Moving oscommerce to zen and possible issues

[webbydeb]

I am moving from oscommerce to zencart this weekend. I am well listed in google in terms of the amount of pages they have listed, and I get a lot of traffic from them.

I've got my zencart in /zen and my oscommerce in /store. I was going to simply change zen's name to store and rename /store to something else, but I have concerns....

Is there something I have to do to ensure no 404's when someone goes to a product page from google. The urls won't be exactly alike since I have cDynamicMetatags and Ultimate SEO Urls installed in the oscommerce cart...I know it will take some time for google to change the urls from the sitemap I ping them with on Sunday.

Any feedback will be appreciated. Also, any ideas on things I may be missing in terms of being aware of with this migration.

[yellow1912]

Ultimate SEO does have a version for Zen, Im not sure about cDynamicMetatags though

[skipwater]

I posted this today http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105805

It might help you out but you need to setup each inbound link and then redirect it to the new product link.

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[webbydeb]

Thanks for your imput!

The setting of each url with a redirect is near impossible. I've got 2755 products in my store and I'll end up in a coma if I try that!

[skipwater]

Thanks for your imput!

The setting of each url with a redirect is near impossible. I've got 2755 products in my store and I'll end up in a coma if I try that!

Yes I totally agree that is not for your quantity.

I have used this method of redirect on some old osc to zen sites.
By placing this file in the store root.

<?php
// product_info.php
// osc direct product link convert to zen-cart product link
// this assumes that the product ids did not change form osc to zen

   header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
   header('Location: http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=' . basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
?>

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[webbydeb]

Do I add this code to a certain file? index.php? Or is it a file on it's own?

[skipwater]

It is a file on its own.

osc used product_info.php file to get products

Not like zen cart index.php?main_page=product_info

[webbydeb]

It is a file on its own.

osc used product_info.php file to get products

Not like zen cart index.php?main_page=product_info

gotcha, thanks! Fingers crossed!

[Website Rob]

Any particular reason why you are running your store from a sub-directory?

If NO, then install Zen Cart at the root level then put this in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule store/.*(.*) http://yoursite.com/

That will redirect all requests to the old pages to your Home page.


Or you could create a specific Web page detailing what was done and use:

RewriteEngine  ON
RewriteRule store/.*(.*) http://yoursite.com/site-updated.htm

[webbydeb]

My store is an adult store with some images not appropriate to minors, so I have the entrance with that info and that they must be 18+ to enter. Covers my ######## and keeps some out who shouldn't be there.