Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[DivaVocals]

If you skipped ANY steps you will get this result.. Re-read the install docs.. follow ALL the steps..

Hi Ceon,

How are you?

Thank you for giving me a great software for SEO purpose.

I got a small issue for ZC 1.3.9h.

I download and replace all the file with 1.3.9c version
Then I configure the Auto URI Mapping, but I don't know how to do last 2 steps in installation.

My admin folder is ak

Then I test the product URL:
http://www.akshop.com.au/Desktop/AMD-Machine

But it doesn't work. Is the reason of this cause I skip the final 2 steps?

Hope to hear from you soon.

[anqus11]

I tried to do the step 4 by creating an .htaccess file in my root (as i can't see any .htaccess exist). The .htaccess as follow:

# Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-z]{2,5}$ [NC]
# Don't rewrite admin directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ak [NC]
# Don't rewrite editors directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors [NC]
# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/frontend [NC]
# Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (index.php)
RewriteRule .* index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

My admin folder is AK. All the steps is done but the URI link is still not work. Can you help?

[conor]

Hi,

I tried to do the step 4 by creating an .htaccess file in my root (as i can't see any .htaccess exist). The .htaccess as follow:

That looks good. It should work for the setup you've described.

I'm not sure what's wrong on your server.. possibly .htaccess files can't actually be used on your server?

Please send me FTP and admin details for your site and I'll see if I can identify/fixc the problem.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[celticwebsolutions]

After having just had upgrade issues myself I have to agree with Conor, I did an upgrade one version at a time from c - h just copying over the files that changed in each revision. Then after that I went back through the ceon install instructions and altered / replaced any files that the updates overwrote that needed alterations for ceon to work.

So that 5 separate updates I applied and at no point have I disabled ceon once I knew what I was doing. It's actually extremely easy once you re-read the instructions and notes that come with the zencart packages

Ceon is an excellent package and should be made part of the standard release if you ask me! Support is also exemplary!

This module is causing issues on almost every one of our client's websites that uses it.

1) the htacess rules make zc_install inaccessible so upgrading requires the module to be disabled temporarily in order to patch the database... we shouldn't have to do this.

2) it doesn't allow you to exclude certain pages from being re-written and as a result mods like Fast and Easy Checkout are losing URL parameters when redirecting between pages.

3) Even when the module is turned off, the .htaccess rules are still in effect.

Considering this is a SEO URLs module, it is important that it does not cause issues as uninstalling may not be an option or devastating effects could happen to a site's search engine rankings.