Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi Paul,

Paul27:

Thank you for the quick response.
Your suggestion did the work. Seems to be fine now.

Thought it would. I'm glad you're up and running now. I'd find out who did this if I was you though or it's likely to happen again or to have broken something else.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor,
Thanks for the great mod! I have an issue when viewing products by manufacturer (brands).

The sort and alpha filters, and the page 2, 3, 4 etc links are not working.

I've tried solving this myself, but to no avail. Can you please take a look and let me know if there is any way I can solve this?

TIA! :smile:

This is the client's draft site...
https://www.hairproductsonline.co.nz/shop/

Hi,

The pagination worked fine on your site for me. As did filtering by manufacturer.

The alpha filter did not work though.

The alpha filter works fine with rewritten URIs on all of my test sites so I'm afraid I don't think this is a problem with the URI Mapping software. You should debug the filters and see what they are doing.. the URIs being generated on your site are perfect - all the get parameters are being correctly appended to the URI - and should work fine.

Sorry I can't be more help than that!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

I can use ceon addon module perfectly on my localhost with .htaccess copied from configure doc.

However, I ran into trouble when I use the same .htaccess file to my addon domain on lunarpages server. https://www.myfirstsite.com use another ultimate module for clean url, https://www.mysecondsite.com point to mysecondsite.myfirstsite.com, and I install seon module on it, both sites Zen Cart are installed in root directory, I can see seon module worked, because I have clean url, however, a page error, can't befound always show up.

I see previous post, one guy modify the .htaccess in parent website to suit the sub domain, I don't think this make sense because I think .htaccess files are organized in diffent directory to manage to rewrite rules for that directory. Can you help? Thanks in advance.

I find out that the ultimate seo module of my primary domain uses a .htaccess file which conflict with ceon module .htaccess which my addon domain uses.

When I deleted my primary domain .htaccess file, and directly copy ceon sample .htaccess file to addon sub domain root directory, ceon works perfectly, so the question is now how to make .htaccess file on primary domain that ultimate seo module uses don't affect addon domain behavior.

I'll post my solution if I can find.:-)

solved! the ultimate seo module htaccess somehow use following lines:
#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourwebsite.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourwebsite.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

My htaccess file seems miss the '#' symbole before 'Options', so after I comment this line out, everything works fine. One thing still make me curious, it works perfectly with firefox and opera, but with IE, your key word will always be following be '?zenid=xxxxxxxx', don't know how to remove it!:-)

Hi,

Glad you like the module and you've sorted your htaccess file out.

[quote=goldknight;739690but with IE, your key word will always be following be '?zenid=xxxxxxxx', don't know how to remove it!:-)[/quote]

This may be something to do with cookies. It is important that the zenid is added if the browser doesn't provide it as otherwise the session functionality of Zen Cart won't work.

For the record, IE7 here doesn't add it when I visit ZC sites, so you should check out your browser's configuration (what to do exactly I'm not sure I'm afraid, I'm not an IE expert).

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

The pagination worked fine on your site for me. As did filtering by manufacturer.

The alpha filter did not work though.

The alpha filter works fine with rewritten URIs on all of my test sites so I'm afraid I don't think this is a problem with the URI Mapping software. You should debug the filters and see what they are doing.. the URIs being generated on your site are perfect - all the get parameters are being correctly appended to the URI - and should work fine.

Sorry I can't be more help than that!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Okay, I installed your mod on a clean fresh installation of 1.3.8a and I'm still having the same issue with pagination when viewing by manufacturers.

I've tested on IE, FF, Safari & Google Chrome, and it's all the same. How can it work correctly for you, and yet it doesn't for myself and others who have tried it? :huh:

Hi,

nsanford:

Okay, I installed your mod on a clean fresh installation of 1.3.8a and I'm still having the same issue with pagination when viewing by manufacturers.

I've tested on IE, FF, Safari & Google Chrome, and it's all the same. How can it work correctly for you, and yet it doesn't for myself and others who have tried it? :huh:

Actually, you're right. I was viewing your site by browsing all products and **filtering **by manufacturer. It would appear that when **browsing **by manufacturer the pagination does indeed fail. Sorry, my mistake, read your post wrong!

I'll take a look at this. I'm snowed under with development work for websites at the minute so it could be few weeks before I get a chance.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor,

I'm using v3.2.2 and everything is working fine except for one small issue. The store is installed in the root directory. Adding parameters onto the URI for the root causes a 404 error, though parameters work elsewhere in the store.

Going to...
http://www.example.com/
...works fine but going to...
http://www.example.com/?utm_source=news
...triggers a 404 error.

Using...
http://www.example.com/index.php?utm_source=news
...also generates a 404 but using...
http://www.example.com/index.php?main_page=index&utm_source=news
...works fine.

Regards,
Christian.

Hi Christian,

How are you?

CJPinder:

I'm using v3.2.2 and everything is working fine except for one small issue. The store is installed in the root directory. Adding parameters onto the URI for the root causes a 404 error, though parameters work elsewhere in the store.

I've found a few problems myself with the 404 functionality introduced recently.

I'm going to add on "exclusions" for the 404 handling to the next version of the module, obviously the home page will be included in those exclusions by default.

I'm afraid there's no release date for the next version at the minute, hopefully within the next few weeks.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Additional to my previous post...

If you are using Google AdWords it automatically appends &gclid=xyzzy to the end of the URI. If you are directing your ads to the top level of your site then shoppers will be sent to...
http://www.example.com/?gclid=xyzzy

...which will give people a 404 error. As a temporary fix change the Ad URI to...
http://www.example.com/index.php&main_page=index

Regards,
Christian.

conor:

I'm going to add on "exclusions" for the 404 handling to the next version of the module, obviously the home page will be included in those exclusions by default.

