Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

[JimmyV]

I am sorry if this has been answered i could not find it or missed it

I have this on a site it's amazing it was all new and only 70 skus.

However I want to add it to another site and it has 5,000 SKU's. Needless to say I don't want to manually open each one and save it thus generating the new address.

PLUS I don't want to lose the settings as the db is updated using ezpopulate and those updates are frequent.

Am I missing something or is there add on software to automate this process because I am scared to even start that one.

[countrycharm]

I am sorry if this has been answered i could not find it or missed it

I have this on a site it's amazing it was all new and only 70 skus.

However I want to add it to another site and it has 5,000 SKU's. Needless to say I don't want to manually open each one and save it thus generating the new address.

PLUS I don't want to lose the settings as the db is updated using ezpopulate and those updates are frequent.

Am I missing something or is there add on software to automate this process because I am scared to even start that one.

Read this post, it was posted a few pages back.

The well written readme that comes with this add-on is VERY clear that in order to create URIs for an existing store you will have to edit each category or product manually.

Can you import the URI's into the databse using phpMyAdmin?? Yes you can, but to facilitate this you will need to create a data file with all 8000 products and add the URI's to this data file, then import this data file via phpMyAdmin.

or

as several of us have spoken of FREQUENTLY you can purchase the Ceon URI Mapping Manager from Ceon's website. This was just recently mentioned a few days ago on this support thread (http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=449) which is why I always say it's a good idea to read through the support thread.. there's ALWAYS good information posted, and most questions are already answered..

The Mappings Manager will do many things including auto generating URIs for existing stores.



Not buggy at all.. Conor makes oneof the few mods that I can say is TRULY bug/trouble-free.. Like Conor said, it really sounds like you've made some mistakes with your install.. Roll back to the state BEFORE installing Ceon URI and simply start over making sure you take care to carefully MERGE the core file overwrites to include any modifications you may have already made to these files..

[DivaVocals]

Yes, you will have to re-generate the URIs, the current ones will then become historical URIs, so they will redirect to the new ones, which is very handy. You can just turn on some music and get clicking, it does take time but you only have to do it once more by the sounds of things. I can't talk about alternative ways here.

I'll be happy to share the information for you..

My question: if I make the changes above, will I have to manually rename my url's for the categories, and/or for the product pages? (The former representling a little work, but the latter representing a lot of work!)

See this post: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...20#post1108420

[JimmyV]

I thought the mapping was the answer. Thank You.

[JBattin]

I am hoping someone can help me with this and that I'm not posting something someone else did. I apologize if I have.

I have a site where the 1st thing is a wordpress blog. So in the root directory I have rewrites for the blog in the .htaccess. The Zen Cart store is a couple of subdirectories under the main directory.

I have added the Ceon rewrite statements to the end of that .htaccess but they don't work (I get a 404). If I remove the blog rewrite stuff then the categories will work (the product pages don't, the product pages work, but the links are not canonical).

Anyone have an idea for a resolution?

Thanks for the assistance.

[conor]

Hi,

I have added the Ceon rewrite statements to the end of that .htaccess but they don't work (I get a 404).

Stop wordpress overriding the Ceon rewrite rule by adding an exclusion condition to its rule (for the shop directory/URI parts), or, since you are running the store at least one level down, put the Ceon rewrite rule before the wordpress one, whatever it is (never used WP myself, it's a [poor man's] competitor to Ceon's aarck/aawe system ;) ), and add an exclusion for wordpress' URIs.

If I remove the blog rewrite stuff then the categories will work (the product pages don't, the product pages work, but the links are not canonical).

That's a mistake by you then. You've missed something when installing Ceon URI Mapping or your template is missing the necessary Zen Cart code to use it - the $canonicalLink stuff (on 1.3.8 this is easily missed as html_header.php also needs modified in that ancient version).

Make sure you have the Ceon URI Mapping modified version of init_canonical.php in the includes/init_includes/overrides directory.

Hopefully the above is enough to get you sorted.

If not then you should install the software from scratch again to fix whatever you missed.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

whatever it is (never used WP myself, it's a [poor man's] competitor to Ceon's aarck/aawe system ;) )

THIS caught my attention.. Hmmmm do tell sir.. do tell..

[conor]

Hi,

Hope you're well Diva.. not long to St Paddy's day!

THIS caught my attention.. Hmmmm do tell sir.. do tell..

lol another time and another place I think.. :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

Hi,

Hope you're well Diva.. not long to St Paddy's day!

Happy St Paddy's Day to you to sir!!

lol another time and another place I think.. :)

No fair!!!!! I wanna know the secret!!!

[countrycharm]

Happy St Paddy's Day to you to sir!!



No fair!!!!! I wanna know the secret!!!

Wishing you two a Happy St Paddy's Day to.
Yea I want to know too the secret... Conor