Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[catach]

Hi
I have also stopped getting orders logged to my admin.
I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a with no upgrade recently
I have been using Paypal IPN with no problems
I did recently install sitemapxml on 4/9/10 and ceon uri mapping on 4/20/10 and first order that didn't log (but payment received) was 4/21/10
I don't get a lot of orders yet and last order that logged was in March 2010
I ran ipncheck.php but all it shows is my main page
Thought maybe I should switch to Paypal express so I ran curltest.php but all it shows is my main page

I checked "Excluded files" in the config and it says that /ipn_main_handler.php is in the list by default

Website located at:
http://santanoni.biz/

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
John

[catach]

Follow-up on previous post
I did make the following change in the .htaccess Could that have caused the orders to not log?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$

to:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(html|htm|php)$ [NC]

John

[catach]

OK
I found that the rewrite was the problem.
I had changed as follows:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$
to:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(html|htm|php)$ [NC]

I changed it back to basic:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$

and it works fine.

Not sure if:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(html|htm)$ [NC]

would work. I didn't take the time to find out. Maybe someone else has an answer to that.
Hope this helps someone
John

[conor]

Hi John,

Follow-up on previous post
I did make the following change in the .htaccess Could that have caused the orders to not log?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(html|htm|php)$ [NC]

Yes, that would have made the main index.php file responsible for all PHP and HTML files.. which isn't something you'd want!

Glad you've found the mistake and got things sorted now!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[vandiermen]

Just a quick comment to say my site has been fixed by Conor.

the files needed to be edited for "Zeus Web Server's", as they were made for Apache only.
"Zeus Web Server's" are very uncommon.

[vandiermen]

I should have wrote in the above post that hosting configuration needed changing and file update was made for "Zeus Web Server's", as Ceon URI Mapping (SEO) was made for Apache.

[Shane78]

Hi Conor,

how are you doing?... any better?

Just a quicky,
im rebuilding my main zc site this weekend. As you know im a fan of your URI mod... but im going to have a load of products that wil have several attributes..

you know..

boilersuit size,
Company logo, (front, back, both)
etc

I have never had products with attributes before but I have read posts that URI rewriting doesn't work with products with lots of attributes... Will your revamped upgraded version have resolved this problem when released?

Im just curious, it's not major problem if it doesn't.. im just asking so I can plan how im going to list products etc...

Take it easy
M

[conor]

Hi Martin,

How are you?

how are you doing?... any better?

Not much unfortunately. Heading for my latest MRI in about 10 minutes, so will get a nice half hour rest. :)

I have never had products with attributes before but I have read posts that URI rewriting doesn't work with products with lots of attributes... Will your revamped upgraded version have resolved this problem when released?

There's no problem with attributes.. it's simply that any product with attributes is seen as the same product (as that is the way Zen Cart works, not having "Product Variant" support and with 2.0.0 non-existent!).

To handle viewing of products with attributes which have already been added to the cart, the products_id must stay in the URI. There's a bug in the current version which breaks the format of this variable so that link between the cart back to the products page gets broken and it is this link which is fixed in the latest version of the software, 3.4.0. However, all other functionality (i.e. all the important stuff, like add to cart) works fine.

Depending on how today goes I may get the chance to package the new version up and release it before you get working on the site.. can't promise anything though!

At least you know now the new version's not essential for what you are doing - not having it won't affect how you do things, when you upgrade to 3.4.0 things will simply "work better". :)

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[saplanet]

I am using 1.39a, and was trying out on Ceon URI Mapping.

I have tried to create a test category with a test product, using the auto generated selection. When I tried to load that page, it doesn't load the product page, but only showing the homepage.

In addition, I had all error pages redirected to pagenotfound.php before installing Ceon, after including the rewrite rule into the .htaccess, the error pages redirection doesn't work anymore.

Has anyone encounter the new url not loading on the product page? I have more than a thousand products, so I don't want to change anything yet until I am able to get the test product to work, and able to log in as orders.

[saplanet]

Ok, I figured out that my error documents are not redirecting to pagenotfound.php because that it was directed to index.php instead. So that part is good now.

I am just waiting to see if anyone also experience the new url not landing on the product page.

Thanks