Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

[lidlchris]

**sigh** this question was JUST asked and ANSWERED in the posts RIGHT above yours..

apologies - didn't see that and must have searched for the wrong thing cause nothing came up..

[DivaVocals]

apologies - didn't see that and must have searched for the wrong thing cause nothing came up..

No worries.. glad you saw the answer.. If you don't want the AddThis analytics tracking log into your AddThis account and turn it off.. Though you might find the information very useful..

[simon1066]

This is a bit of a strange one, I know

Say I currently have two categories named 'United States' and 'United Kingdom' with some products duplicated in each category.

Using the Multisite add-on, and plenty of geo-targeting these products are then served to their respective countries' sub-domains.

Currently, only one country uses ceon mapping uri's with the other countries' duplicate products keeping the default zen url, like

us.mydomain.com/product1-url
gb.mydomain.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1111&products_id=2222

I'm toying with the idea of getting the duplicates in both countries to have the same uri mapping, like

us.mydomain.com/product1-url
gb.mydomain.com/product1-url

It IS possible to create duplicate uri's in the database but doing that 'breaks' both products = 'product not found"

No doubt CEON mapping is doing its best to resist these duplicate uri's but I wondered whether there was a way to successfully have two products with the same uri mapping?

[simon1066]

A bit of digging and I see there's an $avoid_duplicates parameter that can be disabled, a good enough place to start some more digging.

[simon1066]

Amazing what making a few posts will do to focus the mind.

Managed to successfully disable duplicates - now off to do testing, testing and more testing.

[pinksparklegirl]

Hi, I'm having trouble with updating the URI's of my EZ-Pages (categories and products work fine). I've followed the instructions given to do this, but all EZ-pages are still using their original addresses. All but one are standard Zen Cart pages.

The links are used in the header, footer and sidebox of my shop here www.powdermonki.co.uk - none of the links within these three sections are hard-coded. I've searched for help within this thread but haven't found a suitable reply.

Also, can anyone tell me how to update the standard Zen Cart pages (shopping cart, shipping, account etc.)? Again, I haven't found any clear instructions.

Thanks for any advice,
Sarah

[DivaVocals]

Hi, I'm having trouble with updating the URI's of my EZ-Pages (categories and products work fine). I've followed the instructions given to do this, but all EZ-pages are still using their original addresses. All but one are standard Zen Cart pages.

The links are used in the header, footer and sidebox of my shop here www.powdermonki.co.uk - none of the links within these three sections are hard-coded. I've searched for help within this thread but haven't found a suitable reply.

Sorry it's hard to tell which links you are specifically referring to, but in general the issue you describe would tend to indicate that your template is not using the right coding for links.

Also, can anyone tell me how to update the standard Zen Cart pages (shopping cart, shipping, account etc.)? Again, I haven't found any clear instructions.

There are instructions in the configuration section of the readme that comes with this module which explains how to create URI's for other Zen Cart pages. The section in FAQs is headed: Specifying the current URI Mapping for any other Zen Cart page. The section in Features is headed: Ability to use Static URIs for any Zen Cart page

Both sections should give you a good idea of what is needed to add URIs for other pages.. If it isn't clear for you what to do, please help the community to help you by letting us know what part is unclear for you..

[DivaVocals]

Sorry it's hard to tell which links you are specifically referring to, but in general the issue you describe would tend to indicate that your template is not using the right coding for links.

Hint to what might be at issue in your template:

Hi,



You obviously have a custom template and have hard coding inside it, setting the links to

index.php?main_page=products_new

instead of using something like (must be output using PHP):

zen_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_NEW) 

So this is a problem you need to fix where you have hard codings in your template.

The reason the link changes from the dynamic one you see when you hover over the link to the static URI is that Ceon URI Mapping smartly redirects from the dynamic link to the static one.

That's you sorted then!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

and then there's this:

I'm afraid all I can say is that you should check out what way the Sitemap XML module is calling zen_href_link()... Ceon URI Mapping will always return the static URI if that function is called with the correct parameters.

The point is, this issue is likely to be traced to your template.. If it isn't properly coded to retrieve links using the zen_href_link() function, that would be the cause of your issue.. and the EASY way to verify what I am saying is the truth is to change your template to the classic template and see if the issue persists.. (My guess is that it won't)

[GodfatherAntiques]

Hello fellow Zen Cart users i'm having a bit of a problem figuring out why my product rewrite keeps sending me to my homepage and not to the new product url. I have installed all the files correctly as i'm not getting any errors in installation check. This is the link of the current product that has the url rewrite http://qualityautowi.com//index.php?...&products_id=9 and it should say http://qualityautowi.com//Cars/2005-Toyota-Camry-XLE, but when you go to that link it takes me back to my homepage. I'm not sure why this is happening. I have checked my config file and not seeing any problem's. Also tried both .index and /.index in .htaccess file. My hosting does support url rewrite. I think Zen Lightbox maybe causing the problem, but i'm not sure. I hope someone can help me solve this problem. Thank you

[DivaVocals]

Hello fellow Zen Cart users i'm having a bit of a problem figuring out why my product rewrite keeps sending me to my homepage and not to the new product url. I have installed all the files correctly as i'm not getting any errors in installation check. This is the link of the current product that has the url rewrite http://qualityautowi.com//index.php?...&products_id=9 and it should say http://qualityautowi.com//Cars/2005-Toyota-Camry-XLE, but when you go to that link it takes me back to my homepage. I'm not sure why this is happening. I have checked my config file and not seeing any problem's. Also tried both .index and /.index in .htaccess file. My hosting does support url rewrite. I think Zen Lightbox maybe causing the problem, but i'm not sure. I hope someone can help me solve this problem. Thank you

Not sure why you think Zen Lightbox would create an issue with a re=write module (there's no relation between these modules), but I and many others have used Zen Lightbox with this module and have had no issues.. So the issues you are having is somewhere else in your site setup, and I would start by looking at your configure.php file. the double slashes in your URLs are indicative of incorrect values in your configure.php.. Once you resolve that issue (which is not related to this module as it is a Zen Cart setup issue you have), double check your install and make sure you haven't left out any required files..