Thanks Conor. The problem can be worked around but it is just something people should be aware of.

Regards,
Christian.

Hi,

CJPinder:

If you are using Google AdWords it automatically appends &gclid=xyzzy to the end of the URI. If you are directing your ads to the top level of your site then shoppers will be sent to...
http://www.example.com/?gclid=xyzzy.

Oh, that's frustrating. I thought maybe you had some strange usage of your URIs.

The fact that it's google creating these URIs makes this a lot more important to fix.

I'll do my best to find the time to work on it, where I'll find the time I've no idea, maybe I can stop eating lunch and dinner. For the minute my advice is if anyone's store is on 3.2.0 I'd keep using 3.2.0 - do not upgrade to the broken 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 versions of the module.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor,
i'm an italian webmaster
i use Ceon URI Mapping (SEO) 3.2.2 with zencart 1.3.8a
and i've a problem with the manufacturers multipage:

For example:
_ i've one manufacturers that have more than 1 page of products.
When i click on the name of manuf. there's no problem because i see the right page with the right url:

URL that i see: http://www.domain.com/manufacturersx
URL default ZENCART: http://www.domain.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=226

but when i click to the second page i'm redirecting to the first page:

URL that i see: http://www.domain.com/manufacturersx :shocking:
URL default ZENCART: http://www.domain.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=226&sort=3a&page=2

finally.. if i use ceon uri mapping for the manufacturers i see only the first page, and the others redirected to the first.

How can i solve this problem? :frusty:

thanks for the attention

Marco

Hi Marco,

The issue you are having is the same as the one 6 or so posts before yours.

This is known bug that will be fixed in the next version, which will be released whenever I have time to work on it.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi Ceon,
I've installed this module successfully, it works pretty good. And the .htaccess file is very clean. However, I've found some inconvenience of this module. First, category and products can't turn on clean url automatically, although there is a tick already enable clean url in the cateogry/product info page, but it only take effect after user saves it again. Imagine a store with thousands of products, user have to click thousands of times to enable clean url.
Second, clean url can't detect conflict automaticaly, when I have products share with the same title, newly saved products will overwrite previous product clean url because they have the same clean url address because of the same title, and I don't want to edit ecah clean url manually to avoid conflict.

I use drupal also, its path auto module can avoid clean url conflict.
I use ultimate seo module previously, it also can avoid conflict.

Did I miss something?

Hi,

goldknight:

Imagine a store with thousands of products, user have to click thousands of times to enable clean url.

In the next version's documentation I'm going to highlight what I've said here several times.. the software is not aimed towards sites with many products as the auto-generation only takes place when adding or updating categories or products. The current versions have been designed for new or small sites. Auto-generating URIs for entire stores requires too many core file changes. A URI Mapping Manager is in development to cope with that.

goldknight:

Second, clean url can't detect conflict automaticaly, when I have products share with the same title, newly saved products will overwrite previous product clean url because they have the same clean url address because of the same title, and I don't want to edit ecah clean url manually to avoid conflict.

I haven't had any requests for this functionality before. It is not normal to have several products in the same category with the same name. In fact, I can't think of a single good reason you'd want to have that situation, maybe you can enlighten me?

goldknight:

I use drupal also, its path auto module can avoid clean url conflict.

Well I'm only one person, Drupal is written by thousands! You can't expect all the features for a free module from one person to be there from the start, these things take time!

goldknight:

I use ultimate seo module previously, it also can avoid conflict.

That's because each URI for it is completely unique due to the very nature of the software, appending product IDs to the end of every URI (which is very ugly indeed!).

goldknight:

Did I miss something?

Yes, you're expecting a free module developed by one person to have everything from the start! ;)

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

Hi

This was a very easy to install module. The documentation was very thorough and the rewrite examples were very useful.

The query I have is how to have the simple URI appear on the main index page in the category sidebox. When I hover over it, it shows up as the long url.

Also, when i click a product within a category, it display the 'cpath' at the end of the url, why is this and how do i get rid of it (it's not a linked product).

Thanks

Faz

Hi Faz,

Thanks for the nice comments about the module/documentation. I'm glad you like it!

chabbu:

The query I have is how to have the simple URI appear on the main index page in the category sidebox. When I hover over it, it shows up as the long url.

Yes, a few people have asked about that. I think that in the next version I might add a default mapping specifically for the index page.

In the meantime you can add the following record to the ceon_uri_mapping table, to stop Zen Cart using index.php?main_page=index for the home page in certain sideboxes (and possibly some other places.. it's very inconsistent in this regard!).

You can find information about adding a record to the table in the documentation. I'm simply going to list the values you should add here:

uri

/ (or whatever the store uses as DIR_WS_CATALOG).

language_id:

1 (or whatever language ID your store uses)

main_page:

index

query_string_parameters:

NULL (leave the null box ticked in PHPMyAdmin)

associated_db_id:

NULL (leave the null box ticked in PHPMyAdmin)

alternate_uri:

NULL (leave the null box ticked in PHPMyAdmin)

redirection_type_code:

301

date_added:

Use NOW() function in drop down gadget

This will redirect the index.php?main_page=index to / and will also cause Zen Cart to use / as the link instead of
index.php?main_page=index

chabbu:

Also, when i click a product within a category, it display the 'cpath' at the end of the url, why is this and how do i get rid of it (it's not a linked product).

This only occurs for linked products or products which have not had a URI mapping generated for them.

Hope that helps!

All the best..

Conor
ceon