kfarrell:

Uh Oh... Now I can't log in to the admin console at all. I was in, and everything was fine--I didn't even change anything, then I got logged out and I can't log back in. I tried adding a new admin user in the database, but that user can't log in either.

Got out of that one... I deleted my temp internet files and restarted my browser and got back in. :clap:

Still can't work with EZ-Pages though. Sigh.

Hello Conor,
I am freshman of zen cart and Ceon URI Mapping, I Used ultimate_seo_urls, but when I found Ceon URI Mapping is much more better than that, so I change to install Ceon URI Mapping mapping according to your installation instruction, I copy all the files folders in the "files" and "1.3.8a" folder in the modified_core_files, then paste them into our website root. I log in the admin, and I found the Ceon URI Mapping is there,

But I found my web url is still dynamic, I think I have some wrong operation on the Create the necessary database tables and configure the URI auto-generation settings.
and Add the rewrite rules to Apache.
Could you tell me more in detailed how to do that.
I aprreciate in advance!!!
If you come to China, I treat you.:laugh:

Hi,

alan145:

Think I have some wrong operation on the Create the necessary database tables and configure the URI auto-generation settings.
and Add the rewrite rules to Apache.

It sounds like you still have the Ultimate module running as Ceon URI Mapping doesn't automatically generate URIs.. you must remove Ultimate SEO from your site and re-install Ceon URI Mapping.

I'm afraid I've never used Ultimate SEO before so I don't know how to uninstall it.. you should ask in the thread for it!

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

It sounds like you still have the Ultimate module running as Ceon URI Mapping doesn't automatically generate URIs.. you must remove Ultimate SEO from your site and re-install Ceon URI Mapping.

Hello Conor,
I am sure I have completely remove the Ultimate module, because I delete all the files ans reinstall the zen cart, and intall the Ceon URI Mapping again.

when I log in the"admin" I found Ceon URI Mapping is there, you can check following pictures I cut from our website. Please check that
Could you tell me how to Create the necessary database tables and configure the URI auto-generation settings?
Also can i use rewrite rules for Htaccess which you have write for the sample directly? Can I use the following rewrite rules? or Do I need to write one by my own?

RewriteEngine On

Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxx])

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$

Don't rewrite admin directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/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]

conor:

Hi,

It's not quite a configuration issue.. I've noticed that your site will redirect to the URI Mapping entered in the admin when you go to the product page but no links use the URI Mapping. This means you've forgotten to upload the new version of

includes/functions/html_output.php

from the modified_core_files folder (for your version of ZC).

That means that the form action URIs are being set to the old dynamic Zen Cart URIs, so the forms are being posted to an old URI and then having to be redirected to the new URI. Since redirections don't re-post values the items aren't being added to the cart.

Hope that gets you up and running.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

I'm also having the problem of my products not being added to the shopping cart.
Funnily enough, I have another site with this module and it's working beautifully.
I have tried uploading file again - no good.
I even tried downloading the file from the working site and uploading it to the non-working one - still no good.
Products that haven't had their URLs updated can be added to the shopping cart no problems, so it does seem that something is going wrong here.
Help!!

Hi,

alan145:

Could you tell me how to Create the necessary database tables and configure the URI auto-generation settings?

No, as that will already all have been done correctly. You've no problems in that regard as you can see the config utility!

alan145:

Also can i use rewrite rules for Htaccess which you have write for the sample directly?

Possibly, that's what I've put them in the docs for. It's up to you to tailor them for your site if necessary. Please read the docs for more information, all you should need should be there. If not, a quick search for a rewrite tutorial on the internet should get you any other info you need.

I think you may possibly be mistaken in thinking that the site will auto-generate URIs for each of your categories and products.. you must go in and edit every category and product on your site, "updating" each, to have a URI "auto-generated" for the category/product.

Ceon URI Mapping does not work like Ultimate SEO, it does not do automatic auto-generation of all URIs.

I think that's the bit you've missed. I'd say everything's installed fine but you were just expecting all the URIs to change at once.. that's not how the module works!

Hope that helps!

All the best..

Conor

To further clarify.. You have to enter a URI for each category/product/ez-page/manufacturer or tick "auto-generate" and click "update" for each category/product/ez-page/manufacturer. Ceon URI Mapping is designed to give you intricate control of your URIs, it doesn't apply a general policy to them all (like the "SEO" modules).

Lissy:

I'm also having the problem of my products not being added to the shopping cart.
Funnily enough, I have another site with this module and it's working beautifully.
I have tried uploading file again - no good.
I even tried downloading the file from the working site and uploading it to the non-working one - still no good.
Products that haven't had their URLs updated can be added to the shopping cart no problems, so it does seem that something is going wrong here.
Help!!

