Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

[rafcamera]

Hi, Conor!
I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name). But I have one issue:
I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.
So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?
I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

[conor]

Hi Rafael,

I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name).

I'm glad you like it! :)

I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.

Yes, I've seen that before, that's not much fun to have to do!

Since those URIs have IDs in them you can always write a script to parse the URIs and create historical URIs for them, so they redirect to whatever you have defined as the current Ceon URI Mapping.

So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?

I'm not allowed to talk about other software here I'm afraid.

I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

I can understand that!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi Nicholas,

It's been a while since I installed this - just because I haven't need to. Just wanted to say how impressed I was with the work you have done.

Thanks very much for the nice comments, they help to make all the time spent on the software worthwhile!

A lot of nice touches, like the auto-creation of the htaccess file that has the exclusions of other folders built in. Cool.

I'm glad you like that.. current versions mess up when a directory has a space in its name. 4.0.8 has a fix for this and shall be out shortly.

A small donation for a pint or two should be with you.
Very impressed as always

Wow, thanks, it's very rare to receive anything, thanks very much for that! :)

Have a nice weekend!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[niccol]

Well, as I say, it has been a while since I used this on an install. It worked pretty well previously and I have always thought it was the most complete of the bunch of re-writing mods.

It is just nice to pick it up again and see how much work you continue to put into it. There are lots of nice features in there.

[countrycharm]

Hi, Conor!
I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name). But I have one issue:
I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.
So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?
I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

For all products at once auto feature Conor cannot answer this question here on this support forum as the rules of this forum prohibit the support or discussion of paid modules on the part of the module creator. The particular module you speak of will be a commercial module, and if you want more information on it, you will need to contact Conor via e-mail. (use the contact form on the Ceon website)

[DivaVocals]

Well, as I say, it has been a while since I used this on an install. It worked pretty well previously and I have always thought it was the most complete of the bunch of re-writing mods.

It is just nice to pick it up again and see how much work you continue to put into it. There are lots of nice features in there.

Most complete and BEST supported.. Unlike the "others".. (yep I said it in my outdoor voice)

[DivaVocals]

Yep Ceon's Mapping manager is AWESOME!!! Worth the money!!! I am converting a client from a WordPress shop to Zen Cart and I was able to recreate all the old shop URLs and re-direct them to their new Zen Cart equivalents.. Tre cool!!! Conor rocks like Led Zepplin!!!!

Hi, Conor!
I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name). But I have one issue:
I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.
So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?
I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

For all products at once auto feature Conor cannot answer this question here on this support forum as the rules of this forum prohibit the support or discussion of paid modules on the part of the module creator. The particular module you speak of will be a commercial module, and if you want more information on it, you will need to contact Conor via e-mail. (use the contact form on the Ceon website)

[rafcamera]

I know about this module, but it will not solve my problem. I don't need just auto built URI's. I need to match any new URI with old URI, especially if it is linked from some forum, blog or any other than search engine source (SE links will be rebuilt over time, but I just can't track all other links and force people to change them).
So, if only way is writing of .htaccess 301 redirect rule for all pages (more that 1000), it will be nightmare and unreasonably large .htaccess file. That is why I want to know if there is more smart way to keep old links working. If not, I'll rather stay with old mod.
Thanks.

[DivaVocals]

I know about this module, but it will not solve my problem. I don't need just auto built URI's. I need to match any new URI with old URI, especially if it is linked from some forum, blog or any other than search engine source (SE links will be rebuilt over time, but I just can't track all other links and force people to change them).
So, if only way is writing of .htaccess 301 redirect rule for all pages (more that 1000), it will be nightmare and unreasonably large .htaccess file. That is why I want to know if there is more smart way to keep old links working. If not, I'll rather stay with old mod.
Thanks.

We all understood what you are saying and we are saying that the module which we cannot speak of here solves this issue for you..

Also you know that Google's webmaster tools can provide you a list of internal and external links associated with your site.. You can easily export this list to a CSV file.. Since all the URI's for this mod are stored in the database, you can easily take this list and build out the mapping records to map from the old URIs to the new without creating a .htaccess 301 redirect rule for all pages..

[rafcamera]

This makes sense, thank :-) Will rethink once again :-)