Moving oscommerce to zen and possible issues
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.
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Ultimate SEO does have a version for Zen, Im not sure about cDynamicMetatags though
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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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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! :flex:
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Originally Posted by
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! :flex:
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 Code:
<?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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Do I add this code to a certain file? index.php? Or is it a file on it's own?
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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
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Originally Posted by
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
gotcha, thanks! Fingers crossed!
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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.
Code:
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:
Code:
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule store/.*(.*) http://yoursite.com/site-updated.htm
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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.
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OSCs version puts hyphens between the name, ZEN doesn't.
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Originally Posted by
webbydeb
OSCs version puts hyphens between the name, ZEN doesn't.
I believe Ultimate Seo can automatically redirect from old name to new name?
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How would it know the old name though....
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It only cares about the product/category ids in the url, not the names. So if the ids stay the same, it will know.
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That's a relief...funny, I thought I posted this response. Must have forgotton to take my meds!
:clap:
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Yup, you have to turn on force redirect or something in the admin setting. And Im not exactly sure it's in version 2.x or 3.x (either one, forgive me since I used this module only once long long ago)
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Originally Posted by
webbydeb
That's a relief...funny, I thought I posted this response. Must have forgotton to take my meds!
:clap:
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It's working by the way. URLs are exactly the same...I'm so psyched!:yes: Great mod!
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I've got this mod almost to work.
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Originally Posted by
skipwater
PHP Code:
<?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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My osc url is:
http://www.mysite.co.uk/catalog/prod...roducts_id=882
and it redirected to:
http://www.newsite.co.uk/catalog/ind...s_id=dcfdcd882
Somehow it added dcfdcd to the product_id otherwise it work.
Any idea of how to solve this?
Re: Moving oscommerce to zen and possible issues
I just spent all day finding this. This product_info.php redirects properly when migrating from OSC to zen
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41281
