Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

[conor]

Hi,

For those interested in creating a new Product Type, I used a mixture of following the instructions on here: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Product_Types and by looking at the Music Type databases.

Argh, I wish I'd seen your original post sooner, could've saved you time and effort, but have only just got it as well as this one now.

Lol I'm glad you've got things working but we've had 4.2.0 ready for release for a few weeks (some private clients have been using it for a few months!) and the first entry in the Revision History is as follows:

[ADDED] List of product pages is now maintained in a its own data file in the includes/extra_datafiles folder, making it easy to add support for additional product page types.

Ah well, that's the OS/GPL way, other things get in the way of releases.

At least when 4.2.0 is officially released you can upgrade knowing that you don't have to go through the above effort again (although thankfully as you've seen, it's not much effort to do what you wanted).

Good job on the changes but hopefully others will see this message and not have to put in the same effort!

Hopefully the new version will get released this week, start of next week at very latest.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

many thanks for your great mod! really.
we are using 4.08 on 1.39h with multi-languages. so the problem is that,
how to set the rewirte rules in .htaccess file for sub-folder installation?

as we want to use www.aaa.com(installed in root folder) for english, and www.aaa.com/sub-folder/ for french

appreciated again

Glad you like the software.

I'm not entirely clear on what it is you want to do.. do you have two stores, one for each language, or simply one store with two different languages?

If it is the latter, then you simply adjust the URIs as you enter them for the categories/products. E.g., for products, simply add "/sub-folder/" to the start of the "French" URI Mapping for each product/category etc. (I like to have site.com/fr/xxxxx for example, that's how our aarck/aawe software works and is how all language sites should work in my opinion).

If your question is about the former, then you can simply have a rewrite rule for each store in the root's .htaccess file, but add an exclusion for the /sub-folder/ to the first rewrite rule so that it "falls over" to the second rule. Or you can make sure the first rule only applies for the second, sub-folder (French) store and "falls back" to the first rule for the root/English language store.

Certainly, I can say that what you want to do in supporting multiple languages is indeed doable with the software (a fact which is one of the software's strengths!).

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

If I disable your mod via configuration do I need to remove anything fro m my .htaccess file

No, but you can indeed just remove the rewrite rule from it if the module isn't being used.

as when I create a new sitemap.xml it comes back as a blank file.
Thank you in advance.

A blank page is nothing to do with Ceon URI Mapping, but must be a problem with your installation of the Sitemap module. Check the "cache" folder for your store for myDebug files.. they'll probably exist and list a PHP error to do with a mistaken installation (missing file or something?) of the Sitemap module.

Unfortunately I'll have to refer you to the thread for that module for further help with this. Hopefully though, that's enough information for you to get this fixed!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your answer. I think i was a bit paranoid when moving servers!

That's easy to understand. :)

Sorry for the late reply but only just found it although i asked for immediate email update.

No problem, glad you're happy enough now! :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

This results in http://www.example.com/category/prod...?reviews_id=11 being submitted to google (via sitemapxml) as the review URL, that page then lists http://www.example.com/category/product/review as the correct url (via canonical), which then in turn forwards to http://www.example.com/category/product/reviews - confusing, I know!

That is very confusing!

Please get in contact privately to explain it more/possibly give me access to test this on your site for you. I've not come across this issue before.

Thanks,

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the great module and the step by step installation directions.

Glad you like it and appreciate the effort put into the installation instructions, they alone took over a week so it's nice they're appreciated! :)

I have one problem, after I started going through each category and product and clicking the "automatically generate," the pictures of the items in those particular categories disappear!

This is caused when the template used breaks the "base href" functionality that working templates have. It basically means the category/product pages are currently broken, in that they can't support static URIs, they are building relative URIs for the images, which then breaks them.

It should be easy enough to fix, just make sure a base href element is present in the template header file.

And no matter what categories I click on in the home page, it just lead to the home page. Can you help me please? Thanks!

I'm afraid I don't know specifically what is causing that but it is indeed likely to be an error on your [template's] part. Again, check how the URIs are being built by it, make sure all are using the zen_href_link function.

Hope that's some sort of help!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[picandnix]

Hi,



No, but you can indeed just remove the rewrite rule from it if the module isn't being used.



A blank page is nothing to do with Ceon URI Mapping, but must be a problem with your installation of the Sitemap module. Check the "cache" folder for your store for myDebug files.. they'll probably exist and list a PHP error to do with a mistaken installation (missing file or something?) of the Sitemap module.

Unfortunately I'll have to refer you to the thread for that module for further help with this. Hopefully though, that's enough information for you to get this fixed!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Sorry Conor, I mean that the actual sitemap is empty. But sitemap generates fine when URI its set to on. That's why I wondered if it is related maybe to the htaccess?

[conor]

Hi,

Sorry Conor, I mean that the actual sitemap is empty. But sitemap generates fine when URI its set to on. That's why I wondered if it is related maybe to the htaccess?

I don't use the sitemap module so I don't know why it would be empty. It cannot have anything to do with Ceon URI Mapping or .htaccess files though. I'd suggest contacting the author of that module.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[picandnix]

Hi,



I don't use the sitemap module so I don't know why it would be empty. It cannot have anything to do with Ceon URI Mapping or .htaccess files though. I'd suggest contacting the author of that module.


All the best..

Conor
ceon

Will do, thank you Conor.

[conor]

Hi,

Will do, thank you Conor.

Sorry that I can't provide a direct solution! Hope you get this sorted soon.

All the best...

Conor
ceon