Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[yellow1912]

Is it possible to add a new ID delimiter? For example "/" I want to add that between the categories.

No, unless you use link alias. Please check my post just above, also if you want, play with 3.6.0RC2

Demo for RC2:
http://demo.rubikintegration.com/ssu/

[srigari]

Demystifying Duplicate Content Penalty

This is a must read for anyone thinking about SEO and is worried about duplicate content.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...t-penalty.html

Thank you very much yellow1912. With your help all of us using simple SEO URL will benefit a lot.


Sri

Fitness Equipment Store

[yellow1912]

3.6.0 RC 3 which is considered Stable is now available

If you are using 3.5.8 and currently happy with it, no need to upgrade for now. If you are using any 3.x version less than 3.5.8, please consider upgrading to 3.5.8 asap, many bugs have been fixed.
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen.../ssu/changelog

Auto Alias and Category Separator

Version 3.6.0 comes with a new feature called "Auto Alias", which will automatically remove all identifiers from your links.
It also let you set the "separator" between category names when link alias is on and auto alias is on ("/" can be used)
A very good example is

http://demo.rubikintegration.com/ssu/dvd-movies/action/speed-2-cruise-control

You will see that "dvd-movies" is the parent category, "action" is the sub category and "speed-2-cruise-control" is the product.

Please note that the link above is possible in older version as well, it's just that you have to do it manually by adding link aliases. Now it can be done automatically.

Improved Link Alias Manager

SSU now uses jquery grid to provide a totally new manager with pagination (which will help alot if you have thousands of aliaes), sorting, and searching.

Optimized caching

SSU used to store thousands of cache files in the same folder, this can slow down the file retrieval speed. Now the files are put randomly into multiple folders.


If you want to upgrade, make sure you read:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...es/ssu/upgrade
AND
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...ers/link_alias

[Steve_A]

Well I just installed the new RC and its works well.

But there is one slight problem.

I have a static page (index.html) for the website with the store loading on index.php. This allows us to work on the site behind the scenes.

However with the new version I'm finding that calls to siteurl/index.php are getting turned into calls to siteurl/ which of course loads my static page.

[pglock]

I've installed RC3. I'm now getting the following error in the admin site when going to admin -> Extras -> Simple SEO URL Manager :

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/splatcoo/public_html/store/includes/init_includes/init_ssu.php on line 11

Any ideas?

[yellow1912]

I've installed RC3. I'm now getting the following error in the admin site when going to admin -> Extras -> Simple SEO URL Manager :

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/splatcoo/public_html/store/includes/init_includes/init_ssu.php on line 11

Any ideas?

As of the new version, the local config file is not there by default as to not overwrite your local config file. But if you dont have any local config file, then the foreach loop may give a warning. It is not a big deal, but I will add a check to avoid this.

[yellow1912]

Well I just installed the new RC and its works well.

But there is one slight problem.

I have a static page (index.html) for the website with the store loading on index.php. This allows us to work on the site behind the scenes.

However with the new version I'm finding that calls to siteurl/index.php are getting turned into calls to siteurl/ which of course loads my static page.

Interesting, I never thought of it. The reason it redirects to index.php was that I want to make sure all the inbound links will point to the same link and help the page rank.

Obviously in your case you dont want it happens that way. I will check to see how we can get around that for your specific case.

Lets try this
Edit includes/classes/ssu/cores/link.php

Find this line

if((strpos($this->original_uri, 'index.php') !== false)){

Add right below it

if((strpos($this->original_uri, '?') === false))
return false;

[yellow1912]

As of the new version, the local config file is not there by default as to not overwrite your local config file. But if you dont have any local config file, then the foreach loop may give a warning. It is not a big deal, but I will add a check to avoid this.

Try to replace the content of init_ssu.php by:

<?php
    // load the default config file
    require (DIR_FS_CATALOG.DIR_WS_CLASSES.'ssu/config.php');    
    
    // load the config class
    require (DIR_FS_CATALOG.DIR_WS_CLASSES.'ssu/core.php');    
    
    if(file_exists(DIR_FS_CATALOG.DIR_WS_CLASSES.'ssu/local.config.php')){
        require (DIR_FS_CATALOG.DIR_WS_CLASSES.'ssu/local.config.php');    
        
        foreach ($ssuLocalConfig as $key => $config)
            foreach ($config as $subKey => $subConfig)
                if(!is_array($subConfig))
                    $ssuConfig[$key][$subKey] = $ssuLocalConfig[$key][$subKey];
                else
                    $ssuConfig[$key][$subKey] = array_merge($ssuConfig[$key][$subKey], $ssuLocalConfig[$key][$subKey]);
    }
    
    SSUConfig::init($ssuConfig);
    
    // load the core classes
    foreach(SSUConfig::registry('cores') as $class)
        require(SSUConfig::registry('paths', 'cores')."{$class}.php");    
    
    // set identifiers
    foreach(SSUConfig::registry('identifiers') as $key => $identifier){
        if(is_array($identifier))
            foreach($identifier as $sub_key => $sub_identifier)
                $identifiers[$sub_key] = SSU_ID_DELIMITER.$sub_identifier.SSU_ID_DELIMITER;
        else
            $identifiers = SSU_ID_DELIMITER.$identifier.SSU_ID_DELIMITER;
        SSUConfig::register('identifiers', $key, $identifiers);
    }
    
    // init plugins
    foreach(SSUConfig::registry('plugins') as $className => $classArray){
        foreach($classArray as $plugin){
            require(SSUConfig::registry('paths', 'plugins')."$className/{$plugin}.php");    
        }
    }

    // init alias
    if(SSUConfig::registry('alias_status'))                
        SSUAlias::retrieveAliases();

[Steve_A]

Thanks for that, it fixed it and it seems to work now!!

Is there any easy way of getting rid of the -c-1_3 part of the category link. I understand that it means that identical category/subcat structures are different but they look a bit odd

[pglock]

putting a dummy local.config.php file gets rid of the warning. Changing the init_ssu.php doesn't (though it looks like it should).

One other hint. My site can be reached by two urls: http://www.splatcooking.net/store/ or http://store.splatcooking.net I've modified the .htaccess to check for which uri was used so that redirects are only applied to store.splatcooking .net. here's the revised .htaccess:

#### BOF SSU 
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews 
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /store/ 

# 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 %{HTTP_HOST} store.splatcooking.net 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/store/ 
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L] 
#### EOF SSU

Note the HTTP_HOST condition.