Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[yellow1912]

Bless you for your quick response. Very helpful..

Here's what I put for the LINK
/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1/

And this for the ALIAS
/Cards/

AND the URL translates to:
http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/index.php?/cards-c-1

Shouldn't it drop the index.php?/

No, you are supposed to put the already SEOized link there, please view the tutorial here http://public.rubikintegration.com/t.../ssu_alias.htm

[ScottMorgan]

OK.. That clears a lot up... but I've tried clearing all the cache
but it still comes up the way it did the first time.

LINK (Card-Games-c-1)
ALIAS (Card-Games)

The status bar in the browser shows I'm going to
www.MYDOMAIN.com/card-games/

But translates in the URL as:
http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/index.php?/card-games-c-1
(AND IS DISPLAYING THE HOME PAGE)

Configure >> Simple SEO URL

Title Value Action
Name delimiter -
File extension
ID delimiter -
Set max category level 2
Exclude list advanced_search_result,redirect,popup_image_additional
Set Link Alias Status true
Set minimum word length 0
Set maximum name length 0
Set SSU Status true
Set SSU Multi Language Status false
Set Query Key's Exclude List zenid,gclid,number_of_uploads,number_of_downloads,action

[ScottMorgan]

Does this system revert to lower case letters even though I use upper case letters in the LINK and ALIAS?

[yellow1912]

It's weird to have index.php in the first place, please delete all link aliases, clear all caches, then create new aliases

[yellow1912]

Does this system revert to lower case letters even though I use upper case letters in the LINK and ALIAS?

yes, it changes everything to lowercase.

[ScottMorgan]

Got it! The problem was in my changes in the .htaccess.

Once that was corrected, it worked fine.

Thank you... Thank you... Thank you... for all your help.

I noticed in the SEO config it recommends that you not use
an extention.. IE. .html.

Do you agree with this?

[yellow1912]

Got it! The problem was in my changes in the .htaccess.

Once that was corrected, it worked fine.

Thank you... Thank you... Thank you... for all your help.

I noticed in the SEO config it recommends that you not use
an extention.. IE. .html.

Do you agree with this?

Yup, to me it makes no sense, for your customers it's 5 extra letters (.htnl), and it will not help anything with SEO

[goldenhues]

My host says mod rewrite is enabled and something must be wrong with the .htaccess , this is the code and it's in the hotdocs folder , any clues ? thanks
#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# Make sure to change "test_site" to the subfolder you install ZC. If you use root folder, change to: RewriteBase /
RewriteBase /

# Deny access from .htaccess
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]
#### EOF SSU

<IfModule mod_security.c>
# Turn off mod_security filtering.
SecFilterEngine Off

# The below probably isn't needed, but better safe than sorry.
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

[ScottMorgan]

Thanks for all your help yellow..! Running like a top now.

Happy Holidays...

[yellow1912]

Very weird indeed, is this file located at the root of your store?

If you do feel comfortable with it, create a temporary ftp account and pm so I can look into it for you. It's okie if you dont feel comfortable about that, I do understand. There were people who acted like Im about to hack to their stores when I offered to help, and it did hurt my feeling.

My host says mod rewrite is enabled and something must be wrong with the .htaccess , this is the code and it's in the hotdocs folder , any clues ? thanks
#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# Make sure to change "test_site" to the subfolder you install ZC. If you use root folder, change to: RewriteBase /
RewriteBase /

# Deny access from .htaccess
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]
#### EOF SSU

<IfModule mod_security.c>
# Turn off mod_security filtering.
SecFilterEngine Off

# The below probably isn't needed, but better safe than sorry.
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>