Malformed canonical URLs

[marc_horne]

I have enabled both "Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories" and "Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products" in Stores > Configuration > Catalog > Search Engine Optimization

The canonical tags are being injected into the head as expected but some of them are displaying strangely, similar to this:

https://website.com/catalog/product/view/_ignore_category/1/id/12345/s/product_name/

Does anybody know why this might be happening?

[Meetanshi]

Hello @marc_horne 

You have to generate a URL for this.

Refer https://github.com/elgentos/regenerate-catalog-urls 

This extension will help you.

Thanks.

[marc_horne]

Hi Meetanshi,

Thank you for your response. I will try it out.

I'm still learning a lot about Magento so I was hoping you could explain to me a little how this works. It seems like generating canonical URLs is a built in feature of Magento so it feels a little wrong that it would require a 3rd party extension to generate these URLs. Can you explain briefly why this is necessary?

Thank you