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

[muteyaar]

Hi,

I am using zen cart version 1.3.7

will this module work fine with my version?

kindly reply

[jeking]

Version: 2.105 would, but it's really time to upgrade.

[SStreich]

Is this mod suppose to also change the sitemap.xml files to friendly urls ?
I have it installed and working, it appears to working fine, but I noticed the sitemap.xml was not being changed to friendly urls. Not sure if this is an issue or something it doesn't do?

Zen V: 153 sitemapxml 3.2.12 ultimatseo 212

[lhungil]

Is this mod suppose to also change the sitemap.xml files to friendly urls ?
I have it installed and working, it appears to working fine, but I noticed the sitemap.xml was not being changed to friendly urls. Not sure if this is an issue or something it doesn't do?

Zen V: 153 sitemapxml 3.2.12 ultimatseo 212

Zen Cart internally generates URLs using the function zen_href_link. This function should be used by all code when generating URLs (however some 3rd party modules may not be properly coded to use this function). Ultimate URLs alters zen_href_link (to generate alternative "friendly" URLs).

If you are not seeing the alternative URLs, either Ultimate URLs is not properly installed -- or -- the third party module you are using to generate the "sitemap.xml" is not properly coded to use zen_href_link.

Do you have a link to your site (so we can see if the URLs are being properly generated on the various store pages)?

[SStreich]

site: www.streichs.com
sitemap is http://www.streichs.com/sitemap.xml
In Ultimate seo I had to remove a couple of the pages I am not currently using as it was throwing a error in the server logs: These are what I left intact:
index, product_info, document_general_info, document_product_info, products_new, products_all, shopping_cart, featured_products, specials, contact_us, privacy, shippinginfo, faqs_all, site_map, gv_faq, discount_coupon, page
Should I be adding the sitemap.xml to this list ?

[lhungil]

... sitemap is "www.streichs.com/sitemap.xml" ...

I am seeing the alternative URLs in the XML sitemaps found above. Did you need to do anything special? Or just install the SitemapXML plugin for Zen Cart by a_berezin?

[lhungil]

The next release of Ultimate URLs is currently awaiting some additional QA testing by the BETA testers. Once the current BETA testers have finished their own QA testing, if no major bugs are found Ultimate URLs 2.215 will be released (Zen Cart 1.3.9h, Zen Cart 1.5.0 - 1.5.4).

One of the HUGE changes in Ultimate URLs 2.215 is the installer (installs, upgrades, and removal) code now merges to the required core files programmatically; essentially removing the need for manual merging (in most hosting environments). Anyone willing to BETA test (required to provide feedback) can contact me via PM.

[michaelchu]

ZC 1.5.4
Any release date on the new version yet? I have noticed some major diff between the core files and halted the implementation. Is the current version compatible with 1.5.4?

[lhungil]

I would not recommend installing Ultimate URLs 2.212 under Zen Cart 1.5.4. While most of the code will work, some of the "automatic redirection code" if enabled may cause issues.

No release date yet for Ultimate URLs 2.215; have not heard from any of the current BETA testers yet. In their defense they are donating their time, so they may have other priorities at the moment.

[mc12345678]

Helping someone with their site. ZC 1.5.1 installed, Site was built as a rebuild from ZC 1.5.0 (database upgraded using zc_install) Zip of the store files were downloaded from the zen-cart website. Unfortunately at the moment unable to identify php version without writing a file to directly display the phpinfo, but they are receiving the following errors (1 or more type of error message displayed possibly pretty much at least once a day.

[07-Jan-2015 13:58:24] PHP Warning:  parse_url(/https://www.sitename.com/index.php?main_page=account&amp;amp;zenid=(value removed)) [<a href='function.parse-url'>function.parse-url</a>]: Unable to parse URL in /sub-directory-removed/public_html/subfolder/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 1273

[05-Jan-2015 19:11:09] PHP Warning:  parse_url(/rewritten-directory-c-5/rewitten_product_name-c-5_11/http://) [<a href='function.parse-url'>function.parse-url</a>]: Unable to parse URL in /sub-directory-removed/public_html/subfolder/includes/classes/seo.url.php on line 1273

Hadn't seen a similar post, wondering if anyone else has had this issue, or if a "patch" existed to prevent these types of terror messages. It does seem that in some cases it is possible to reproduce the error by incorrectly entering the URIs shown to cause problems... Thank you for your time.