Ultimate SEO v3 (and v2.200) [Support Thread]

[coucho]

I installed this mod on my v150 a couple of days ago and have a couple of issues now. The install went great and it is working but now when I click on the contact us tab or the links in the footer menu except useful links it comes back with a 404 error along with the site map. Checked with my hosting company and they could not find the problem. These links were working before I installed this mod. Any ideas or questions?

Thanks,
Coucho

[curlydan]

I installed this mod on my v150 a couple of days ago and have a couple of issues now. The install went great and it is working but now when I click on the contact us tab or the links in the footer menu except useful links it comes back with a 404 error along with the site map. Checked with my hosting company and they could not find the problem. These links were working before I installed this mod. Any ideas or questions?

Thanks,
Coucho

This is a general question, I was looking through the instructions and have no difficulty with any of the steps except step #3.

3. A sample .htaccess file is included. Edit
"3_htaccess/.htaccess" to match your web server's
environment. Pay particular attention to the
"RewriteBase" line. Make sure your server does not have
"MultiViews" enabled (rare).

If you have an existing .htaccess file in the folder
where you installed Zen Cart merge the new .htaccess
file with the existing file (remember rules are matched
in order, so any custom URL transformations or
redirects should appear before the "Start Ultimate
SEO URLs" block. Upload the .htaccess file to the
folder where you installed Zen Cart.


I have no idea what any of this means. More specifically, Can someone please explain in simpler terms for me. I have opened the "3_htaccess" file and it is empty... How do I make this match my web servers environment? What is a rewrite base line? How can I check if I have multiviews enabled?

Thanks.

[lhungil]

... when I click on the contact us tab or the links in the footer menu except useful links it comes back with a 404 error ...

Hard to say without further information. What is the address the contact us tab points to? What version of "Ultimate SEO URLs" was installed? What do you have in your .htaccess file? Can you give us a link to the website where this error is being experienced?

[lhungil]

I have opened the "3_htaccess" file and it is empty...

The folder is not empty it contains a file named ".htaccess". If you are on an apple computer or linux computer you need to have "show files starting with a dot" enabled. By default these files are hidden on *nix and apple based computers.

How do I make this match my web servers environment?

Depends on your environment. For most *nix based operating systems (running Apache2) all you need to do is update the RewriteBase directive. For windows based environments you need to use an ISAPI .htaccess filter or convert the rules to a web.config for IIS7+.

How can I check if I have multiviews enabled?

This is rare for most hosting providers to enable by default. You can ask your provider if you run into problems.

[curlydan]

The folder is not empty it contains a file named ".htaccess". If you are on an apple computer or linux computer you need to have "show files starting with a dot" enabled. By default these files are hidden on *nix and apple based computers.


Depends on your environment. For most *nix based operating systems (running Apache2) all you need to do is update the RewriteBase directive. For windows based environments you need to use an ISAPI .htaccess filter or convert the rules to a web.config for IIS7+.


This is rare for most hosting providers to enable by default. You can ask your provider if you run into problems.

Originally Posted by curlydan
I have opened the "3_htaccess" file and it is empty...
The folder is not empty it contains a file named ".htaccess". If you are on an apple computer or linux computer you need to have "show files starting with a dot" enabled. By default these files are hidden on *nix and apple based computers.

Originally Posted by curlydan
How do I make this match my web servers environment?
Depends on your environment. For most *nix based operating systems (running Apache2) all you need to do is update the RewriteBase directive. For windows based environments you need to use an ISAPI .htaccess filter or convert the rules to a web.config for IIS7+.




Thanks for your response. It was very detailed. I will look in to how to show these hidden files as I am using a mac computer.

I am still unsure how to match my web servers environment. How do I find out what environment I have? That would be the first step. I have no idea what "all you need to do is update the RewriteBase directive." means. Perhaps I can ask my host company to do this? I have hostpapa account.

Lastly, I have an existing .htaccess file in the folder where you installed Zen Cart. How can I merge the new .htaccess file with the existing file? The file is dated on the day I installed my zencart so it has never been touched.

Thanks and happy holidays

[lhungil]

How do I find out what environment I have? That would be the first step.

The most important pieces of the environment you will want to know for installing this module are:
Windows or Linux hosting? (phpinfo, hosting provider)
Does the web server allow .htaccess files and RewriteEngine / RewriteRule? (phpinfo, hosting provider)
What URL do you use to access Zen Cart? (browser, phpinfo, Zen Cart configure.php)
Where is your Zen Cart installed on the server (FTP, phpinfo, Zen Cart configure.php)

When you log into the admin for Zen Cart, you can click on "version" (upper right). This will output information about Zen Cart and also the results of "phpinfo()" which contain information about your webserver's PHP environment. If you have additional questions the company hosting your website can probably give you any additional information.

I am still unsure how to match my web servers environment. I have no idea what "all you need to do is update the RewriteBase directive." means. Perhaps I can ask my host company to do this? I have hostpapa account.

This will make more sense after you configure your computer so you can look at the ".htaccess" included in the downloaded zip file. If you want, you can read more about Apache mod_rewrite. This is not typically something your hosting provider configures... but I suppose if you want you could ask.

Lastly, I have an existing .htaccess file in the folder where you installed Zen Cart. How can I merge the new .htaccess file with the existing file? The file is dated on the day I installed my zencart so it has never been touched.

Zen Cart does not ship with a .htaccess file in the installation directory. Nor does it install one in the installation directory by default. How did you install Zen Cart?

It all depends on what is in the ".htaccess" file. Basically ".htaccess" files allow one to change web server configuration options without directly editing the master or main web server configuration files. There are alot of things one can change in a .htaccess file so there is no "one size fits all". You can probably post the ".htaccess" file on here (or PM privately) for more help if needed.

Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays!

P.S. I am going to be fairly busy during the holidays, so will take awhile for me to respond.

[kenmax]

Hi I am a new user of Ultimate SEO URLs. I install it on a Zen Cart v1.5.1 and after that when I login the admin page I can only see the "Configuration" in it and all other menus are just gone. Any ideas?

[gpone12]

Hello,
I try to find a solution for link in back button, the link is to page not found (http://www.example.com/index.php?mai...page_not_found)
I use the latest version for Ultimate SEO

i use 1.51 version

How to fix this?
Any ideas.

Thanks,

George

[SPH]

Hello,
I try to find a solution for link in back button, the link is to page not found (http://www.example.com/index.php?mai...page_not_found)
I use the latest version for Ultimate SEO

i use 1.51 version

How to fix this?
Any ideas.

Thanks,

George

It would help more if you gave a link or non-linked text address to your site, so we can see what is going on.

But if you mean that your "Back Button" at the bottom of pages like Contact Us do not work, see this post:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...ix#post1156227

This post leads to another post where there is a fix that worked for me. Here is the post with the fix:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...gation-history

As I recall, I used the fix in post no. 1.

Hope it works for you.

[bobo01]

After installing this my main page does not work anymore. I had some java script on there to slide four images and to show the cookie notice for the EU. Any ideas how to fix this?