Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[neekfenwick]

Goodness folks, these free mods are supported by folks on their time and their dime.. NO ONE is gonna write a free mod that covers EVERY SINGLE Zen Cart configuration out there..

Wow, who got sand in your vagina? I wasn't complaining, I was commenting on some broken behaviour I thought I had found, and suggested a fix. I feel that it's useful to bring these experiences to Conor's attention, as the author of the mod. Please chill out and stop shouting. By the way, I'm about to donate, I don't want him to do this great work for free.

Hi Nick,
No, they don't.. by default the "example" rule just excludes files with a textual extension: .jpg, jpeg, .html, .shtml, .png, .pdf etc.

This is because most people don't have numbers in their file extensions, whereas some people might have a dot and a combination of numbers and letters in their URI, e.g.

/widgets/large-widget-10.3mm

You're absolutely right :) I ran into this myself, we have a product which results in "round-island-60cm-cooker-hood-with-led-mood-lighting-a94.6s" and of course my suggested rewrite rule breaks for that. I'll stick with my custom hack for mp4 files. I haven't looked closely at the "Excluded files" option in the config to see if this could be used for the same purpose, though I guess that would incur more processing overhead than the very lightweight mod_rewrite rule exclusion.

I've also just written my own bulk importer for the ceon_uri_mappings table.. 110 lines of php saved me sorting out 887 lines of data manually, while your Mappings Manager isn't available. Thanks for writing ceon_uri_mapping_autogen_category_or_product_uri() in such an easy-to-call way :)