conor:

Hi,

We're all very busy people and don't have time to investigate your site by clicking link after link.

Please give SPECIFIC EXAMPLES of links that work and ones that don't.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Sorry about that. Should have explained in more detail.

y o dg e e.com.au

Left Sidemenu.

Click on Birkenstock.

This SHOULD show 2 sub categories. Women and Men.

Instead shows ALL Birkenstock products. Also doesn't display Women and Mens Sub Category link below 'Birkenstock link' after clicked.

Lower on the side menu click on Sendra Boots.

You will see that the Sub Categories show under 'Sendra Boots' and that the main page content displays sub Categories for selection. Men and Women.

Disable CEON works correctly. Enable CEON then above happens.

Some of sidemenu works.. some don't.

Thanks.

paintamonkey:

Hi there.

I thought I'd try this module out again together and also ultimate seo urls on two seperate test sites.. They both come up with the same error for me and I was wondering if anyone has encountered the same problem?!?

I use a shared ssl secure connection for my shop and am coming up with an error upon trying to access the login page -

ERROR message -
*
**Not Found

The requested URL /tshop2/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2 Server at web121.secure-secure.co.uk Port 443***

This server error message occurs on both Ultimate seo urls and Ceon URI Mapping. I'm pretty sure I've honed it down to something to do with the shared ssl connection which shows a username in the url like this -

web121.secure-secure.co.uk/USERNAME/tshop2/etc...

I'll bet if shared ssl is switched off it will work fine. In fact I'll do that tomorrow. Is there a remedy for this or am i completely barking up the wrong tree?

Login is working fine without the seo plugins.

Thanks, Paintamonkey

You will need a dedicated IP and SSL for your shop to run safely and if you want people to buy from you.

Usually the costs involved in are for SSL install and the dedicated IP setup rather than the certificate. Dedicated IP is required for the SSL Certificate to work.

If your host is charging over $150ish for this then your getting ripped off. (though prices may be cheaper now from last time I looked)

You can buy the SSL certificate yourself but they will still have to install it.

Hi,

Muzz:

Sorry about that. Should have explained in more detail.

It can be hard to help sometimes otherwise. :)

Muzz:

y o dg e e.com.au

I'm not quite sure why you keep putting spacing in instead of writing the full domain name.. you'd get a link from Zen Cart to your site in google if you just pasted in the domain name? I would have thought most people would prefer that... anyway.. just a side point..

Muzz:

Instead shows ALL Birkenstock products. Also doesn't display Women and Mens Sub Category link below 'Birkenstock link' after clicked.

Okay, the thing that is happening here is that you have multiple mappings which use the same URI.

You have /birkenstock as a category, or so you thought you did, but you also have /birkenstock as a manufacturer.

Ceon URI Mapping can't tell where the user came from - what "kind" of link they are clicking on - so it simply matches the first occurence of /birkenstock in the database.. which on your site must be the manufacturer.

So you need to go through either your list of categories or your list of manufacturers and change the clashing URIs for one or the other.

For your particular site I'd recommend going through your list of manufacturers and adding /brand before each.. e.g. /brand/birkenstock

You'll have to manually do this but it's worth the effort and will get things working.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

hello, i have ceon mod installed, its amazing, i never thought the seo mod could be customized like this.

i have a question, will mysql performance issues occur if the store has too many products? i'm so worried about the database issue

Hi,

pizza392:

hello, i have ceon mod installed, its amazing, i never thought the seo mod could be customized like this.

Thanks for the nice comments, that makes all the time spent developing and supporting it feel that bit more worthwhile! :)

pizza392:

i have a question, will mysql performance issues occur if the store has too many products? i'm so worried about the database issue

Versions up to 3.6.2 had serious performance problems with stores with 10s of thousands of products however version 3.6.3 and 3.8.0 both have query optimisations in them which dramatically improved the performance for large stores.

The store these improvements were made for and tested on has 26,000 products and they have been happy with the results.

Obviously I can't say for sure how it would affect your particular store, as servers differ as do the effects of having a differing number of products.

Realistically I don't see how it could be sped up all that much more, as there is really only a single query necessary to match an exact URI and it is the one that needed optimising previously.

There may be opportunities to further enhance the speed of the software by adjusting the code and any subsequent language check queries etc. but no-one has complained about/mentioned the speed since the changes in 3.6.3 so I can only think of that as a positive sign.

4.0.0 is in development and if issues were to be found with extremely large stores I'd be willing to see what could be done for 4.2.0 to optimise the software further as after 4.0.0 the software should be feature complete and bug free (nothing left to work on except possibly speed, if considered worthwhile bothering).

We're closing up for the weekend now so apologies for not being able to reply further until next week.

Have a nice weekend.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

It can be hard to help sometimes otherwise. :)

I'm not quite sure why you keep putting spacing in instead of writing the full domain name.. you'd get a link from Zen Cart to your site in google if you just pasted in the domain name? I would have thought most people would prefer that... anyway.. just a side point..

Okay, the thing that is happening here is that you have multiple mappings which use the same URI.

You have /birkenstock as a category, or so you thought you did, but you also have /birkenstock as a manufacturer.

Ceon URI Mapping can't tell where the user came from - what "kind" of link they are clicking on - so it simply matches the first occurence of /birkenstock in the database.. which on your site must be the manufacturer.

