URL actually exists, not a 404. I think it must still exist in the database. Is that reasonable thinking? It sits with the inability to delete templates via the backend.

OK. That's the first issue. Here comes the second:

My robots txt file has a line: Disallow: /components/ (plural)

I have URLs indexed and that actually exist, like: mysiteDOTcom/component/content/article/7-front-page/3-photography-forum-australia . This is a featured article that appears as one of two articles on the home page.

It appears in this URL as a stand alone article with the h1 Articles and under that the article title, then the article.

It runs full width of the page with no sidebars (they are selectively assigned).

The breadcrumbs says You are here: Home, but the home page modules are not there and it's obviously not the home page.

I have the SEF stuff set up except for removing the article numbers and this seems to be working for the URLs from the main menu, but here's the typical URL for a Kunena post: mysiteDOTcom/component/kunena/5-photography-discussion/16-walls-of-china-lake-mungo?Itemid=0

Note: I haven't done any redirects in cPannel so I can be sure I haven't messed up the .htaccess file.

In Kunena I have these SEO settings:

Search Engine Friendly URLs - Yes
Do Not Use Category IDs - No
Enable UTF-8 Support - No

I wonder if the troubles stem from Kunena.

Thanks.