Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

Lightbox/slimbox is gone and still no good. Maybe this mod just isn't meant to be.

You don't seem to be all that great at installing the software.. :) Send me FTP and admin details for your site and I'll take a look and hopefully get you sorted once and for all.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[azjs]

i have installed the module and everything seems to work fine but when i update any category or any product through admin the information wipes out, why is that?? plz reply

[zzfozz]

Hi Conor,

I'm hoping you can advise on my CEON URI Mapping Module implementation. My store is installed in the root htdocs directory and I think I've followed your instructions closely but I must have done something wrong because I'm seeing some 404 responses;

The address http://mydomain.com/category-1/ is good with all requests responding '200 OK'.
But for http://mydomain.com/category-1/sub-category-a/ the head section include files respond with '404 Not Found' as they are being looked for here: http://mydomain.com/category-1/includes/... etc. ie. as if the parent category was the site root.

It's worth noting that I was implementing this module along with WOZ so I've disabled WOZ to make sure it's not that module causing the problem.

Versions: Zen Cart 1.3.9f & Ceon URI Mapping 3.8.0.

.htaccess looks like this:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

RewriteEngine On

# Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-z]{2,5}$ [NC]
# 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)
RewriteRule .* /index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Many thanks in advance.

[conor]

Hi,

i have installed the module and everything seems to work fine but when i update any category or any product through admin the information wipes out, why is that?? plz reply

You haven't installed the module fully yet then. You haven't modified all the core files properly. Please carry out the stage of the installation regarding the modification of core files. When you successfully complete the modification of all files, you won't have the problem you describe above.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

But for http://mydomain.com/category-1/sub-category-a/ the head section include files respond with '404 Not Found' as they are being looked for here: http://mydomain.com/category-1/includes/... etc. ie. as if the parent category was the site root.

You've installed the module fine, it's all working.

What you need to fix is your template. As you have pointed out, it is using relative instead of absolute URIs. Obviously by using Ceon URI Mapping you are upgrading your site to using absolute URIs instead of relative URIs, so all links to files on that site (especially CSS files etc.) need to either be mnade absolute, or, what many people do is to set the "base href" tag in their header.

It's likely that your template has mistakenly removed the base href tag from the header file (I think it's html_header.php) or else uses relative links for its includes.

Hope that helps!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[zzfozz]

Hi,



You've installed the module fine, it's all working.

What you need to fix is your template. As you have pointed out, it is using relative instead of absolute URIs. Obviously by using Ceon URI Mapping you are upgrading your site to using absolute URIs instead of relative URIs, so all links to files on that site (especially CSS files etc.) need to either be mnade absolute, or, what many people do is to set the "base href" tag in their header.

It's likely that your template has mistakenly removed the base href tag from the header file (I think it's html_header.php) or else uses relative links for its includes.

Hope that helps!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor,

Many thanks for the quick response. I was already poking around in html_header.php when you replied. [FONT="Courier New"]<base>[/FONT] is there but seems to be being ignored. However by trawling through and putting a leading forward-slash on the front of every href I seem to be able to fix it. Feels a bit wrong, but never mind, I can't forsee ever wanting to revert but it will need close attention to detail at upgrade time.

Donation on it's way

[conor]

Hi,

Many thanks for the quick response. I was already poking around in html_header.php when you replied. [FONT=Courier New]<base>[/FONT] is there but seems to be being ignored.

That's strange, that shouldn't be the case. I'm contacting you privately to ask for details to take a quick look and to thank you for your donation, it's greatly appreciated. It's a very rare pleasure to receive on Zen Cart and very good of you! :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[bn17311]

hi,

any idea what ive installed wrong, everything seems fine but came accross this link

http://www.onyourbike.co.uk/index.ph...ucts_id=211559

should it not convert to new url

thanks
Bryan

as usual my error, thanks for help connor

bryan

[azjs]

Hi,



You haven't installed the module fully yet then. You haven't modified all the core files properly. Please carry out the stage of the installation regarding the modification of core files. When you successfully complete the modification of all files, you won't have the problem you describe above.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

i have again uploaded all the core files as it is but no use, i did not alter any file but uploaded as it is, can you suggest what would be the cause ??

[conor]

Hi,

i have again uploaded all the core files as it is but no use, i did not alter any file but uploaded as it is, can you suggest what would be the cause ??

Faulty FTP software would be my first guess.

Send me FTP and admin details for your site via this address and upload the files for you/check things quickly.

All the best..

Conor
ceon