Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I did not find any errors in those files.

No, you *missed* the errors in the files.

Please send me FTP and admin details for your site and I'll take a quick look.

I will post my solution in hopes of helping someone else. I ended up putting this in the htaccess to take care of this. I had to do it for each main category for the products, not the linked categories.

No, no-one do that! That's not a good idea!

It may work but it's a bad solution.

You need to fix the problem, not add a kludge like that to the .htaccess file.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

This module is causing issues on almost every one of our client's websites that uses it.

Try reading the instructions that come with the module. It's not very hard to read instructions.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[anqus11]

Hi Ceon,

How are you?

Thank you for giving me a great software for SEO purpose.

I got a small issue for ZC 1.3.9h.

I download and replace all the file with 1.3.9c version
Then I configure the Auto URI Mapping, but I don't know how to do last 2 steps in installation.

My admin folder is ak

Then I test the product URL:
http://www.akshop.com.au/Desktop/AMD-Machine

But it doesn't work. Is the reason of this cause I skip the final 2 steps?

Hope to hear from you soon.

[DivaVocals]

If you skipped ANY steps you will get this result.. Re-read the install docs.. follow ALL the steps..

Hi Ceon,

How are you?

Thank you for giving me a great software for SEO purpose.

I got a small issue for ZC 1.3.9h.

I download and replace all the file with 1.3.9c version
Then I configure the Auto URI Mapping, but I don't know how to do last 2 steps in installation.

My admin folder is ak

Then I test the product URL:
http://www.akshop.com.au/Desktop/AMD-Machine

But it doesn't work. Is the reason of this cause I skip the final 2 steps?

Hope to hear from you soon.

[anqus11]

I tried to do the step 4 by creating an .htaccess file in my root (as i can't see any .htaccess exist). The .htaccess as follow:

# 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} !^/ak [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]

My admin folder is AK. All the steps is done but the URI link is still not work. Can you help?

[celticwebsolutions]

After having just had upgrade issues myself I have to agree with Conor, I did an upgrade one version at a time from c - h just copying over the files that changed in each revision. Then after that I went back through the ceon install instructions and altered / replaced any files that the updates overwrote that needed alterations for ceon to work.

So that 5 separate updates I applied and at no point have I disabled ceon once I knew what I was doing. It's actually extremely easy once you re-read the instructions and notes that come with the zencart packages

Ceon is an excellent package and should be made part of the standard release if you ask me! Support is also exemplary!

This module is causing issues on almost every one of our client's websites that uses it.

1) the htacess rules make zc_install inaccessible so upgrading requires the module to be disabled temporarily in order to patch the database... we shouldn't have to do this.

2) it doesn't allow you to exclude certain pages from being re-written and as a result mods like Fast and Easy Checkout are losing URL parameters when redirecting between pages.

3) Even when the module is turned off, the .htaccess rules are still in effect.

Considering this is a SEO URLs module, it is important that it does not cause issues as uninstalling may not be an option or devastating effects could happen to a site's search engine rankings.

[DivaVocals]

2) it doesn't allow you to exclude certain pages from being re-written and as a result mods like Fast and Easy Checkout are losing URL parameters when redirecting between pages.

Can you elaborate on this?? The Ceon URI mapping provides a means to exclude apps which I have used successfully for other mods which required it. (the WordPress integration mods is the one place off the top of my head which comes to mind where I've used that)

Are you saying that this method is not effective for some mods/store configurations??

How can a file in a third party module be excluded?

Excluding a file from being processed by the URI Mapping module is a simple matter:

• Go to Modules > URI Mapping (SEO) Config in the Zen Cart admin.
• Add the path of the file on the site to the Excluded Files configuration setting, seperating it from any currently excluded files with a comma (‘,’).
• The path should start from the store's root slash.
• For example:
  /shop/name_of_file_to_exclude.php

[conor]

Hi,

I tried to do the step 4 by creating an .htaccess file in my root (as i can't see any .htaccess exist). The .htaccess as follow:

That looks good. It should work for the setup you've described.

I'm not sure what's wrong on your server.. possibly .htaccess files can't actually be used on your server?

Please send me FTP and admin details for your site and I'll see if I can identify/fixc the problem.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[numinix]

Can you elaborate on this?? The Ceon URI mapping provides a means to exclude apps which I have used successfully for other mods which required it. (the WordPress integration mods is the one place off the top of my head which comes to mind where I've used that)

Are you saying that this method is not effective for some mods/store configurations??

Specifically, we need this module to not rewrite the checkout pages. It is causing FEC a lot of problems which uses a lot of redirects (using the zen cart functions).

[numinix]

Specifically, we need this module to not rewrite the checkout pages. It is causing FEC a lot of problems which uses a lot of redirects (using the zen cart functions).

How can a file in a third party module be excluded?

Excluding a file from being processed by the URI Mapping module is a simple matter:

* Go to Modules > URI Mapping (SEO) Config in the Zen Cart admin.
* Add the path of the file on the site to the Excluded Files configuration setting, seperating it from any currently excluded files with a comma (‘,’).
* The path should start from the store's root slash.
*

For example:

/shop/name_of_file_to_exclude.php

So how would I add a dynamically created page from being rewritten? For example, index.php?main_page=checkout?

Could there not be a field in the configuration for specifying page names?