So you need to go through either your list of categories or your list of manufacturers and change the clashing URIs for one or the other.

For your particular site I'd recommend going through your list of manufacturers and adding /brand before each.. e.g. /brand/birkenstock

You'll have to manually do this but it's worth the effort and will get things working.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Thanks for the reply.

OK.. I edited the manufacturer names by adding - at the end of each.

The links now load... however, on the MAIN content page the sub category buttons are now missing. BEFORE the edit the Sendra Boots link that was working loaded with the Womens and Mens links under the left menu AND on the MAIN content page. It would load content about SENDRA Boots with WOmens and Mens buttons under it. These are now missing.

Any reason why edited the Manufacturer would change that aspect?

As for the non full URL. I think it's more professional to keep this separate. Only in my opinion.

Thanks for all your help. It really is a great MOD.

Further: I edited all Manufacturer's to

/brand/brandname as suggested. Still same issue of subcategory's not listing on the main page any longer.

Further: I edited all Manufacturer's to

/brand/brandname as suggested.

Also think the rest of issue is mine.

Listing correctly now.. but for some reason showing sub category on home page.

I do have show sub categories on.. but these were not previously loading on home page... but were when top category selected on the home.

Anyways thanks again.

Hi,

Muzz:

Listing correctly now.. but for some reason showing sub category on home page.

It looks fine to me? Either way, this is most likely just a setting in Zen Cart. Maybe you've fixed this now?

All the best..

Conor
ceon

buildingblocks:

The other issue is the admin url. If this type of url is used

http://website.com/zc_admin

> 
> I get redirected to the storefront, so to get in to admin this kind of url needs to be used
> 
> ```html
http://website.com/zc_admin/login.php

I think it must be something in the htaccess. This is what is being used in the htaccess file. The last two strings is what is original to the file.

Any help would be really appreciated.

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} !^/zc_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]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^websitename.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.websitename.com" [R=301,L]

The first big block of code is for a rewrite. This matches certain URL requests then fetches the content from inside the server by changing the internal pointer to point at a different internal location to get it from.

The last two lines are for a badly-coded redirect. However, it is too late to redirect to a different URL AFTER you have already rewritten the request to a new server-internal filepath. 

The redirect code needs to be moved to be at the top of the file and it can be corrected using the redirect code found in:  <http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151606>

Hello, i installed the latest ver. averything working great, my probelm is that most of my images are not jpg files they are file ext. how can i make them show up on my site without exchanging them to .jpg ext. ?

I've got most of my extra pages mapped in phpmyadmin. I've run into trouble with the news module links. The links look like this

/index.php?main_page=more_news&news_id=1

I've been reading the documentation for, Specifying the current URI Mapping for any other Zen Cart page

I've tried to follow the directions but I guess I'm just not getting it.

Should this be split between main_page and query_string_parameters

more

more_news&news_id=1

I've tried numerous variations but still no luck. I either get the url I want that leads to a page not found, or I get the zen generated link to the correct page.

I had everything working great until I upgraded my Zen Cart. At first I thought the uri module was out of date so I went to the Ceon site and installed the latest version.

Now I am running into a little problem, it is only mapping uri's for categories I make, but not for individual products. What do you think could be wrong?

I got it.

main_page - more_news

query_string_parameters - news_id=1

Hi,

melirlbr:

Hello, i installed the latest ver. averything working great, my probelm is that most of my images are not jpg files they are file ext. how can i make them show up on my site without exchanging them to .jpg ext. ?

Ceon URI Mapping doesn't attempt to map any images or any URIs with an extension. I don't know why your images aren't showing.

Check you've put a proper rewrite rule in place that isn't blocking URIs with extensions.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi,

idle:

I had everything working great until I upgraded my Zen Cart. At first I thought the uri module was out of date so I went to the Ceon site and installed the latest version.

Now I am running into a little problem, it is only mapping uri's for categories I make, but not for individual products. What do you think could be wrong?

It sounds like you haven't installed the software properly. Re-do the installation, taking special care when modifying the files in the admin/includes/modules directory.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

melirlbr:

Hello, i installed the latest ver. averything working great, my probelm is that most of my images are not jpg files they are file ext. how can i make them show up on my site without exchanging them to .jpg ext. ?

If you do have your images in the "images" folder, check your htaccess file and be sure your type of image extension is added to the allowed file types

<FilesMatch ".*\.(jpe?g|JPE?G|gif|GIF|png|PNG|swf|SWF)$" >

I have installed this mod on 2 sites now and it works great apart from an issue I am having with my customer login.

When you try to login to the site and press submit the page loads up blank as if it needs to redirect but it is not doing it. If I then go back to the home page by typing in the website address I am infact logged in.

Any ideas to fix this as I have had to disable this module until I solve this issue.

seeinteriors:

I have installed this mod on 2 sites now and it works great apart from an issue I am having with my customer login.

When you try to login to the site and press submit the page loads up blank as if it needs to redirect but it is not doing it. If I then go back to the home page by typing in the website address I am infact logged in.

Any ideas to fix this as I have had to disable this module until I solve this issue.
Blank pages = Errors.. You need to check your cache error logs after getting the blank page and see what the error log says. Post the contents of you error logs.

There is no error log in my cache folder :s

Try logging in to see the problem https://www.seeinteriors.co.uk

Username: [email protected]
Pass: manager

Thats just a demo account I setup