Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

[fakeDecoy]

Also, I don't see anything in the docs about upgrading from 3.6.3. Is there anything I should be aware of to avoid screwing up my store or losing all my existing URI mappings?

[conor]

Hi,

How are you?

It's been a while!

The "External link URL" doesn't work in my ezpages. I have it defined but the site is just displaying my blank ezpage without redirecting.

EZ-Page external and internal URIs are not compatible with a site using static URIs. THey are old kludges for Zen Cart's dynamic URI functionality.

You should instead simply use appropriate URIs/redirects.

As for upgrading.. full instructions are included with every version, for every previous version.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[fakeDecoy]

Thanks for the quick reply! Your mod is generally working fantastically. I wish the zc team would get with the times and make this a core functionality. From my results, and from examining my competitors, it appears that friendly URLs help organic keyword rankings a ton.

Do you mean adding redirects to htaccess?

Finally found the upgrade instructions. Didn't see it before.

[conor]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply! Your mod is generally working fantastically.

I hope it's more than "generally" ;)

I wish the zc team would get with the times and make this a core functionality.

Choice is good too.. but obviously you won't find me disagreeing which one is best. :)

From my results, and from examining my competitors, it appears that friendly URLs help organic keyword rankings a ton.

The main thing by far is content, there's no point having any URI at all without good content.

However, on two sites with the exact same content, static URIs have been proven to raise rankings. Which of course makes sense as keywords in URIs are useful information.

The primary reason for this module still remains easy to read, remember and type URIs but the SEO benefits are a nice bonus.

Do you mean adding redirects to htaccess?

It depends what you want to do exacly. You can add Rewrite Rules to the .htaccess file.

You can also have Ceon URI Mapping redirect to an "Alternate URI".. that requires modifying the database record manually, using software such as PHPMyAdmin.

Just enter the URI you want to direct to in the "alternate_uri" field for the EZ-Page and a redirection code, like 301.

Hope that helps!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[AtomicWorkshop]

Hello,

I've installed the Ceon URI Mapping mod and it appears to function as intended except:

my zencart installation is sitting in a directory named catalog:

www.example.co.uk/catalog/

I would have expected I could map the "catalog" out to leave:

www.example.co.uk/
and
www.example.co.uk/cat1/subcat1
etc

But I only seem to be able to get it working with "catalog" still there - the auto-generated mapping for a category inserts "/catalog/cat1"

Am I expecting too much or have I made a gross error??

Many thanks in advance,

Jonathan

[conor]

Hi,

But I only seem to be able to get it working with "catalog" still there - the auto-generated mapping for a category inserts "/catalog/cat1"

The auto-generation with the standard edition does indeed always include the value for DIR_WS_CATALOG.

If you don't want to have /catalog at the start you will have to manually enter URIs.

On the product pages you can click "preview" then copy the part of the auto-generated URI you want, go back, paste it in and then untick auto-generate, then click "preview" and "update".

For all other URIs you'll either have to auto-generate them and then go back and edit them or enter the URI you want in the first place.

Alternatively, you could move the store from "/catalog" to /.. an easy change in the configure.php files (although this will break any current links to the site of course).

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[AtomicWorkshop]

If you don't want to have /catalog at the start you will have to manually enter URIs.

Thanks for extremely quick response!

I don't have a problem manually entering the URI's, but when I do that i.e.change
/catalog/cat1
to
/cat1
I get a...
Not Found

The requested URL /collection was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

so I think I'm missing something else...additionally, my home page still displays as www.example.co.uk/catalog

Thanks in advance!


Jonathan

[conor]

Hi,

The requested URL /collection was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

You really shouldn't use /catalog in my opinion, but if you want to persevere with that, then you need to make sure the rewrite rule isn't applying only for /catalog as it will by standard, giving you the 404s you are seeing (adjust the rule to not "only rewrite the /catalog dir").

additionally, my home page still displays as www.example.co.uk/catalog

It always will. That, you can't change with the way you have set things up. You are choosing to have it as /catalog.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[harddrive]

OK Im lost here, I got it all working fine except it wants the address to have a capital in the Cart ... example...

the way its supposed to be

http://c51creations.com/cart/test

the only way it works

http://c51creations.com/Cart/Test

now I did change the make all capital so the Test could be test not the issue... the issue is the Cart that one is cart

I cant seem to find anywhere that anyone else has this issue and Ive gone over everything I can think of, please help

[conor]

Hi,

I cant seem to find anywhere that anyone else has this issue and Ive gone over everything I can think of, please help

That's because I don't think anyone has ever had the problem before!

Send me admin and FTP details for your site and I'll take a look when I get a chance, to see what you've done wrong. You at the very least have messed up your configure.php file.

All the best..

Conor
ceon