How to avoid this?

**tonibarcelona** · 29 Dec 2007, 11:34 PM

Hi! I need help on this:
I have a lot of urls indexed at google duplicating my home page:
www.mysite.com/shop/index.php?alpha_filter_id=89
www.mysite.com/shop/index.php?alpha_filter_id=64
www.mysite.com.com/shop/index.php?alpha_filter_id=71

etc etc
How can i redirect without .htaccess all these urls to www.mysite.com/shop/ ?

**Webskipper** · 30 Dec 2007, 04:27 AM

I'd go into your Host Cpanel and create a redirect from there.

You could create an index.php (or other) and add a redirect script to it which is not as reliable as doing it on your cpanel.

<html lang=en><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>Wind Shift</title><link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"></head><body><script type="text/javascript"> location = "/catalog/index.php";</script></body></html>

Either way you must have access to your public folder.
Redirects are the best way.

**tonibarcelona** · 30 Dec 2007, 02:21 PM

Many thanks for your reply, Webskipper, but i haven´t Cpanel, and javascript redirecting isn´t good for serach engines.
I want to know the method to do the redirecting required inside zencart, maybe into the head.php?

**tonibarcelona** · 2 Jan 2008, 07:53 PM

No one?

**tonibarcelona** · 3 Jan 2008, 11:40 PM

i have been pending 5 days trying to solve this...
First i studied the doc about autoloaders trying to hook a "brute force"redirect, but doesn´t works...
After that i included this at index.php:

/**
* Load general code run before page closes
*/
if ($this_is_home_page)
{
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location:http://www.mysite.com/shop/');
}

doesn´t works...it redirects continously load after load...

i thought maybe inserting this at main_template_vars:

// elimina alpha filter si está en la página princpal index.php
if ($this_is_home_page == true) {
unset($_GET['alpha_filter_id']);
unset($alpha_filter_id);
function remove_query_param($url, $param)
{
$tokens = explode ('?', $url);
$url_path = $tokens[0];
$query_string = $tokens[1];
$qs_array = parse_query_string($query_string);
unset($qs_array[$param]);
$new_query_string = '';
return $url_path . $new_query_string;
}
}

but don´t do nothing. Maybe in includes/modules/pages/index/header.php? maybe at the filter.php?

I´m desperate. My knowlege of php is near zero, and i can not make redirects at my host because it hasn´t mod_rewrite allowed...

Please help me!!!

**banswidthjunkie** · 4 Jan 2008, 12:52 AM

is changing host an option. they sound pretty awful.

**tonibarcelona** · 4 Jan 2008, 01:42 AM

Not possible at this moment

Can you help with the php grammar necessary to do it?
or can you say me which file must i edit?

**banswidthjunkie** · 4 Jan 2008, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by tonibarcelona

Not possible at this moment

Can you help with the php grammar necessary to do it?
or can you say me which file must i edit?

How about what you had before, but

PHP Code:


  if( ereg("\?alpha_filter_id=[0-9]+$", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ) {
    header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
    header('Location:http://www.mysite.com/shop/');
  }

That will catch the filter if it is the only variable. I think that is a brutal hack, but it's up to you.

Personally I think that you are worrying about nothing, in time google will get a decent index of your site and those things will filter away.

**tonibarcelona** · 4 Jan 2008, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by banswidthjunkie

How about what you had before, but

PHP Code:


  if( ereg("\?alpha_filter_id=[0-9]+$", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ) {
    header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
    header('Location:http://www.mysite.com/shop/');
  }

That will catch the filter if it is the only variable. I think that is a brutal hack, but it's up to you.

Personally I think that you are worrying about nothing, in time google will get a decent index of your site and those things will filter away.

Many thanks for your proposal. Maybe it´s abrutal hack, but by now is the only i have... At what fileis better inserting this? Filter.php? index.php?, or maybe to make a new php file and hooking it at auto-load?

I worry about this because i have 23 "main pages" indexed at google with an alpha filte id!!! Very bad for the serps... That thisn´t happen to any other zen cart user?

**banswidthjunkie** · 4 Jan 2008, 04:40 PM

Personally I wouldn't put it anywhere. But you could try putting it where you had the bit of code that caused your site to continually loop.

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