Zenid Redirect Issue

[bumba000]

Hey All,
1.5.1, on linux 2.6, running php 5.4.32

Recently noticing some customers log in and end at thesite.com/?zenid=..... which is being redirected to thesite.com/index.html?zenid=.... which in turn delivers 404 page not found because there is no index.html.

What in the world could be causing this behavior?

Thanks, John

[dbltoe]

Something is very, very wrong in the basic creation of your pages. A quick look at your homepage's page source with the HTML validator shows 86 errors.

[bumba000]

guess I too see some issues with some markup like img alt text and data attributes on the category links, but that wouldn't cause this issue.

Funny thing is that this is not happening on the dev site (same server nearly the same location...). as visiting site.com/dev/?zenid=.... redirects to site.com/dev/index.html?zenid=... and loads the home page.

Strange though as there's no index.html on either live or dev.

[DrByte]

thesite.com/?zenid=..... which is being redirected to thesite.com/index.html?zenid=.... which in turn delivers 404 page not found because there is no index.html.

What could be causing this behavior?

That's typical of having rewrite rules in the /.htaccess of your site, or of having something in your server's master Apache configuration (or your vhost) which auto-adds index.html if no file is listed in the URL.

[bumba000]

the htaccess is the same for Live and Dev. why would the 404 only happen on the live site?

[DrByte]

The question is not why a 404 is occurring, but rather: what in your site is causing the "index.html" to be added to the URL?

As I said, it could be added by the server configuration, by rewrite rules added by you (either knowingly or unknowingly by installing a so-called SEO plugin), or by installing plugins, or by someone altering the code on your server.

[lhungil]

the htaccess is the same for Live and Dev. why would the 404 only happen on the live site?

Please post a copy of the ".htaccess" file found in the root Zen Cart folder. Please post any ".htaccess" files in parent folders. For example if Zen Cart is located at "http://example.com/store/", provide the .htaccess file located at "/store/" and "/". Use [code][/code] tags around the file contents.

In what ways is your site different from a "clean" installation of Zen Cart?

Can you provide a URL (so we can see the behavior and look at the HTTP headers)?


NOTE: As noted by DrByte, your hosting provider's master Apache configuration (or your domain's vhost) may be configured to redirect requests for "/" to "/index.html" (or "/store/" to "/store/index.html").

[bumba000]

I was missing three lines in the live htaccess file...

# All other pages
# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Thanks guys,
John