Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

And to ceon, you wrote: Check you've put a proper rewrite rule in place that isn't blocking URIs with extensions.

Yes i took the rewrite rule from the sample folder, i think its okay, because everything works good except the images are not showing.

Then your problem isn't Ceon URI Mapping but something else you have in your .htaccess file.

Or else your template doesn't have the base href set properly or something like that.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[melirlbr]

Thanks ceon

[Streaming]

I know you're not a fan of Google Checkout from reading earlier in this thread but it has worked fine for me up until now, where I'm now getting communication errors.
I have my .htaccess set as below. Does this look correct?

RewriteEngine On

# ONLY rewrite URIs beginning with /store/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/store/ [NC]
# Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-z]{2,5}$ [NC]
# Don't rewrite admin directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/c83vm7g58pwh2sk [NC]
# Don't rewrite googlecheckout directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/googlecheckout [NC]
# Don't rewrite editors directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors [NC]
# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/frontend [NC]
# Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (index.php)
RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]

[Yolanda]

I've installed the module and it looks good. However, I've noticed that once a product is 'added to cart' and then shows up linked in the cart, the path is looooong... It has the newly mapped uri I specified ANHD then a long product number and assorted characters... Also in the 'View Shopping' cart sidebar. If I click on the product coming out of the Categories, it shows the correct shorter, readable path I gave it.

Did I do something wrong in my install? Running 1.3.8a. This is a downloadable music store (to be.. that is.. only a few downloads in there sofar)
Thanks for your help.
Yolanda

[Yolanda]

Let me just restate this problem in case I wasn't clear: I set uri's for categories and products, which work fine. But.. when an item is added to the shopping cart and I click that highlighted item in the shopping cart, it now shows 1) the new uri I did and.. 2) a hugely long product number and ids.... What did I miss? Can someone help me identifying this problem>

Thanks for a great mod though.
Yolanda
store is in my sig

[conor]

Hi,

Let me just restate this problem in case I wasn't clear: I set uri's for categories and products, which work fine. But.. when an item is added to the shopping cart and I click that highlighted item in the shopping cart, it now shows 1) the new uri I did and.. 2) a hugely long product number and ids.... What did I miss? Can someone help me identifying this problem>

The "extra info" appended to the URI upon clicking a link in the shopping cart is the information added by Zen Cart for the selected attributes for the product.. if that was removed then when someone clicked on a product in the shopping cart, the product page would be displayed with only the default values selected, not the actual selections made by the customer.

So this is desired behaviour that should be left as it is.

Regardless, the canonical URI for the product's page will be the short one you generated for it.

Hope that sets your mind at ease.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

I know you're not a fan of Google Checkout from reading earlier in this thread

Yes, I'm not a fan of any badly written software.

it has worked fine for me up until now, where I'm now getting communication errors.
I have my .htaccess set as below. Does this look correct?

I've a feeling that you'd have to add exclusions for the Google Checkout module's files in Modules - Ceon URI Mapping (SEO) Config.

This is covered in the section of the documentation about adding exclusions.

I just downloaded the module and searching for application_top I see that you should probably add the following to the list of exclusions:

/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

Maybe the following two as well:

/googlecheckout/shipping_generator/shipping_method_generator.php

/googlecheckout/shipping_metrics/shipping_metrics_commandline.php

(Separate each additional exclusion with a comma.)

Enjoy your new URIs.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[Yolanda]

Thank you for the reply. Mmmhhh... that creates a page then that has a really unsightly url now. Mine AND about 2 dozen numbers. Wonder if I could de-activate those links in the shopping cart. Gotta look into that. I don't think I want those huge urls now... besides, it creates dup content..

Another issue if you don't mind: My preview audio player is Wimpy and the clips it uses are stored in the media folder. They don't play any longer and I believe it is due to the htaccess file I added to the root folder of the site... That I need fixed asap... if you could give me some advice that would be supa!

Yolanda

[DivaVocals]

Thank you for the reply. Mmmhhh... that creates a page then that has a really unsightly url now. Mine AND about 2 dozen numbers. Wonder if I could de-activate those links in the shopping cart. Gotta look into that. I don't think I want those huge urls now... besides, it creates dup content..

Actually this is not true.. Re-read Conor's post.. The extra data added is to make it EASIER for shopper who wish to return to the product page perhaps because they wanted to add an additional quantity to the cart or change a color.. None of this behavior creates duplicate content as these links are only valid for this customer for this order during this session and for that reason the search engines are not going to find these links.. Hence NO DUPLICATE CONTENT..

Edited to add.. what Conor said below..

[conor]

Hi,

Thank you for the reply. Mmmhhh... that creates a page then that has a really unsightly url now. Mine AND about 2 dozen numbers. Wonder if I could de-activate those links in the shopping cart. Gotta look into that. I don't think I want those huge urls now... besides, it creates dup content..

It doesn't create duplicate content.. that's what I was talking about in the last post about canonical URIs.

For example, clicking back to the product page from the cart brings up this URI with the attribute info:

http://music.shredmistress.net/femal...8ef4e1e2b62225

But the canonical URI in the source is:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://music.shredmistress.net/female-transgendered-band-glamazon-download-holywar">

Another issue if you don't mind: My preview audio player is Wimpy and the clips it uses are stored in the media folder. They don't play any longer and I believe it is due to the htaccess file I added to the root folder of the site... That I need fixed asap... if you could give me some advice that would be supa!

Sorry I don't know anything about this player. I can't help you with it.

All the best...

Conor
ceon