Href on product pages wrong after moving of page

[DrByte]

Zen Cart builds its URLs from the data in your configure.php files. That's it.

[danmoto]

@DrByte

Thank you for the fast answer.

The configure.php files are updated to the new path correctly.
I attached a copy of them for review on the end of this post.

What i don't get it that the page initialy loads correctly, but after you follow any link on the page it changes the link value.

Configure.php includes

<?php

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.dan-moto.com');

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://www.dan-moto.com');

define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false');


define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/DM_US/');

define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/DM_US/');



define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');

define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');

define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');

define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');

define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

define('DIR_WS_TEMPLATES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'templates/');



define('DIR_WS_PHPBB', '/DM_US/');



define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/danmotoc/public_html/DM_US/');



define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

define('DIR_WS_UPLOADS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . '/uploads/');

define('DIR_FS_UPLOADS', DIR_FS_CATALOG . DIR_WS_UPLOADS);

define('DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'email/');




define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');

define('DB_PREFIX', '');

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'XXX');

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'XXX');

define('DB_DATABASE', 'XXX');

define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false');

define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'db');



define('SQL_CACHE_METHOD', 'none');

define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/danmotoc/public_html/DM_US/cache');



// EOF


configure.php admin/includes


<?php



define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.dan-moto.com');

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.dan-moto.com');

define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.dan-moto.com');

define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://www.dan-moto.com');




define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'false');

define('ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN', 'false');





define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/DM_US/admin/');

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/DM_US/');

define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/DM_US/admin/');

define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/DM_US/');



define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_TEMPLATE', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/templates/');

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');

define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');

define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');

define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');

define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');

define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');





define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/danmotoc/public_html/DM_US/admin/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/danmotoc/public_html/DM_US/');



define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'images/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_MODULES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/modules/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_TEMPLATES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/templates/');

define('DIR_FS_BACKUP', DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'backups/');

define('DIR_FS_EMAIL_TEMPLATES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'email/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');



// define our database connection

define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');

define('DB_PREFIX', '');

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'XXX');

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'XXX');

define('DB_DATABASE', 'XXX');

define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false');

define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'db');


define('SQL_CACHE_METHOD', 'none');

define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/danmotoc/public_html/DM_US/cache');



// EOF

[schoolboy]

Your site is using some sort of URL re-write system. This is ALWAYS a bad idea with zencart. It serves no useful purpose (not even for seo) and these mods generally create far more problems than they claim to solve.

What is your reason for using static url's ?

[danmoto]

Hello Schoolboy,

thank you for your answer.

Actualy, i would be happy to know what this should do and how i can change it.

The page was setup by somebody else, i do not know what this person changed/modified/added.

I'm just stuck with the result and somehow need to fix it.

Any idea where this function might be located?

[schoolboy]

We have never used these "SEO URL" modules (and never will), so I am not knowledgeable about their set-up.

There may be some issues, however, when removing it.

Despite the fact that these modules have NO INFLUENCE on SEO, you need to bear in mind that the search engines will have associated the URL with the underlying content in their indexing of the site.

If you now remove this module (to revert to dynamic URL's), then the search engines will show the OLD url's (the ones in their index) and anyone clicking the link will probably get a 404 error (page not found). Too many of these, (all of them in your case) and search engines will drop your site down the rankings faster than a falling meteorite, and possibly relegate it to a secondary index. This is bad news.

The only way around this is to do 301 re-directs, which will be a list of ALL the old "static" url's, pointing to their corresponding new "dynamic" url. This is a time-consuming and tedious process, and someone more knowledgeable than me will have to advise you of how to set all this up (in a .htaccess file).

The other issue is that if the search engines have in their archive, page url's and the underlying content, when they spider your site again they will see the new url's, spider these - only to find what they then think is duplicate content... another penalising characteristic.

You may have a setting in ADMIN >>> CONFIGURATION (look for something that says URL, or SEO URL or URL REWRITE) where there is an on/off switch.

If this exists, you can turn off the module, which should revert the store to core behaviour.

HOWEVER... bear in mind that BEFORE you turn it off, you need to address the 301 re-direct issue...

[danmoto]

Thank you so much for your answer! I guess the problem is solved

The page had a "search engine optimization" tool installed, which re-wrote the URL's.

I switched it off and it appears to work fine now.

I'll do some more testing and come back if there are any new issues.