Moving oscommerce to zen and possible issues

I am moving from oscommerce to zencart this weekend. I am well listed in google in terms of the amount of pages they have listed, and I get a lot of traffic from them.

I've got my zencart in /zen and my oscommerce in /store. I was going to simply change zen's name to store and rename /store to something else, but I have concerns....

Is there something I have to do to ensure no 404's when someone goes to a product page from google. The urls won't be exactly alike since I have cDynamicMetatags and Ultimate SEO Urls installed in the oscommerce cart...I know it will take some time for google to change the urls from the sitemap I ping them with on Sunday.

Any feedback will be appreciated. Also, any ideas on things I may be missing in terms of being aware of with this migration.

Ultimate SEO does have a version for Zen, Im not sure about cDynamicMetatags though

I posted this today http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105805

It might help you out but you need to setup each inbound link and then redirect it to the new product link.

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Thanks for your imput!

The setting of each url with a redirect is near impossible. I've got 2755 products in my store and I'll end up in a coma if I try that! :flex:

webbydeb:

Thanks for your imput!

The setting of each url with a redirect is near impossible. I've got 2755 products in my store and I'll end up in a coma if I try that! :flex:

Yes I totally agree that is not for your quantity.

I have used this method of redirect on some old osc to zen sites.
By placing this file in the store root.

<?php
// product_info.php
// osc direct product link convert to zen-cart product link
// this assumes that the product ids did not change form osc to zen

   header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
   header('Location: http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=' . basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
?>

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Do I add this code to a certain file? index.php? Or is it a file on it's own?

It is a file on its own.

osc used product_info.php file to get products

Not like zen cart index.php?main_page=product_info

skipwater:

It is a file on its own.

osc used product_info.php file to get products

Not like zen cart index.php?main_page=product_info

gotcha, thanks! Fingers crossed!

Any particular reason why you are running your store from a sub-directory?

If NO, then install Zen Cart at the root level then put this in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule store/.*(.*) http://yoursite.com/

That will redirect all requests to the old pages to your Home page.

Or you could create a specific Web page detailing what was done and use:

RewriteEngine  ON
RewriteRule store/.*(.*) http://yoursite.com/site-updated.htm

My store is an adult store with some images not appropriate to minors, so I have the entrance with that info and that they must be 18+ to enter. Covers my ######## and keeps some out who shouldn't be there.

webbydeb:

My store is an adult store with some images not appropriate to minors, so I have the entrance with that info and that they must be 18+ to enter. Covers my ######## and keeps some out who shouldn't be there.

Like I mentioned, the same seo mod is available in zen. So wouldn't the links generated remain the same?
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OSCs version puts hyphens between the name, ZEN doesn't.

webbydeb:

OSCs version puts hyphens between the name, ZEN doesn't.I believe Ultimate Seo can automatically redirect from old name to new name?

How would it know the old name though....

It only cares about the product/category ids in the url, not the names. So if the ids stay the same, it will know.

That's a relief...funny, I thought I posted this response. Must have forgotton to take my meds!

:clap:

Yup, you have to turn on force redirect or something in the admin setting. And Im not exactly sure it's in version 2.x or 3.x (either one, forgive me since I used this module only once long long ago)

webbydeb:

That's a relief...funny, I thought I posted this response. Must have forgotton to take my meds!

:clap:

It's working by the way. URLs are exactly the same...I'm so psyched!:yes: Great mod!

I've got this mod almost to work.

skipwater:

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My osc url is:
<http://www.mysite.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=882>

and it redirected to:
<http://www.newsite.co.uk/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=dcfdcd882>

Somehow it added dcfdcd to the product_id otherwise it work.
Any idea of how to solve this?

I just spent all day finding this. This product_info.php redirects properly when migrating from OSC to zen

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41281