Categrory URL Rewrite Not Working After Upgrading To Magento 2.3.1 from Magento 2.3.0

Question

After upgrading to Magento 2.3.1 from 2.3.0, Category URL Rewrite don't seem to be working.

After the update, now when I am creating a new product, the URL that's being generated is something like this: http://example.com/catalog/product/view/id/3708/s/test-product-1/. The correct format should have been http://example.com/mobile-spare-parts/test-product-1/.

My settings are as follows:

• Configuration >> General >> Web >> Search Engine Optimization >> Use Web Server Rewrites: Yes
• Configuration >> Catalog >> Search Engine Optimization >> Use Categories Path for Product URLs: Yes
• Configuration >> Catalog >> Search Engine Optimization >> Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories: No
• Configuration >> Catalog >> Search Engine Optimization >> Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products: Yes

What seems to be working though is, after creating a product, if I go and change the category to some other category, & save the product again, the URL re-write seems to be happening.

Again if I revert back to the original category, even now the URL re-write seems to be working with Clean URL being generated.

Answer 1

Finally after trying a good amount of 'this & that' for the past 3 days, I seem to have found my solution.

There can be numerous reasons for this issue to occurs; but in my case the issue was occurring due to one single reason, and that's mainly the 'Single Store Mode' being turned 'On'. For in-depth solution please visit the following link: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/5929#issuecomment-238170690.

Other handy solutions I would recommend:

>> Solution using Extension:

• https://github.com/olegkoval/magento2-regenerate_url_rewrites
• https://github.com/olegkoval/magento2-regenerate_url_rewrites
• https://github.com/elgentos/regenerate-catalog-urls
• https://github.com/experius/Magento2-Module-Experius-ReindexCatalogUrlRewrites
• https://marketplace.magento.com/thlassche-regeneraterewrites.html [Don't Seem to support CE 2.3.x though]
• https://marketplace.magento.com/webpanda-catalog-url-rewrites.html
• https://firebearstudio.com/blog/url-rewrite-regeneration-extension-for-magento-2.html

If you are experiencing this issue after Migration from CE 1x to CE 2x, then try this: https://www.ubertheme.com/magento-tutorials/fixing-url-rewrite-after-migrating-magento-2/