Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

[Lard_Lad]

I'm having a problem with my cart that goes away when I disable the simple SEO url stuff.

I have three top categories on my site. The middle category has several subcategories and the products are in one of those. When I click on that middle category from the main page, I go to a blank page. Not totally blank, but just the body tag is empty. Instead of displaying the category info, it's just empty with a message that there are no products to display in that category.

I also have picture links to the three categories on the main page, and when you click on the middle category there, it works fine.

The other two categories work fine either way.

The problem seems to be intermittent -- I have a hard time replicating it. Might it have something to do with the session / zenid? Seems like it usually works on a return visit and works fine after that.

Can anybody point me in the right direction on this?

[creamcrackers]

i see this as a really good extension, the person who made it put a lot in for the community

But the documentation is terrible, you have to go throught 300+ pages of people asking a lot of the same questions to find your answers.

The readme file in the package, sends you to broken documentation link. And the documentation that is there doesnt tell you anything about how to configure this after youve installed it, and why you shouldnt have a file extenstion on your links or anything!!!

Thanks for the great contribution but with better documentation you could save thousands of man hours work for people trying to figure out the answers!

[yellow1912]

i see this as a really good extension, the person who made it put a lot in for the community

But the documentation is terrible, you have to go throught 300+ pages of people asking a lot of the same questions to find your answers.

The readme file in the package, sends you to broken documentation link. And the documentation that is there doesnt tell you anything about how to configure this after youve installed it, and why you shouldnt have a file extenstion on your links or anything!!!

Thanks for the great contribution but with better documentation you could save thousands of man hours work for people trying to figure out the answers!

Again, the links are NOT broken. All the doc links are working. If you cant visit them, try again.
Im sorry if it doesnt help you, but frankly speaking I spent over a year for this module already, so dont blame me for not putting enough effort into it. If you want, why dont you go ahead and help me with the doc? Dont complain, do something. How about paying me to do it? Sorry if I sound angry but frankly speaking Im doing it out of my own time (and my money).

[yellow1912]

When i add something to the cart i get the following in the url is that right?

t?number_of_uploads=0

That is right, it is required by zencart, there is NOTHING WRONG with it.

[yellow1912]

I'm having a problem with my cart that goes away when I disable the simple SEO url stuff.

I have three top categories on my site. The middle category has several subcategories and the products are in one of those. When I click on that middle category from the main page, I go to a blank page. Not totally blank, but just the body tag is empty. Instead of displaying the category info, it's just empty with a message that there are no products to display in that category.

I also have picture links to the three categories on the main page, and when you click on the middle category there, it works fine.

The other two categories work fine either way.

The problem seems to be intermittent -- I have a hard time replicating it. Might it have something to do with the session / zenid? Seems like it usually works on a return visit and works fine after that.

Can anybody point me in the right direction on this?

I will suggest you making sure your version is current first by going to admin/includes/module_installation/yellow1912_ssu/current_version.txt and see what it is

Also, a link to the page will help us to know exactly what's going on.

[yellow1912]

... update

I just deleted all of the aliases... then i changed to php extension, reset the main cache. I brought every product on the screen so that it makes the aliases. Still - no good link for easy pages (i have to make my own manual alias for that right.. ok no problem) but the products have a decent link but no file extension.... so theres no way google will index a link without a file extension. So leaving auto alias and manual alias on i have to manually put the file exension in for every product?

Sorry for the questions i couldnt find any documentation to answer these questions

5thanks

Why do you need file extension? Will it help with seo? Or it will simply just make your links a bit longer?

If your ezpage links are not transformed, you have to check how they are created. Do you use the zen_href_link function to create links, or do you simply hardcode them?

[yellow1912]

Thank you for the reply.

I did follow those links. I downloaded the module manager from that page - is that what you mean by "package"? I also have the latest version of SSU.

When I go to Admin -> Extras -> SSU Manager, I get this:

Instruction
SSU caches your categories/products names and links in order to reduce the number of sql queries and minimize the performance penalty on your server. That has its drawback, however. If you change your categories/products names, you will need to reset the cache to force SSU reload and update the names.
Cache Functions Reset all cache: Click here
Reset alias cache: Click here
Reset only products cache: Click here
Reset only categories cache: Click here
Reset only pages cache: Click here
Alias Functions Manage Aliases: Click here

When I go to Admin -> Configuration, there is no SSU in the drop down, so I click on Configuration and go to SSU Manager under Extras, I get the same thing.

??

It means that for some reason your module has not been installed properly. Im not sure why it happens, but perhaps you can try to run this via tools->sql patches:

TRUNCATE TABLE module_version_tracker;

Now go back to extras->ssu and see if you see some messages telling you that patches are being applied

[yellow1912]

For those who complaining about the lack of documentation, I dont know what you are talking about, really!!!!

About:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...ules/ssu/about
Install:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...u/installation
Uninstall:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...uninstallation
Config:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...les/ssu/config
Alias:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...ers/link_alias
Cron:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zen...cache_clearing

And there are many other links there as well. Obviously not all info you need will be there, but most info are there. If you can help with documentation, please do so.

Those who have been around know that I even helped to install and fix the module totally FREE. So if you get stuck, just ask for help. Whining wont get you anywhere!!!

[creamcrackers]

Again, the links are NOT broken. All the doc links are working. If you cant visit them, try again.
Im sorry if it doesnt help you, but frankly speaking I spent over a year for this module already, so dont blame me for not putting enough effort into it. If you want, why dont you go ahead and help me with the doc? Dont complain, do something. How about paying me to do it? Sorry if I sound angry but frankly speaking Im doing it out of my own time (and my money).

Hi
Sorry i didnt mean to sound rude.
What I meant was youve obviously done a lot, put in a LOT of work for this which is great and you have one of the best contributions. But the docs fall short and dont explain what to do when its all installed and pros and cons of different settings you have to trawl through 300 pages of peoples questions when a couple of pages of well written docs or Q&A would answer most of those.

Thank you very much for this contribution and I am very grateful for it

[creamcrackers]

Hi
Sorry a another question

My .htaccess looks like this now

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

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

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



But I also want to rewrite some other links... I used to have my cart in a different folder /catalog/... but now its in the root directory.

There are some people still linking to my old site so I want to rewite the links coming in... they are

/index.php?ref=lately
/index.htm
/catalog/create_account.php
/catalog/index.php?ref=16&affiliate_banner_id=8
/catalog/specials.php
/delivery.htm
/index.php?ref=thaishop4you
/thai_florists_other.htm


so i need to rewrite the /catalog/ folder to the root folder and also reqrite /delivery.htm and /thai_florists_other.htm to a couple of my ezypages.

How can i add these to my .htaccess without messing up what is needed for SSU

Thanks