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

[Sean Kersten]

Yes I took it down to try something but I put it back up. Maybe you can see something I am missing now but I will have the one who set up the server look at it.
Thanks

[lhungil]

Zen Cart (and Ultimate URLs) was designed to run on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).¹

As previously posted, you are attempting to run your "staging" website on a LEMP stack (nGinx instead of Apache). The nGinx web server does NOT natively support the use of .htaccess files. Both Zen Cart and Ultimate URLs use .htaccess files (one to add security and performance tweaks, the other to handle incoming URLs).

The quickest (and easiest) method to get your "staging" server up and running would be to use a LAMP stack on your "staging" server (and configure it to load / allow the required Apache modules).

Alternately, you (or your server admin) can convert the various .htaccess files from both Zen Cart and Ultimate URLs and add the corresponding entries into the nGinx configuration files.


Note 1: See the Zen Cart Server Requirements for more details.

[Sean Kersten]

I read a little about it last night. The weird thing is that the site runs perfect and super fast but once I install the Ultimate URL mod it redirects itself. Ill have the guy who set up the server look into it. Thanks for the replies

[lhungil]

Not weird at all (and not a bug with Ultimate URLs).

If you use a webserver other than Apache (such as nGinx or IIS), you will need to manually recreate the functionality added by the .htaccess files (from both Zen Cart and Ultimate URLs).

Running without converting the Zen Cart directives negatively impacts security and performance. Running without converting the Ultimate URL directives means your webserver does not know how to handle the URLs generated by Ultimate URLs.

[delia]

Got an error with the new version - may be site specific but don't see how.

htmlspecialchars(): charset `utf8' not supported, assuming iso-8859-1 in /home/user/public_html/includes/classes/usu.php on line 241

filling up the logs folder!

[lhungil]

Looks like an invalid CHARSET may be defined in one or more of the affected store's language files. For example the main language files for english: "/includes/languages/english.php" and "/admin/includes/languages/english.php".

For stores returning HTML with UTF-8 character encoding either "utf-8" or "UTF-8" can be used.


NOTE: In Zen Cart the constant CHARSET is used for PHP functions. In Zen Cart the constant DB_CHARSET is used for the MySQL connection. These are different. For example PHP uses the name "UTF-8", but MySQL uses the name "utf8".

[delia]

Thanks for that explanation. I didn't realize there were two different ways.

The english file had define('CHARSET', 'utf8'); Adding in that dash fixed it. When I know why things are done, I'm more likely to remember and do it right!!

[lhungil]

You are welcome. Knowing is half the battle!

[ckfs1]

Documentation missing in the latest version

I would love to try installing the software but when and after I have unzipped it there is no documentation. This is after it says the documentation will show up after you unzip. I have no idea how to install can someone send me the documentation or a link to the documentation please.

C

[jeking]

Documentation missing in the latest version

I would love to try installing the software but when and after I have unzipped it there is no documentation. This is after it says the documentation will show up after you unzip. I have no idea how to install can someone send me the documentation or a link to the documentation please.

C

After you extract the Zip, look for index.hml in the readme folder.