Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[E-Captivate]

Conor - I asked you twice, in two separate emails, whether the module was compatible with the page_not_found feature, and you did not answer the first time and you professed not to understand the second question.

It was obvious from your replies that you were very busy and, seeing as you are not getting paid for this module, I respect that. Instead of bothering you again, I took my issue to the forum to see if anyone else had experienced my same issues and, if so, anyone knew of an explanation or solution.

It was not intended as rude, but if it was taken that way, I apologize. I am only seeking a sound solution for my customer.

So is this module compatible with the page_not_found feature? If not, it would give me some clarity on my issues. Thanks.

[conor]

Hi,

It was not intended as rude, but if it was taken that way, I apologize. I am only seeking a sound solution for my customer.

Fair enough. I'd been expecting you to e-mail me back to explain more. I rarely take as long to reply as 4 working days. I'd forgotten about your e-mail as it had arrived on a Saturday and I tend to just "flag" e-mails at weekends for the free distributions. Every so often I check to make sure that I haven't missed replying to any "flagged" e-mails. As I was so busy I hadn't carried out that task yet that week or I would have responded sooner. I did respond straight away to your second mail but I can understand that you wanted a quicker response so you can get your client sorted.

So is this module compatible with the page_not_found feature? If not, it would give me some clarity on my issues. Thanks.

I honestly didn't know what you meant by that, I didn't know if you were talking about some Apache 404/error settings or something but I've looked at my own Zen Cart installation and see that there is a "page_not_found" script and a page in the modules/pages folder.

I've never used that before but looking into the problem I can see that Zen Cart automatically loads the index page in init_includes/init_sanitize.php if the main_page variable is not set.

I think it would indeed make more sense for that to go to the page_not_found page so in init_ceon_uri_mapping you should add in a block to set the main_page variable if it isn't set. You can change the following lines (349-350):

        }
    } else if (isset($_GET['main_page']) && isset($_SESSION['ceon_uri_mapping_redirected'])) { 

to

        } else {
            if (MISSING_PAGE_CHECK == 'On' || MISSING_PAGE_CHECK == 'true') {
                $_GET['main_page'] = 'index';
            } elseif (MISSING_PAGE_CHECK == 'Page Not Found') {
                header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
                $_GET['main_page'] = 'page_not_found';
            }
        }
    } else if (isset($_GET['main_page']) && isset($_SESSION['ceon_uri_mapping_redirected'])) { 

That code doesn't redirect the user but simply brings up the page not found page.. which is the same behaviour Zen Cart uses as standard. Should it instead redirect to the page not found page?

Please let me know what you all think about that and I'll make the code part of 3.2.1 because now that I see what is happening, I think some code should be present, either to display the 404 page or redirect to it.

I'm not sure about the who's online issues.. I'm sure it's something to do with the rewrite rule. I'd need admin access to someone's site to see what's going on as I can't replicate the problem here, it's working fine for me.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[E-Captivate]

Thanks, Conor, that did the trick!

And thank you for the assistance in solving the Apache error issue as well. For anyone else experiencing these errors, here was the solution:

I had enabled the favicon.ico code in the header_html.php file. By default, the "link href" lines for the favicon come before the "base href" line. This normally is not an issue, but once an SEO/mapping module was installed, it became problematic. The system was looking for /category/favicon.ico and /category/subcategory/favicon.ico and thus triggering Apache "file not found" errors. By moving the "base href" line to precede the favicon lines, the problem vanished.

[pseudonym]

Dear CEON,

I have a big problem.

I add products/categories to my web site using direct DB injection.

There are currently over 19.000 products and over 4.000 categories.

CEON SEO URLs does not automatically attach rewrites to them, so basically i'd have to go over tens of thousands of entries right now in order to give each one SEO URLs.

I think this is a very crazy thing to do.

Any help?

Thank you very much.

[conor]

Hi,

CEON SEO URLs does not automatically attach rewrites to them, so basically i'd have to go over tens of thousands of entries right now in order to give each one SEO URLs.

I think this is a very crazy thing to do.

Yes, that would take a long time!

The current version of the module is aimed at new stores and small stores, not massive existing stores like yours.

It's probably not something you should use on your site at this time.

Sorry I can't give you better news than that!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[pseudonym]

How can I UNINSTALL CEO SEO URLs?

[conor]

Why are you shouting? It's a bit annoying!

Go through the list of files in the Installation documentation, remove all the files from the "new files" list.

Copy fresh copies from a Zen Cart distribution over the modified core files, one by one, using the list of modified files in the installation documentation.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[HPG09]

How can I UNINSTALL CEO SEO URLs?

Why not just restore the backup you took before installation?