Simple SEO URLs for ZC 1.5.x [Support Thread]

[cvhainb]

Hi there,

I know that this is a great module and very helpful with people who are using zc so I've upgraded the code so that it can work well with zc 1.5.x. I have submitted to zen cart plugin and waiting for approve.

If you have any question, please ask here and I will support you.

Best Regards,

Chu

[SPH]

Hi,

I uploaded this plugin and it worked right away. Also, was an easy upload.

http://www.prommart.com/ (site being rebuilt - 1.5.1)

What I always liked about this plugin was that you can link products into various categories while retaining the original canonical link, and without having to use the c and p in the url.

As before, this plugin occupies two places in admin.

1. The admin/simple seo url works.

2. One problem: the admin/extras/simple seo url manager DOES NOT work. I get a blank page. So when I renamed a test category the simple seo did not also rename it since I cannot get to the cache to flush it for the name change. I'm assuming same would be should I rename a product.

I think we'll get this solved soon so it will be a great plugin for zencart for those who want pretty urls. I like that this is one of the older pretty url plugins.

[SPH]

I got the updated simple seo url plugin from your site and I can now see the alias manager in my admin/extras/simple seo url manager.

I did have to make an "aliases" folder in cache/ssu to get the aliases cache to re-set.

Appears to be working okay now, thanks!

[nfallat]

I recently upgraded to Zencart 1.5.1 and my brother (SPH) installed the SSU Manager. It appearerd to be working well until we saw that the pages suddently disappeared from the Manage Aliases page. It should have shown 77+ pages and was only showing 2 pages.

We figured out that if we just changed the url to a high page number in the browser, we could page through at that point.
https://www.promstobeaches.com/admin...s.php?page=200

So we did a reinstall and started over. It seemed OK for a while until the pages disappeared again. At first was able to adjust the browser url to page through the category and product listings but now that does not even work. So I have no way of paging through to see all of the pages, except for 2 pages.

Then, I noticed that after I uploaded a test product, the total number of urls showing at the bottom of SSU Manager did not increase by 1. I assume it should have shown up at the top of the first page of the manager as the latest ID. I thought it might take a while to appear but it still has not and I did this yesterday.



Also, I noticed a few days ago that one of the categories was not showing in SSU, at least not that I could find.

I appreciate any help you may be able to provide on this because I really don't want to go back to magic seo urls.
Thank you,
Nancy
promstobeaches.com

[cvhainb]

I have updated the new version and fix your problem. If it works fine for you, please write a review. Thanks.

[SilverHD]

Hi:

I have v 1.5.1. I just downloaded the latest Simple SEO and found that there are no installation instructions. Can someone tell me specifically how to install this? Where each folder and contents go, etc? I have had so much trouble in the past that I don't want to just "wing it."

Thank you,

Silver

[SilverHD]

Hello again:

Is there anyone who can help with the above Simple SEO install?

Thank you,

Silver

[cvhainb]

I think you can read the readme.txt. I do not know how to support if you have not any problem :-)

You also need to open the .htaccess, read the text and change it.

[tom97zr2]

I still get error message Log anytime I try to access an old web page from before I installed Zen Cart, and some of these logs are for web pages where nobody should be able to find them, except for search engines crawling all these other pages in my root folder. and this would explain why I don't get all these error messages logs on my test site. So I'm thinking about using a rewrite rule root/includes what do you think about that? That should work

[tom97zr2]

Ok so here is what is going on and how to fix it. If somehow someone or something goes to a mysite.com/directory/index.html link I used before Zencart, i get the error log, but if I add a rewrite cond RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/directory.* [NC] to my .htaccess file, then I don't get the error log, also then it will use the setting I have in my hosting account control panel to redirect all 404 errors to my home page (or what ever link/page I want) if I remove the directory or file and someone finds the old link somewhere. I also added RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(html|jpg|png|gif|ico|txt)$ [NC] .

Some of these error logs I don't understand why I get them, they are for tpl_phpMyAdmin_default.php , tpl_pma_default.php and tpl_myadmin_default.php , I get these 3 error logs at the same exact time, and I don't get these right when I access my phpMyAdmin from my hosting account control panel, and myadmin is not the name of my admin.

I can also prevent many of these error logs by adding a empty blank file with these file names in the templates folder, as mentioned above, I did this for the ones that were happening all the time like the faviconico error log.

Here is the .htaccess file code below I'm using in my site's root folder:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# Make sure to change "zencart" to the subfolder you install ZC. If you use root folder, change to: RewriteBase /
#RewriteBase /zencart/
RewriteBase /

# Deny access from .htaccess
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(html|jpg|png|gif|ico|txt)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/directory.* [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L,PT]