Chemo's Ultimate URL's

[Danielle]

Ah that makes sense, thank you!

[lina0962]

Hello,

Just want to make sure SEO-Url. 3.0.0-beta 1 is the still the newest version?

LINA

[mauryg]

Running ZC v1.38a on a localhost WAMP server. I installed Ultimate SEO v 2.105. I discovered that if I placed a product in the cart and then tried to return to that product page by clicking on the product name in the cart, I got a "Forbidden Access" error. The link had a long ID appended to the page name such as:
localhost/newzen/embark-p-546:b77b08f707992a5d739bd25dcf2d0d77.html.
This only happens with products that have attributes. The customer needs to be able to return to the product page from the cart to edit the attributes, if desired (using Edit Cart mod). (The error occurred without the Edit Cart mod installed.) I have tested the following configurations on the WAMP server:
Apache / PHP / MySQL
2.0.58 / 5.14 / 5.0.22
2.2.4 / 5.2.3 / 5.0.41
2.2.4 / 4.4.7 / 5.0.41

All of these FAILED (Forbidden Access error) but the system worked OK on my remote GoDaddy server: Apache 1.3.33, PHP 4.3.11, MySQL 5.0.45.
I know this problem has been seen before. Are there any explanations as to what is happening? Any solutions? I am leary to use the 3.0 beta version on a production shop.

[Absolute]

Check to make sure that your htaccess file is setup correctly. You need to make sure that the -p- line allows all alpha-numeric characters, and of course the colon. It may be that your file currently sees the colon as a disallowed character when checking the URL and so does not apply the correct rule.

Absolute

[mauryg]

Check to make sure that your htaccess file is setup correctly. You need to make sure that the -p- line allows all alpha-numeric characters, and of course the colon. It may be that your file currently sees the colon as a disallowed character when checking the URL and so does not apply the correct rule.

Absolute

I am using the .htaccess file as supplied in the mod and it is located in the root folder of the shop. The -p- line reads:
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Where do I specify the allowed characters? I searched for 'QUERY_STRING' but could not find a relevant reference to it where I could define the allowed characters.

[Absolute]

The (.*) denotes which characters are allowed - here it is anything.

2 things to check - firstly check your error logs, as these may tell you the URL of the page you were trying to access, and so shed some light on whether apache is actually rewritting the URLs for you.

Secondly, have you ever had the SEO URL mod working on this server? You may need to check if you have mod_rewrite enabled.

Absolute

[mauryg]

The (.*) denotes which characters are allowed - here it is anything.

2 things to check - firstly check your error logs, as these may tell you the URL of the page you were trying to access, and so shed some light on whether apache is actually rewritting the URLs for you.

Secondly, have you ever had the SEO URL mod working on this server? You may need to check if you have mod_rewrite enabled.

Absolute

thanks for the quick reply.
I checked the error logs for Apache and PHP and NO errors.
I checked the httpd.conf file for the apache server:
(NOTE: Remember, this is a localhost server on my desktop system)

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

<Directory "E:/wamp/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

UserDir "e:/wamp/Apache2/users/"

DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html index.htm index.html.var

AccessFileName .htaccess

<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

There are other .htaccess files in the subdirectories so I haven't checked whether one of them is overriding the one in the root. Any particular ones I should check?
Even more interesting, why did it work on the GoDaddy server? I noted that GoDaddy has Global Registers ON and my WAMP system has it OFF. I turned Global Registers ON for the WAMP but no difference.
The number appended to the URL is related to the product attribute selected

[keylesslocks]

how do I do this?

4. Remove the configuration entry from your database.

from page 86 of this post on how to remove: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...787#post372787

[Absolute]

how do I do this?

4. Remove the configuration entry from your database.

from page 86 of this post on how to remove: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...787#post372787

Firstly, BACKUP your database, as these tables affect your WHOLE store, and should not be "played" with!

Go into phpMyAdmin, and check configuration_group table. Make a note of the SEO URLs group id. You need to delete this row from this table. You then need to search the configuration table for all records with the group id you got from the configuration_group table for the SEO URL group. Remove all these records as well.

Thats it.

Absolute

[yellow1912]

For those who can not get this mod to work well or just want to try something else, I have just released a new SEO mod which aims to be as simple as possible:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...9&postcount=11