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[yellow1912]

Didnt you notice something weird:
~beamerfi/catalog

Why do you have ~beamerfi there?

You may have misconfigured your includes/configure.php.

[cleverpork]

Didnt you notice something weird:
~beamerfi/catalog

Why do you have ~beamerfi there?

You may have misconfigured your includes/configure.php.

thanks for the reply! I know you've labored over this... been reading all the posts...

As for the includes/configure.php file. I haven't touched it. Forgive my ignorance, but I do know that's the icons and naming conventions that my host uses so I've seen that string of naming before. So, I suppose it didn't look odd.

I'm about to go into that php file and act like I know what I'm doing. Any advice here? What should that URL read?

Again, thanks! I'm hoping I can get this working. It's exactly what I wanted to find for seo reasons. I believe once this is tested and tried, folks are gonna' see a difference in their SE results.

[yellow1912]

PM me your ftp info if you want me to fix it for you quickly.
Otherwise, post the content of your .htaccess file and your includes/configure.php here

[yellow1912]

okie, here is an update:
cleverpork's site was using shared ssl, so when you click on the https link it will direct you to different domain, in our case we have
normal link:
http://thesite.com/catalog
https link:
https://some_shared_ssl_link.com/~subfolder/catalog

And here is the fix which appears to be working fine:

#### BOF SSU
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# Make sure to change "test_site" to the subfolder you install ZC. If you use root folder, change to: RewriteBase / 
RewriteBase /~subfolder/catalog/

# Deny access from .htaccess
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA]

# STRIP THE REWRITEBASE RULE FROM NON-SSL CONNECTIONS.
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~subfolder/
RewriteRule ^(.*) /catalog/index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]
#### EOF SSU

On a side note, I notice that when ZC is placed under subfolder, some of you set configure.php like this:

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.site.com/subfolder');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure.site.com/~username/subfolder');

This may work in the normal ZC setting, but it will cause SSU to malfunction. You need to set like this:

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.site.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure.site.com');

  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/subfolder/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/~username/subfolder/');

So basically, the http ones should contain only the domain name, no sub folders at all.

[cleverpork]

On a side note, I notice that when ZC is placed under subfolder, some of you set configure.php like this:

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.site.com/subfolder');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure.site.com/~username/subfolder');

This may work in the normal ZC setting, but it will cause SSU to malfunction. You need to set like this:

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.site.com');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure.site.com');

  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/subfolder/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/~username/subfolder/');

So basically, the http ones should contain only the domain name, no sub folders at all.

Good information!

Also, wanted to give a quick reason why some of us set it up that way. I found the zen-cart tutorial that guided me toward that. It's found here, if that matters.

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=14

I just have to say thanks a billion for spending hours on helping me out with all this. Seriously, amazing support on this.

cris