Hi,
I just added this mod to my test site yesterday and I have the same problem. When the URL's are modified I can't add them to cart but the items with unedited URL's get added to cart no problem.
I think it might be an issue with the htaccess but I am not too sure how to fix it.
Any help will be appreciated,
Thanks!!!

BTW, I am running 2 zen carts with the same host under 2 different domains, the first installation is in the main folder under /public_html/
The other one which I installed this mod to is under /public_html/ressocks/
So what I did was I tried modifying the htaccess file in public_html but I couldn't get it to work, so then I added an htaccess file to /public_html/ressocks/ and the URL's started to work but now I can't add to cart???

Hi,

Lissy:

I'm also having the problem of my products not being added to the shopping cart.
Help!!

I'm afraid that the steps you quoted are the only ones I know of that would fix the problem you are having.

If following those steps doesn't help then you've done something wrong somewhere.

Sorry I can't be more help than that.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi Chris,

That doesn't sound like a good fix. If you are getting 404 errors with an xml file then you should add in an appropriate rewrite rule condition to exclude that file from the rewrite, not break the code to compensate for it!

Make sure you are using the latest version of the module and the example rewrite rule in its docs (which doesn't rewrite anything ending in .xml, .php etc.).
ceon

Hi Conor

I agree, it isn't a good fix, however I was getting very strange behaviour - I went through these steps:

Banner Swapper Installed - Works fine

URI Rewrite Install but disabled it (from admin config) - Banner Swapper Worked

URI Rewrite Enabled and configured correctly - Banner Swapper hangs when loading images.

I've narrowed down the problem using Firebug, and this is the bizarre behaviour:

The php script that generates the text/xml originally was running fine, generating output with no errors, however as soon as I switched on the URI rewrites, the php script still ran, however it's header status code was modified to 404. Firebug was still showing the content was being sent, however IE/FF couldn't load the XML at all.

Disabling that line in your code stopped the headers being modified to 404, causing the banner swapper script to work again.

I've added a rewritecond to my .htaccess as follows:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/AJAX_servers/AJAX_banner_swapper_server.php [NC]

Hopefully I've not done something wrong there but please correct me if I have.

When I get a bit more time towards the end of the week I will look into this in more detail, and perhaps find a better solution...

Chris

Hi,

baz4096:

The php script that generates the text/xml originally was running fine, generating output with no errors, however as soon as I switched on the URI rewrites, the php script still ran, however it's header status code was modified to 404.

Are you using the latest version of the module?

It has functionality in it to work with "broken" Zen Cart modules which use hard-coding instead of Zen Cart's link functions etc.

The 404 error behaviour you are describing seems to indicate that this banner module is one of these broken modules.

I'm afraid I have simply run out of support time on this forum for the rest of this week but you may want to take a look at the "Excluded Files" functionality in the Ceon URI Mapping config utility.

If that doesn't help, please make sure that your site isn't trying to rewrite URIs ending with .php or .xml.. the example rewrite rules in the latest versions of the modules don't do this, earlier ones did so won't work with your site!

Hope that helps.

Enjoy the rest of your week! :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

Are you using the latest version of the module?

It has functionality in it to work with "broken" Zen Cart modules which use hard-coding instead of Zen Cart's link functions etc.

The 404 error behaviour you are describing seems to indicate that this banner module is one of these broken modules.

I'm afraid I have simply run out of support time on this forum for the rest of this week but you may want to take a look at the "Excluded Files" functionality in the Ceon URI Mapping config utility.

If that doesn't help, please make sure that your site isn't trying to rewrite URIs ending with .php or .xml.. the example rewrite rules in the latest versions of the modules don't do this, earlier ones did so won't work with your site!

Hope that helps.

Enjoy the rest of your week! :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor

I'm using the latest version (3.2.3). I will definitely give the excluded files a look over. Thanks for your time - I appreciate it.

Chris

Hi Alan,

I too upgraded from Ultimate SEO and found these instructions for removing that mod useful:

http://www.magic-seo-url.com/zencart/tips/removing-ultimate-seo-urls.html

However, I am having a problem that perhaps Conor could help me with. I'm getting this error from my test server after installation:

Warning: require_once(DIR_FS_ADMINincludes/classes/class.String.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/websites/zen-cart/includes/functions/extra_functions/ceon_uri_mapping.php on line 21

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'DIR_FS_ADMINincludes/classes/class.String.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/websites/zen-cart/includes/functions/extra_functions/ceon_uri_mapping.php on line 21

I've checked the two topics where others have experienced this problem and tried the solutions you recommended (re-FTPing), but no dice.

The server is local to my network, so I've tried just moving the files, and then tried to FTP it as well, but I keep having the same problem.

I've added the .htaccess file in my zen cart folder, but nothing.

Can you help me out here?

