301 Redirects Not Working Fully

[lhungil]

The flaw, which has always existed in USEO is that the following urls will ALL load the same page.....

safety-boots-rigger-boots-c-32.html
-c-6_32.html
something-something-something-c-6_119_32.html

This is not true in the current versions.

You will notice the following line in the .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

This line sends the URL generated by "Ultimate SEO URLs" to the Zen Cart dynamic URLs. Wait What? Yes, "Ultimate SEO URLs" internally uses the same URLs as Zen Cart!

So "something-something-something-c-6_119_32.html" becomes "index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6_119_32".
And "safety-boots-rigger-boots-c-32.html" becomes "index.php?main_page=index&cPath=32".
And "-c-6_32.html" becomes "index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6_32".

Newer versions of "Ultimate SEO URLs" use a slightly different .htaccess file with optimizations for performance.

[jenchord]

Hello,
I'm hoping that perhaps you can help me. I am trying to redirect one of my product info pages to a defines page (don't ask why!).
Here's the code in my htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^main_page=document_product_info&cPath34&products_id=130$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite/index.php?main_page=about_us [R=301,L]

I am pretty certain that the rewrite condition is correct as I've gotten the redirect to work "sometimes" -- meaning that messing with the rewrite rule, it previously redirected to my homepage instead of my about us page.
I've messed around with the the last line some more, and now it doesn't redirect to anywhere.

I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to the htaccess. The code snippets above I've gotten from mixing and matching from other posts.
I think all I need is a correction on the rewrite rule.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[mprough]

Like this

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} main_page=document_product_info&cPath34&products_id=130
RewriteRule (.*) http://mysite/index.php?main_page=about_us$1? [R=301,L]

In the last line depending on how the resulting url looks, IE appended or not, then you may need to change to

RewriteRule (.*) http://mysite/index.php?main_page=about_us$1 [R=301,L]

or

RewriteRule (.*) http://mysite/index.php?main_page=about_us [R=301,L]

Cheers,
Melanie

[lhungil]

You may also need to use multiple RewriteCond lines if the parameters are not always in the same order.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} main_page=document_product_info
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} cPath=34
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} products_id=130
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://mysite/index.php?main_page=about_us [R=301,L]

[jenchord]

Thanky much!

This "RewriteRule (.*) http://mysite/index.php?main_page=about_us [R=301,L]" worked.

Thanks again.

[jenchord]

For the rewrite conditions, both this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} main_page=document_product_info&cPath=34&products_id=130

and this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} main_page=document_product_info
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} cPath=34
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} products_id=130

worked.

Thanks!

[jenchord]

On a slightly different topic, I am using the "ceon uri mapping" module to make my category and product urls better looking (and I've heard it MIGHT improve SEO).
Anyway, I've noticed that there are duplicate pages for lower and upper-case letters. For example, one of my styled urls
"mysite.com/Fashion-Clothes" can also be found through the url, "mysite.com/fashion-clothes".

Does google see this as two different pages with the same content?
If so, is there a simple redirect I can do in htaccess so that any upper-case-letter urls get redirected to lower-case-letter pages?

Thanks for letting me tap into your guys' higher knowledge