Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi Andreas,

Your problem is nothing to do with the .htaccess file. You have uploaded the admin files to the wrong folder!

Okay, I was too early with that one.. seems you had just got the wrong path to your admin folder in your configure.php file and have fixed that now.

Why does your .htaccess file have a domain name in the paths?

You should ONLY use Ceon URI Mapping for a single domain on a site, it should not be used for a test site on another domain.

If you have put the store in the root folder for your domain then you should not have

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/beautynets.com/ [NC]

You should be using the first example rewrite rule.

If that doesn't work then you need to get a developer to help you get rewrite rules working on your site.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[finlander]

Originally Posted by finlander
ahhh ... the width of Config screen in Admin is fine in Firefox, but splays waayy out to the right in IE browser. I'll have to add a width somewhere in ceon_uri_mapping_config.php to keep it over to the left in IE.

The software is fine with both Firefox and IE8.. I have seen this problem you mention of overly wide rendering before.. it was due to custom CSS used by the site. On a standard Zen Cart installation the config page fits in the browser window.

You need to fix the CSS on your admin side.
Conor

Conor, thanks for your reply. That makes sense, 'cept the admin stylesheet has never been altered .. I even checked all the install packages for all modules I've installed, and none have altered the stylesheet. Also, in Firebug, there is nothing interesting to note anywhere in the styles for the page.

One clue might be that IE8 won't let (or appears that it won't let) the 'standard_excluded_files' list (that is called from an array) word wrap, no matter what I do with the page's styles .. I set the width for the entire page, body, all tables, all fieldsets, everything to 960px, and all elements conform to that except that 'standard_excluded_files' list pushes (or appears to push) the second fieldset form to the right, as though the list insists on being on one line, despite the forced widths of literally everything on the page. Firefox does fine .. that list wraps just fine in FF.

Too weird, and I've wasted too much time on it already. I can still use the controls just fine and I should start using FF more often anyway!

[frisco_aw]

Finlander.
Thanks a lot for your htaccess solutions. it works like a charm. You rock.

Conor.
Thanks for your tips as well.

Andreas

[finlander]

You're welcome. It looks as though you have begun to edit the existing products on your site to trigger the URI mapping. Glad you've got it working.

[conor]

Hi Andreas,

Finlander.
Thanks a lot for your htaccess solutions. it works like a charm. You rock.

Conor.
Thanks for your tips as well.

Just to point out for future knowledge.. the .htaccess rule posted here for you by finlander is essentially the 1st example rule from the documentation.. the modifications made in it are unnecessary, merely syntax changes.

So when new versions of the software are released, if the first example rule has changed for any reason you can simply use it and things will work fine on your site.

The problem with your previous rule was that you had included the name of the directory your domain name was in, breaking the rule.

Hope that helps!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Conor, thanks for your reply.

Thanks for taking the time to help out others here.

That makes sense, 'cept the admin stylesheet has never been altered ..

Strange.. that made me go double check this on IE7 and I'm getting the same nowrap problem. This didn't use to happen.

I'll make sure this is fixed in 4.0.0.. no point worrying much about it for the minute as nothing is wrong functionality speaking.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[finlander]

Conor, mod_rewrite can be such a difficult thing to work with. I just posted the following on another thread because the rewrite seems to be causing the link between language and currency to get interrupted ... When I was changing from English to German and vice-versa, the currency wasn't changing. As soon as I turned off URI mapping, it immediately started working again. Dang rewrite! They always seem to cause some sort of problem.

(I did the testing on the home page w/ a bare .htaccess -- no other rewrites in there, so even on the home page, the URI rewrite still grabs the code needed for currency to change when language changes.)

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/newrep...ote=1&p=981004

Well, this linkage issue w/ language/currency seems to be caused by the CEON URI mapping code that works using a mod_rewrite rule, which are often difficult to get just right w/o unintended things occurring.

Conor's CEON URI mapping module is awesome, but the rewrite must be grabbing and rewriting some code being passed that the language/currency link depends on. As soon as I turned off URI mapping, the currency immediately began changing with language again.

[frisco_aw]

Conor.

Yea. i have no experience whatsoever with htaccess. thus, i was confused.

My test site in my local comp was working fine with example 1.

But when i deployed to the hosting site. i did not work since i have 2 domains in 1 hosting and the 2nd domain is not in the root folder.

I think the "RewriteBase /" that finlander did, did the trick.


Starting to use it now. Pretty cool. great mod.

Regards
Andreas

[conor]

HI,

I just posted the following on another thread because the rewrite seems to be causing the link between language and currency to get interrupted ... When I was changing from English to German and vice-versa, the currency wasn't changing.

Ceon URI Mapping greatly improves Zen Cart's language system, however, you are right, there is a bug in its language handling which causes a problem of not selecting the currency for a language when the language is changed. This is a known bug which was/is fixed in 4.0.0. There is some information about this earlier in this (far too long) thread!

I'll look it up for you as I can't remember off the top of my head and don't have access to the working copy which has the updated code via this machine.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[conor]

Hi,

Here's what I wrote in an earlier message..

I'll have to upgrade the software to move the automatic changing of the currency into the Ceon URI Mapping language handling code. Effectively making the Zen Cart init_currencies script useful only for non-URI mapped URIs (which is fine).

It'll be version 4.0.0 that this upgraded functionality is part of.. so probably a few weeks off being released. It's not a massive problem so I hope you don't mind waiting.

.. I hope you don't mind waiting either! I really hope to have 4.0.0 out this month.

All the best..

Conor
ceon