Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[DivaVocals]

Hi,



Reading over things again that seems clear now.. must be a bit too late for me here I think!

Thanks for the help/comments as usual DivaVocals!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

You're welcome..

[Chris_T]

Hi Guys,

What a great mod this is...


But the queston I have is we have forums and gallerys also on our server.

This mod works a treat but I have not been able to get therewrite rule working so it exludes the forums

We use http://<URL>/forums and http://<URL>/gallerys

When this mod is active, when you go to the forums or gallerys, we just get a page is not found.

Can anyone give me any pointers?

Regards

[conor]

Hi Chris,

What a great mod this is...

I'm glad you like it and find it useful for your site.. I'm starting to see a pattern in that.. :)

Can anyone give me any pointers?

It appears you haven't read the documentation? You should always take a look at the docs that come with software!

The third entry in the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) is:

"The module is blocking access to part of the site (e.g. the site's control panel)!"

which leads to part of the configuration section you should have read:

"Adding exceptions to the rule to prevent particular addresses (e.g. Control Panels etc.) being handled by Zen Cart"

You have to add the following to your htaccess file, before the RewriteRule line:

# Don't rewrite forums/gallerys directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/^forums.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/^gallerys.* [NC]

I have to point out as well that there's no such word as "gallerys".. it's "galleries"! :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[Chris_T]

Wow,

Thanks for the quick reply.....

I do apologise in advance for my stupidity, but should the rewrite rulles look like this?

# Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxx])
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$
# Don't rewrite admin directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin.* [NC]
# Don't rewrite editors directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors.* [NC]
# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/frontend.* [NC]
# Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (index.php)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/^forums/.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/^gallerys/.* [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

With the gallerys thing what the customer wants they get :-)

Cheers

[conor]

Hi,

I made a rather obvious typo there.

The ^ is in the wrong place. It should be:

# Don't rewrite forums/gallerys directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/gallerys.* [NC]

Once you make that change everything should work fine, your client's .htaccess file is fine.

With the gallerys thing what the customer wants they get :-)

Just tell them that they'll get no results on google if they spell it wrong and they'll wise up and use "proper" words!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[DivaVocals]

Just tell them that they'll get no results on google if they spell it wrong and they'll wise up and use "proper" words!

Nods in agreement.. Plus customers really judge online store harshly where there is poor grammar and mis-spellings

[websightdesign]

Just to add to this, in my experience, some of these fly-out menus use javascript to drive the menu behavior.. If this is the case for you perhaps a CSS only menu might help.. Not sure what horizontal menu you are using now, but here's some links you might be interested in.

I LOVE this site:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/
This guy has all kinds of CSS only solutions.. VERY cool stuff..

I am using this horizontal menu contrib with Ceon URI with no lag issues whatsoever.
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=479

I have this menu working but i'm generating around 60 links between 6 different categories on the drop down menu, do you think this couldbe the problem.

Thanks
Brad

[DivaVocals]

I have this menu working but i'm generating around 60 links between 6 different categories on the drop down menu, do you think this couldbe the problem.

Thanks
Brad

This question would be better posed on the support thread for the menu contribution.. The mod author can answer your question better than I could..

[fita1440]

Hi
Just downloaded an install URI Mapping but seem to be getting a extra /


"www.myshop.co.uk//specials"

any ideas

[conor]

Hi,

[quote=fita1440;845184Just downloaded an install URI Mapping but seem to be getting a extra /[/quote]

Check your DIR_WS_CATALOG setting in includes/configure.php (it should be a single slash). Otherwise quite simply you must be entering two slashes when adding the URIs manually to the database.

All the best...

Conor
ceon