Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[Gerjan]

A note for Gerjan, as a business... .....that is really annoying.

I agree. But I would be happy to get this to work. I'm very happy with Zen-Cart and the people who take the effort of creating software/modules for it. So the least I can do is give it a change to solve the bugs.

I do have the Ultimate SEO installed on my live site www.coolcarpartsonline.com it works like a charm with no errors and you can see it in action. This site has 20K products and hundreds of mods with no problem and looks very professional.

Indeed a very nice site. When things don't work out well it's my next option to use Ultimate SEO.

Google Sitemap will generate an error since the SE mods use 301 redirection, if your site has been live for a while you will not really need sitemaps. I will encourage using Google Base as it does increase traffic and customers.

I only use google sitemap and Google Adwords now. I will look at Google base, looks interesting, thanks.

Gerjan

[jill8026]

Conor - I am so sorry, I totally forgot that those were hardcoded in like that...I was only looking in the admin not even thinking about the HTML!!!! I am so sorry!!!!! :-)

On my other clients site I am using the actual ez-pages not hardcoded links.....which is why they worked fine!!!!!!!

THanks again for an awesome mod!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi,



After spending about 10 mins looking at this it would appear that the EZ-Page system can't generate the query string value you are seeing (it doesn't append semi-colons). However, you appear to have hard-coded links into the bottom of your page which do generate this link.

The "Product Scents" link at the bottom of the page is:

http://www.vintagebodyspa.com/index....=33&chapter=0;

Which clearly has a chapter setting of "0;" after it which is exactly what

chapter=0%3B

equates to when it is encoded.

Change those hard-coded links to the static URIs (e.g. /product-scents) or drop the "&chapter=0;" and everything will work fine.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[mcleanmell2]

I have two sites one on line and the other on my computer. the one on my computer its Uri mapping is OK. the other I get a 404 and a 500. my hosting site upgraded to, php 5 and have posted this statement. users are not able to have php flags in their .htaccess file. Having php flags in .htaccess files is a common cause of internal server errors on servers with phpSuExec enabled. One way around this is to create a custom php.ini
could this be casing my problem? if so how do I get a round it.

[AfterHouR]

Hi Conor
I have installed the mod on zen 1.3.7.1 as this is what I have been looking for, for a long time and didn't fancy any of the other mods like ultimate seo etc.

Installation went swimmingly, I have several hundred products on a live site http://www.allgoodideas.co.uk

so I have auto created uri for categories, which are fine but the first product I have updated is this one http://www.allgoodideas.co.uk/Hiking...Staff?cPath=94

but as you can see, it still shows the cpath id

Where have I gone wrong

other mods installed are
Worldpay module
recover cart sales
user tracking
google base feeder
and single page checkout

all still seem to be working fine and I checked the core files before overwriting and they were default without any changes..

Please help :)

Kind Regards
AfterHouR

[conor]

Hi,

I have two sites one on line and the other on my computer. the one on my computer its Uri mapping is OK. the other I get a 404 and a 500. my hosting site upgraded to, php 5 and have posted this statement. users are not able to have php flags in their .htaccess file. Having php flags in .htaccess files is a common cause of internal server errors on servers with phpSuExec enabled. One way around this is to create a custom php.ini
could this be casing my problem? if so how do I get a round it.

A new version of the module is in Release Candidate stage, out for testing with a company. Hopefully they'll confirm that it works okay soon and I'll therefore be able to release it soon.

One of the main changes in the new version is a rewrite of the docs and example rewrite rules.

I can send you a copy for you to test yourself if you like, the new rewrite rule info may help you sort out the problem you are having.

If you'd like me to do that please e-mail me through our website.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Hi Conor
I have installed the mod on zen 1.3.7.1 as this is what I have been looking for, for a long time and didn't fancy any of the other mods like ultimate seo etc.

I'm glad you like it! :)

but as you can see, it still shows the cpath id

That means that you are either: using a version older than 3.0.2 or that you are linking your products into these categories instead of them actually being in those categories.

You must have the products directly in the categories and not linked, otherwise the cPath has to be appended as Zen Cart requires it to maintain context on the site.

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[AfterHouR]

Hi Conor

Thanks for the fast response :)

I am using the latest version of your mod.. the problem was, I do have a lot of linked products in various categories..

I have deleted the copy and now duplicated it in the alternate category..

so they now both read

http://www.allgoodideas.co.uk/Hiking...h_Hiking_Staff

and

http://www.allgoodideas.co.uk/Econom...h_Hiking_Staff

How cool is that :)

I know I have alot of editing, deleteing and duplicating to do now but hey, it's worth it!!!

Thank you so much

Regards
AfterHouR
http://www.allgoodideas.co.uk
Collectable walking sticks and canes for the discerning customer

[conor]

Hi,

Thanks for the fast response :)

No problem. ;)

How cool is that :)

Umm? Very? :)

Glad you like the module.. keep an eye out for a slightly updated version soon.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[miskein]

Hi Conor,

I have a couple of primitive questions.

No matter if it auto-maps or I enter some name, with or without htaccess it will always hit 404.

I'm trying to set up some SEO URL's already for 3 days now but none worked so far. Now I'm trying yours. My dev site is in a subfolder of another site that also has it's htaccess and rewrite. That might be effecting this one. Is that possible?

Is it not a problem that they don't have any suffixes like html, php? They look very unusual for me.

What about multilingual sites? I can probably enter the age names in different languages but I don't know what is supposed to happen when somebody clicks the flags.

And one more the, the EZ pages are not working out too well. One of them becomes my homepage when I turn on the modul. If I rename it it becomes something like this: blabla?&chapter=10 and hits 404?

[conor]

Hi,

No matter if it auto-maps or I enter some name, with or without htaccess it will always hit 404.

I'm afraid that's a very ambiguous question, consequently I have no idea what the problem would be.

I'm trying to set up some SEO URL's already for 3 days now but none worked so far. Now I'm trying yours. My dev site is in a subfolder of another site that also has it's htaccess and rewrite. That might be effecting this one. Is that possible?

It absolutely is possible, but again it's hard to tell without actually looking at the specific htaccess files and file structure for your server.

Is it not a problem that they don't have any suffixes like html, php? They look very unusual for me.

No, it's not a problem. Actually it is highly advised by the creator of the web himself, Tim Berners Lee, that web address don't have a suffix/file extension as technologies change over time. Keeping the URIs "clean" and readable lends to them being relevant for much longer periods of time.

What about multilingual sites? I can probably enter the age names in different languages but I don't know what is supposed to happen when somebody clicks the flags.

I'm afraid that's nothing to do with the module but something you should ask in another forum/thread on this site.

And one more the, the EZ pages are not working out too well. One of them becomes my homepage when I turn on the modul. If I rename it it becomes something like this: blabla?&chapter=10 and hits 404?

As above, it appears that you do indeed have something wrong with your file structure/.htaccess set up.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon