Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

Wow talk about timely.. Nate your instructions came at a PERFECT time.. I mean no offense to the mod author, but these directions were a lot more straightforward and clear for me..

I understand that an example or two would help in the docs. I'll do what I can to add examples to the next version. It's hard to find time/motivation to work on the documentation for a free module.. I don't think anyone likes writing docs? :)

One question though for conor.. I cannot get the URIs I created for these two pages to work.. Is there something I am missing??

main_page = /hairisle/reviews
URI = product_reviews

main_page = /hairisle/gv_faq
URI = gift_certificate_FAQ

They should be

main_page = reviews
URI = /product_reviews

main_page =gv_faq
URI = /gift_certificate_FAQ

Glad you like the module!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Not sure if people say this enough, but thank you for your ongoing work with Ceon URI Mapping. I've been using this on my primary site for about (5 months?) so far, and it has never let me down once. I feel as though no Zen Cart installation is complete without this now.

That's really, really good of you. It does definitely make a difference hearing such positive comments.. thank you very much indeed for taking the time to post them! :)

Looking forward to the URI Mappings Manager, keep up the great work!

Working on it.. thanks again! ;)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

I understand that an example or two would help in the docs. I'll do what I can to add examples to the next version. It's hard to find time/motivation to work on the documentation for a free module.. I don't think anyone likes writing docs? :)

I hear you.. I just assisted a member here with re-writing the readme docs for Image Handler 2. It took a few passes to make sure we had everything in the docs clearly spelled out.. As a software BA I write specification docs regularly.. While I love my job, and I am a good writer, the writting aspect of my job I've always referred to it as a "necessary evil"..

They should be

main_page = reviews
URI = /product_reviews

main_page =gv_faq
URI = /gift_certificate_FAQ

Glad you like the module!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Okay.. I was SLEEPY as heck when I got down to those last few pages.. As SOON as I saw your answer i was like "I knew that.."

To further clarify.. You have to enter a URI for each category/product/ez-page/manufacturer or tick "auto-generate" and click "update" for each category/product/ez-page/manufacturer. Ceon URI Mapping is designed to give you intricate control of your URIs, it doesn't apply a general policy to them all (like the "SEO" modules).

Love this add-on!! I love having full control of everything.. Now if only I could get WordPress permalinks to work as nicely.. After this exercise I know that the next store I build should include this mod from the onset so that the URI creation happens as categories, product, and EZ Pages are added..

Now that I've got my first Ceon URI install under my belt, I am moving on to install this for a client who is now asking for SEO functions on his site.. He has LOTS of products and categories, and I know the initial setup is going to be painful for him, but once he goes through all of his products, it'll be easy peezy after that.. (Did I mention how much I love this add-on??)

[NateL]

I understand Conor. For what it's worth, your instructions did help me to figure things out. I just had to fiddle around with it before I got it right, and I figured a more real world example of what I just went through would help some one out. My example is lengthy, but you're free to C&P all you want

[DivaVocals]

I understand Conor. For what it's worth, your instructions did help me to figure things out. I just had to fiddle around with it before I got it right

Oh no doubt.. Conor's very detailed instructions were helpful as heck!! Especially the instructions on how to setup the .htaccess file.. All those Apache commands give me a headache, and I truly admire folks who know how to wield that very big stick..

Conor's directions on how to set that all up were MILES more helpful than any topic on the net I've seen.. As an example: the instructions for how to exclude a folder were on point to help me make sure that Ceon did not apply itself to my WordPress directory..

[deltaflyer]

Hi,
I am using other encoding - Not UTF-8 in other language (Thai)
Can I use the URL Rewrite ? I try the URI Mapping it show as Blank space...

[matt-h]

Hi
I've successfully installed the module and have one question :)
I temporarily want my default homepage to be index.html rather than my zen cart homepage which is index.php.
I've added 'DirectoryIndex index.html index.php' to my htaccess file but unless I remove all the rewritecond rules it doesn't have any effect.
Is it possible to have both the Directory index rules and the rewritecond rules work?
Thanks

[conor]

Hi,

I've added 'DirectoryIndex index.html index.php' to my htaccess file but unless I remove all the rewritecond rules it doesn't have any effect.

The section of the docs you want is

Modifying the rule to allow URI mappings to be used which end with a particular file extension (e.g. “.html”)

Basically, change your rewrite rule from

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$

to:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(html)$ [NC]

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Sorry read that wrong. Ignore my last post.

You must have done something wrong. The module with its example rule doesn't rewrite .html addresses.

Check that you are using the latest version of the module - 3.2.4 - and make sure you are using the example rewrite rule from it. Older versions of the module did indeed rewrite .html files, but this is no longer the case with the examples in later versions of the module's documentation.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

I hear you.. I just assisted a member here with re-writing the readme docs for Image Handler 2. It took a few passes to make sure we had everything in the docs clearly spelled out.. As a software BA I write specification docs regularly.. While I love my job, and I am a good writer, the writting aspect of my job I've always referred to it as a "necessary evil"..

At least you get paid for it! ;P Unlike a lot of OS software developers I do what I can to write good docs.. I really do hate the process though.. months of work... ugh! :)

Okay.. I was SLEEPY as heck when I got down to those last few pages.. As SOON as I saw your answer i was like "I knew that.."

Yeah, I'd a feeling it was something like that! :)

Love this add-on!! I love having full control of everything.. Now if only I could get WordPress permalinks to work as nicely.. After this exercise I know that the next store I build should include this mod from the onset so that the URI creation happens as categories, product, and EZ Pages are added..

Thanks for the nice comments! I haven't used WordPress before but I wrote the URI Mapping to work the way I wanted it to work and learnt a lot about things I knew little/nothing about previously - transliteration, encodings etc. - it's good to hear it works better than something which has loads of developers! ;)

Now that I've got my first Ceon URI install under my belt, I am moving on to install this for a client who is now asking for SEO functions on his site.. He has LOTS of products and categories, and I know the initial setup is going to be painful for him, but once he goes through all of his products, it'll be easy peezy after that.. (Did I mention how much I love this add-on??)

Thanks again for the nice comments.. it's good to see people really like the software!

All the best...

Conor
ceon