VendingBox Plugin Support Thread

[gal_op]

Hi There,
Great Addone idea, thanks!

But it is not working for me
When clicking import all settings i get:

"No valid feed could be found at the specified URL. Please ensure that you have installed the correct plugin and have entered the URL correctly. "

I have uploaded the file into our root folder so i think it might be an addone issue, we have installed the following addones:
Ceon URI Mapping
Easy populate
image handler
Zen lightbox
Sitemap XML
Google Base datafeed
Site bBackup
Mailbeez

Zen cart version is 1.3.9
themineralmiracle.com.au

Thanks

[vb_support]

Hi There,
Great Addone idea, thanks!

But it is not working for me
When clicking import all settings i get:


I have uploaded the file into our root folder so i think it might be an addone issue, we have installed the following addones:
Ceon URI Mapping ...

Hi gal_op,

We're getting 404 (not found) errors when we try to import your products. This is probably caused by the Ceon URI Mapping add-on.

We'll try to fix this by making changes on our server. If that doesn't work, we'll release a new version of the VendingBox plugin which can deal with the complications of Ceon URI.

Yours,
VendingBox Support.

[vb_support]

Hi There,
Great Addone idea, thanks!

But it is not working for me...

Zen cart version is 1.3.9
themineralmiracle.com.au

Thanks

Hi,

The problem with Ceon URI Mapping can be solved by putting the URL of the vendingbox_feed.php file into the list of URL's which are to be excluded from remapping.

The way to do this is to log in to the admin section, go to Modules -> Ceon URI Mapping (SEO) Config, and then enter:

/vendingbox_feed.php

into the Excluded Files box at the end. If there are already files listed in the box, add /vendingbox_feed.php to the end of the comma-separated list. Then click Save and the VendingBox imports should work.

For users who have their Zen Cart folder in a subdirectory, they should use the full path to the vendingbox_feed.php file. For example, if the store is located at http://mystore.com/store/ then you would add /store/vendingbox_feed.php to the list of excluded files.

Many thanks to gal_op for finding the issue. We'll add these instructions to the installation instructions for the next release of the plugin.

Best regards,
VB Support.

[gal_op]

Thanks!

Thanks working great

[mmadany]

Hi,

I am trying to configure my store with Vending Box but every time I try to Import All Settings, I get the following error message:

No valid feed could be found at the specified URL. Please ensure that you have installed the correct plugin and have entered the URL correctly.

My website is www.modernhejab.com

I have also added /vendingbox_feed.php to the excluded files for Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Please let me know what I am doing wrong. Your help is greatly appreciated!

[vb_support]

Hi,

The file seems to be there but is redirecting to your main site for some reason. We'll communicate with you through email to solve the problem and put the solution here so that others can make use of it if the same thing happens to them.

Best regards,
VendingBox Support.

[vb_support]

This problem arises when the .htaccess file is set to redirect requests to the index.php script.

If your .htaccess file looks like the following:

# Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(html|htm|php)$ [NC]
# Don't rewrite admin directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/zc_admin [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]


then you need to add the following two lines just above the "# Handle all other ..." line:

# Don't rewrite VendingBox feed request
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/vendingbox [NC]

This will prevent mod_rewrite from intercepting requests made to the vendingbox_feed.php file.

Thanks to mmadany for finding the issue.