Ultimate SEO v3 (and v2.200) [Support Thread]

[Jeff_Mash]

This is probably a very EASY question, but I have literally been stuck for days on this.

I have the default Ultimate SEO module installed and it works great. I just installed the Mailbeez module which has certain pop up windows. However, instead of the pop up windows loading the right page, the Ultimate SEO is 301 redirecting and I want to exclude that!

For example, here is the link that the Mailbeez module launches: http://www.mydomain.com/store/mailhive.php?253602717457fee4f909e4e9bf39e92a=view&format=txt&module=winback

Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently

Redirected to: http://www.mydomain.com/store/<b>ind...module=winback

As you can see, something in Ultimate SEO is redirecting this to index.html and stripping the mailhive.php out of the URL.

What line can I add into the htaccess file so that both the Mailhive.php FILE and the Mailhive DIRECTORY isn't touched? In other words, I don't want mydomain.com/store/mailhive.php to be redirected, nor do I want anything redirected in the mydomain.com/store/mailhive/ directory.

What line should I add in my htaccess file to achieve both of those goals?

[Jeff_Mash]

Nevermind - I figured it out. I had to set to FALSE the following configuration variable: Enable automatic redirects?

Once I did that, it worked just fine!

[lhungil]

Nevermind - I figured it out. I had to set to FALSE the following configuration variable: Enable automatic redirects?

Once I did that, it worked just fine!

Sorry for the slow response, have been away from my notebook most of the weekend. Glad you were able to try changing a few options and found a solution. If I had to venture a guess... I'd guess the root cause is the 3rd party module you installed is not fully integrated into Zen Cart (it loads application_top.php but was not coded as a Zen Cart page).

If this is the case with your module, you want the "automatic redirects" feature enabled, and you are comfortable working with PHP:
Take a peek at this post about 3rd party modules not integrating as a Zen Cart page but loading Zen Cart's application_top. On some servers you may need the leading "/" added to the URI in the example.

Note: There is only one case where it may be advantageous for a 3rd party module to not be integrated as a Zen Cart page and load application_top. This is when the page needs to be able to operate while the database is unavailable (and the 3rd party module would need to be specially coded to work w/o a database connection). This is a very rarely encountered scenario.

[Jerry5763837]

Hi, Guys,

appreciated for your great mod. it work wonderful for our zencart site.

however may we ask if any bug fix for linked products? you know for linked product, ultmate seo always select the first products_category table as its master cagategory. that is, when click a linked products, then the breadcrumbs shows it belongs to the category linked to, not real master category.

your comments would be highly appreciated.

[lhungil]

Ultimate URLs uses the category assigned to the current product. When the product is in category 15 and linked to a product in category 14... Then the product is correctly treated as being in category 15 (which is the category containing the product).

[Jerry5763837]

Ultimate URLs uses the category assigned to the current product. When the product is in category 15 and linked to a product in category 14... Then the product is correctly treated as being in category 15 (which is the category containing the product).

Hi, Lhungil,

thanks for your explain.

the bug fix in new version of Ultiimate SEO 2.200, correct?

on our site, old ultimate seo and 1.38a was used, so maybe it is reason.
take a example.
product A is under cagtegory c-A, and then linked to category c-B
and its real master category is A

if A > B, then ultimate seo select B as master category, which is bad
if A < B, then ultimate seo select A as master category, which is correct

any further suggestions on this? thank you

[lhungil]

... on our site, old ultimate seo and 1.38a was used, so maybe it is reason. ...

That would be a good possibility as the current version of Ultimate SEO does not support running under 1.38a. One would need to first upgrade to at least Zen Cart 1.3.9h (and probably should upgrade to Zen Cart 1.5.1) before trying to install / use the current version.


For the most part the current version of Ultimate URLs only alters the generated URLs and does not change any other core Zen Cart code / behavior.