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

[lat9]

USU, Version 3.0.0-beta2 is now available for beta-testing: https://github.com/lat9/usu/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta2

This version requires a Zen Cart version 1.5.5 or later for its proper operation, but can continue to operate on Zen Cart versions 1.5.1 through 1.5.4 by following the installation/upgrade instructions in the readme. Other than the supplied .htaccess file, there are no longer any core-file modifications required by USU!

Please report any issues found in this support thread. Unless something really bad happens, I'll plan on publishing the v3.0.0 release sometime next week.

[shags38]

USU, Version 3.0.0-beta2 is now available for beta-testing: https://github.com/lat9/usu/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta2

This version requires a Zen Cart version 1.5.5 or later for its proper operation, but can continue to operate on Zen Cart versions 1.5.1 through 1.5.4 by following the installation/upgrade instructions in the readme. Other than the supplied .htaccess file, there are no longer any core-file modifications required by USU!

Please report any issues found in this support thread. Unless something really bad happens, I'll plan on publishing the v3.0.0 release sometime next week.

Sounds great Cindy - I assume this version will take care of the canonical issue with the current version in 1.5.5f ?

cheers, Mike

[lat9]

Sounds great Cindy - I assume this version will take care of the canonical issue with the current version in 1.5.5f ?

cheers, Mike

Mike, while previous versions of USU went out of their way to generate a canonical link, v3.0.0 and later simply allow the base Zen Cart's (plus other modules', if used) zen_href_link calls in /includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php to provide the canonical links.

My best guess is that the canonical link handling in USU was introduced to support Zen Cart versions prior to 1.3.9 (where the built-in canonical-link handling was introduced) and was never removed.

Note that the upgrade process from v2 => v3 is going to be a bit of a pain, requiring core-file editing to remove portions automatically added by the prior versions' installation, but once there all should be good.

Note also that I "discovered" that USU-v2's distribution zip includes an override to the init_canonical.php handling (/includes/init_includes/overrides/init_canonical.php). This override, I believe, could be safely removed from a zc155/zc154 store's file-system to allow USU to simply provide the href-links as requested by other processing ... noting that there are other plugins that also use this form of override.

[kenaniah]

I loaded a fresh zen cart with numinix google analytics and encrypted master password. It is working fine.
i loaded a fresh zen cart with numinix google analytics, encrypted master password and the usu 3.0 beta 2. I was unable to login as a customer, logout, unsubscribe, etc. Here are the settings I was using:

configuration_key configuration_value
USU_CACHE_CATEGORIES TRUE
USU_CACHE_EZ_PAGES TRUE
USU_CACHE_GLOBAL TRUE
USU_CACHE_MANUFACTURERS TRUE
USU_CACHE_PRODUCTS TRUE
USU_CACHE_RESET FALSE
USU_CATEGORY_DIR off
USU_CPATH off
USU_DEBUG FALSE
USU_ENABLED TRUE
USU_END .html
USU_ENGINE rewrite
USU_FILTER_PAGES index, product_info, product_music_info, document_general_info, document_product_info, product_free_shipping_info, products_new, products_all, shopping_cart, featured_products, specials, contact_us, conditions, privacy, reviews, shippinginfo, faqs_all, site_map, gv_faq, discount_coupon, page, page_2, page_3, page_4
USU_FILTER_PCRE
USU_FILTER_SHORT_WORDS 0
USU_FORMAT original
USU_REDIRECT TRUE
USU_REMOVE_CHARS punctuation
USU_VERSION 3.0.0-beta2

[jeking]

I loaded a fresh zen cart with numinix google analytics and encrypted master password. It is working fine.
i loaded a fresh zen cart with numinix google analytics, encrypted master password and the usu 3.0 beta 2. I was unable to login as a customer, logout, unsubscribe, etc. Here are the settings I was using:

configuration_key configuration_value
USU_CACHE_CATEGORIES TRUE
USU_CACHE_EZ_PAGES TRUE
USU_CACHE_GLOBAL TRUE
USU_CACHE_MANUFACTURERS TRUE
USU_CACHE_PRODUCTS TRUE
USU_CACHE_RESET FALSE
USU_CATEGORY_DIR off
USU_CPATH off
USU_DEBUG FALSE
USU_ENABLED TRUE
USU_END .html
USU_ENGINE rewrite
USU_FILTER_PAGES index, product_info, product_music_info, document_general_info, document_product_info, product_free_shipping_info, products_new, products_all, shopping_cart, featured_products, specials, contact_us, conditions, privacy, reviews, shippinginfo, faqs_all, site_map, gv_faq, discount_coupon, page, page_2, page_3, page_4
USU_FILTER_PCRE
USU_FILTER_SHORT_WORDS 0
USU_FORMAT original
USU_REDIRECT TRUE
USU_REMOVE_CHARS punctuation
USU_VERSION 3.0.0-beta2

Is a 'fresh zen cart' version 1.5.6a?
When you do try to 'login as a customer' what happens? An error logs? How can you log out if you can't log in??

In order to help, it is helpful to know the steps you took to create the problems you describe and exactly what the problem is.

[lat9]

@kenaniah, is your site running https-only? If so, would you post the top portion of your /includes/configure.php and /admin/includes/configure.php, in each case up to and including the DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG definition?

Is your site's .htaccess modified over-and-above that distributed as part of the USU zip-file?

[kenaniah]

First I had posted this issue as a problem with the encrypted master password. At that point I was able to login from Admin link to login as customer but not from the regular website. From there I was not able to logout on the regular website. What happens is it takes me to a screen that has the correct url but there is nothing there.... like a webpage not found. Right now the website is http and https.

https://www.XXXXX.com/index.php?main_page=login

This page isn’t working www.XXXXXXX.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

Same error on both http and https


[18-Feb-2019 17:18:53 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function href_link() on null in /home/xxx/public_html/xxxx/includes/classes/observers/UsuObserver.php on line 52

[18-Feb-2019 17:18:53 UTC] Request URI: /index.php?main_page=login, IP address: xxx
--> PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function href_link() on null in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/includes/classes/observers/UsuObserver.php on line 52.


configure.php

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.xxx.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.xxx.com');
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/xxx/public_html/xxx/');



Thanks guys for the help!

[kenaniah]

I am using the USU .htaccess

[lat9]

You've apparently missed a file in the installation: /includes/classes/usu.php.

[kenaniah]

Sorry, I had removed the files and uninstalled.... I will put it back in and see if I get errors to the log