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

[lhungil]

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I have numinix Ajax fec checkout installed with ultimate seo urls and stumbled into a new issue.

If i enable automatic redirects in admin, the Ajax shopping cart process fails with "sorry your session has expired". It works fine of i disable this.

Also if I remove "index" from the list of pages to rewrite this works fine but obviously lots of pages such as categories won't be redirected ( i need redirects working as old urls are indexed in google)

pages effected:
"https://www.example.co.uk/index.php?main_page=quick_checkout"

Is there a way of overiding rewriting of ultimate for all secure pages? or just this page that is effected?
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What version of Zen Cart and Ultimate SEO URLs are you experiencing this issue under?
Where during the checkout process is it bringing this up? Is it with a specific payment method?
What URLs are being called via AJAX by the Numinex FEC module?
Can you provide a link to the site in question so we can see exactly what is occurring?
Can you also PM a dummy customer account I can test with?

POST data will be lost if a redirect occurs. The current version of Ultimate SEO URLs does not issue a 301 redirect for any page where "POST" data is present (for security POST should always be used with form submissions during checkout).

The current version of Ultimate SEO URLs will also not rewrite pages not listed in "pages to rewrite" (unless you cleared the default list). If you cleared the list, please add back the pages you want rewritten. If you added "quick_checkout", just remove it from the list. The variable found in "main_page=" is the name of the Zen Cart "page".

You say removing "index" from the list of pages to rewrite fixes your issues? This is rather strange, as "index" refers to category pages (category_list and product_list) and the main page... Not checkout pages... Does FEC modify category pages?

[tracstev]

Hi

Many thanks for your reply. The site is in development at the moment, it's running the latest version of zencart 1.5.1 and Ultimate URLS. The error is ocurring after creating the customer account and selecting a delivery method or updating the coupon code - deleting items from the cart and selecting a payment type is fine.

This is a the development site with the issue 213.175.206.13

The fec links are 213.175.206.13/index.php?main_page=quick_checkout and 213.175.206.13/index.php?main_page=quick_checkout

Feel free to create a user and test it perhaps call the customer "lhungil" so i know it's you.

Many thanks for your help

[kobra]

Tried this in PCRE filter
motorcycle/atv=>motorcycle atv

Getting this

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier 'a' in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/catalog/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 795

[deadeye]

Which version of the .htaccess should be used? I'd found a version in this thread that is much more elaborate than the sample one included with the latest version available in the plugins section.

[lhungil]

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This is a the development site with the issue 213.175.206.13

Looking at your site, "Ultimate SEO URLs" is not generating redirects. The redirects during checkout are being generated by the "AJAX FEC" module.

The AJAX portion of FEC is redirecting to "/" when doing a "login_check". This script is being called by "AJAX FEC" when submitting a GV / Coupon Code. I am not sure how exactly this script is attempting to validate the login, but something here seems strange. You will want take a closer look at the scripts in /ajax/ to see what they are attempting. Everything other than the GV section (using AJAX) appeared to work for me. I did notice the checkout confirmation was extremely slow (timed out in IE, went through in FF)... As "AJAX FEC" is a commercial module (and I do not own a copy), you may want to ask for support from Numinex (on forums, or paid installation).

[deadeye]

Also...is there any recommendations on 'full vs short' regarding seo rankings...which would google/bing/etc prefer? Thanks!

[lhungil]

Tried this in PCRE filter
motorcycle/atv=>motorcycle atv

Getting this

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier 'a' in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/catalog/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 795

My bad, the "/" needs to be escaped as it is used as the delimiter for preg_replace. Try "motorcycle\\/atv=>motorcycle atv" (yes double escaped) and then reset the URL cache.

[lhungil]

Which version of the .htaccess should be used? I'd found a version in this thread that is much more elaborate than the sample one included with the latest version available in the plugins section.

Use the one which ships with the current version. The one posted earlier in the forums is older (was a fix for a specific older version).

Also...is there any recommendations on 'full vs short' regarding seo rankings...which would google/bing/etc prefer? Thanks!

"Ultimate SEO URLs" adds the category / product / ez-page names to the URL (and they are also used as h1 tags in most templates). So basically it adds what some would call "keywords" to the URLs. Depending on the names you used, your industry, your perspective customers, and many other factors you might be better off with one format of another... So no "this format is better for seo" answer exists :)

The URL is a currently very minor factor in the grand scheme of things. There are other places you would be better off spending your time (and money) when it comes to SEO. Take a look at the top two results in Google for SEO: http://searchengineland.com/guide/what-is-seo and http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo If you wish to further discuss SEO topics on the forums (I would highly recommend doing research other places as well), please discuss them in the Search Engines section of the forums.

[kobra]

No joy using motorcycle\\/atv=>motorcycle atv in Enter PCRE filter rules for generated URLs
as I still get this

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier 'a' in /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/catalog/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 795

Version = 2.212

[lhungil]

No joy using motorcycle\\/atv=>motorcycle atv in Enter PCRE filter rules for generated URLs
as I still get this

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier 'a' in /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/catalog/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 795

Version = 2.212

The search and replace is case sensitive. Are there any capital letters in the product name?

Does your server have magic_quotes_gpc or magic_quotes_runtime enabled? You can either check "Admin -> Version" to see the output of phpinfo or try entering "motorcycle\/atv=>motorcycle atv" (if this works one of them is enabled). If enabled, you may want to ask your provider to turn them off as they can cause issues (especially as the world moves to PHP 5.4).