Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[ben harry]

After re-reading what i wrote above i dont think i was too clear on what the problem is.

My current site is a 1.3.5 that is live is mysite.co.uk/shop and doesnt have this mod installed on it, over the past few weeks i have been building a 1.3.8a test site in mysite.co.uk/test i have just installed your mod and put my site live within the root so its simply at mysite.co.uk it will take a while for this to become within search engines as its literally just a few hours old of being live, but my main problem is that when i try to go to mysite.co.uk/shop it doesnt load and throws a 404 error as with mysite.co.uk/blog, i have scanned through this whole thread and i couldnt find another post by someone that has multiple databases within the one domain, im pretty sure i just need a rewite code but im stuck at locating what the code is i need.

I hope you can help me out, as im really stuck as i cant get into my /shop/admin page to access the sales.

Cheers
Ben

[ben harry]

After re-reading what i wrote above i dont think i was too clear on what the problem is.

My current site is a 1.3.5 that is live is mysite.co.uk/shop and doesnt have this mod installed on it, over the past few weeks i have been building a 1.3.8a test site in mysite.co.uk/test i have just installed your mod and put my site live within the root so its simply at mysite.co.uk it will take a while for this to become within search engines as its literally just a few hours old of being live, but my main problem is that when i try to go to mysite.co.uk/shop it doesnt load and throws a 404 error as with mysite.co.uk/blog, i have scanned through this whole thread and i couldnt find another post by someone that has multiple databases within the one domain, im pretty sure i just need a rewite code but im stuck at locating what the code is i need.

I hope you can help me out, as im really stuck as i cant get into my /shop/admin page to access the sales.

Cheers
Ben

Quick update i have added the following code with success

# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/shop.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/blog.* [NC]

[ladyink]

I put this mod on a new site... After I had made a few test products. It worked great. Yesterday I added a bunch of products and used the auto generation "tick box" to create the mappings for those new products. Here's the problem: I can add the original test products to my shopping cart but not any of the products that were added after the mapping module. I tried removing the mapping and re-adding it but that didn't seem to work either. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Nancy

[kiddo]

Before I bugger this up, could you clarify how to map from:

/index.php?manufacturers_id=22 (old blogged location)

to

/index.php?manufacturers_id=67 (actual new location)

Thanks much Conor, this mod is too cool!

[conor]

Hi,

Hello conor hope all is well.

Really hectic but fine thanks! :)

Do you think this is down to a missing rewrite rule somewhere, or is it another error, and is there anything you could help me with.

Yes. The rewrite rule will block the addresses you described. You need to add exceptions to the rewrite rule.


Please read the section "Adding exceptions to the rule to prevent particular addresses (e.g. Control Panels etc.) being handled by Zen Cart" for more information!

You'll add conditions like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/shop.* [NC]

Glad you like another of our modules! :)

All the best...

Conor

[conor]

Hi,

Quick update i have added the following code with success

Off the internet for one day and so many support requests/posts!

Glad to hear you're sorted.. you can obviously disregard the post I just made!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

yep i just lost the enhancements i made to the front-end.

any ideas?

More than likely the "enhancements" aren't building their URIs correctly so when you go to a page like

/yourshop/mycategory/myproduct

the "enhancement" scripts are trying to access a file relatively instead of using the "base" URI of the site.

E.g.:

A script may be trying to access

/yourshop/this_file.js

But when you're in

/yourshop/mycategory/myproduct

it is trying to find:

/yourshop/mycategory/this_file.js

which obviously doesn't exist.

You need to contact the author of the enhancements (or if you can code, try yourself) to have them prefix the path to files with the shop's web directory (DIR_WS_CATALOG) instead of expecting only ever to be at the root URI of the store.

There's nothing I can do about this, it's simply that the author of the enhancement hasn't thought about the fact that people might want to use SEF/SEO URIs and introduced a problem in their code.

well i guess its time to abandon all hope with this.......thanks anyway

No, you shouldn't abandon hope.. the problem should be easy to fix.. simply a matter of changing the incorrect paths in the "enhancements".

As I said in the private message to you, I don't know what enhancements you are actually talking about, it's obvious to you since you built the site but not to me as a visitor!

Hope that helps! Thanks for the nice comments about the module! :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Before I bugger this up, could you clarify how to map from:

/index.php?manufacturers_id=22 (old blogged location)

to

/index.php?manufacturers_id=67 (actual new location)

Thanks much Conor, this mod is too cool!

Okay, one last example then.. got my own life to lead! ;)

uri

/index.php?manufacturers_id=67


language_id

1


current_uri

1


main_page

index


query_string_parameters

manufacturers_id=22


associated_db_id

NULL


alternate_uri

NULL


redirection_type_code

301


date_added


NOW()


Glad you like the module!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi Nancy,

Any suggestions?

I'm afraid I've no idea what could be going wrong. I can't see how it would have anything to do with the module though. This must be a coincidence and it must be something else you did to the products which is creating the problem (maybe their stock level is zero or something?).

Sorry I can't be of more help but at least you know it's not this module and you can start looking elsewhere to see what the problem is!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[kiddo]

Thanks again Conor, now I'll stop pestering you. Problem was I kept putting something in the associated_db field. Just seemed right. I get it now!