Thanks, Nathan

alan145:

Hello Conor,
I am freshman of zen cart and Ceon URI Mapping, I Used ultimate_seo_urls, but when I found Ceon URI Mapping is much more better than that, so I change to install Ceon URI Mapping mapping according to your installation instruction, I copy all the files folders in the "files" and "1.3.8a" folder in the modified_core_files, then paste them into our website root. I log in the admin, and I found the Ceon URI Mapping is there,

But I found my web url is still dynamic, I think I have some wrong operation on the Create the necessary database tables and configure the URI auto-generation settings.
and Add the rewrite rules to Apache.
Could you tell me more in detailed how to do that.
I aprreciate in advance!!!
If you come to China, I treat you.:laugh:

Hi Nathan,

nathant:

Warning: require_once(DIR_FS_ADMINincludes/classes/class.String.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/websites/zen-cart/includes/functions/extra_functions/ceon_uri_mapping.php on line 21

As can clearly be seen, you have not got a definition for DIR_FS_ADMIN. That is because the above file should not be in the catalog but in your admin folder!

Delete the file /includes/functions/extra_functions/ceon_uri_mapping.php from your store (and upload it to the admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/ directory if you haven't already - actually, check that you haven't uploaded all of the admin files to the wrong folder!).

And please be more careful next time you upload files - take a note of where they are supposed to go and where you are actually uploading them! ;)

As I said previously, if you hear nothing else from me this week it's because I'm out of time so hopefully that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Lissy:

I'm also having the problem of my products not being added to the shopping cart.
Funnily enough, I have another site with this module and it's working beautifully.
I have tried uploading file again - no good.
I even tried downloading the file from the working site and uploading it to the non-working one - still no good.
Products that haven't had their URLs updated can be added to the shopping cart no problems, so it does seem that something is going wrong here.
Help!!

Hi,
This might help you out since I was going through the same problem.
Make sure that you have uploaded the modified_core_files
Specially, check that you have the modified version of the includes/functions/html_output.php
Hope this solves your problem!

HelpMeSell:

Hi,
This might help you out since I was going through the same problem.
Make sure that you have uploaded the modified_core_files
Specially, check that you have the modified version of the includes/functions/html_output.php
Hope this solves your problem!

Nevermind, I just realized you already tried this!!! DOH!!!

At least you tried! Thanks anyway.
I've tried some more things:
If you select the item from a category page, rather than the product page, it goes into the cart.
I also tried creating a brand new product (because I thought that way it couldn't have an "old" URL) but it's not working either.

Is it possible to avoid duplicated products with this mod, if they are linked in different categories?
ie.
www.site.ext/books/archaeology/history-of-ancient-rome.html
www.site.ext/books/history/history-of-ancient-rome.html
etc...

Is it possible ie. to make something like
www.site.ext/books/history-of-ancient-rome.html
or
www.site.ext/history-of-ancient-rome.html

and then have each product linked to the respective category?

And... how much this software charge server loading time?

conor:

Hi,

No, as that will already all have been done correctly. You've no problems in that regard as you can see the config utility!

Possibly, that's what I've put them in the docs for. It's up to you to tailor them for your site if necessary. Please read the docs for more information, all you should need should be there. If not, a quick search for a rewrite tutorial on the internet should get you any other info you need.

I think you may possibly be mistaken in thinking that the site will auto-generate URIs for each of your categories and products.. you must go in and edit every category and product on your site, "updating" each, to have a URI "auto-generated" for the category/product.

Ceon URI Mapping does not work like Ultimate SEO, it does not do automatic auto-generation of all URIs.

I think that's the bit you've missed. I'd say everything's installed fine but you were just expecting all the URIs to change at once.. that's not how the module works!

Hope that helps!

All the best..

Conor

conor:

To further clarify.. You have to enter a URI for each category/product/ez-page/manufacturer or tick "auto-generate" and click "update" for each category/product/ez-page/manufacturer. Ceon URI Mapping is designed to give you intricate control of your URIs, it doesn't apply a general policy to them all (like the "SEO" modules).

Hello Conor,
After you patient explain, I have some idea now.
According to your instruction, "
I think you may possibly be mistaken in thinking that the site will auto-generate URIs for each of your categories and products.. you must go in and edit every category and product on your site, "updating" each, to have a URI "auto-generated" for the category/product.“
Could you give me a example how to do that, how to edit?
or I have to have to enter a URI for each category/product/ez-page/manufacturer, where to enter?
Conor, Please help me, I am been crazy several days, I am not a professial in web and program,
Regards,
Alan

Alan - you simply click on the product to bring up the edit screen, and you can play with the URL down the bottom.

Okay, back to my problem with not being able to add products to the shopping cart.
Someone has pointed out to me that on the site where this module is working, the admin files are in a directory actually called admin.
But on the site where it's not working, my admin files are in a directory called something else.
Is it possible that somewhere in the code that's used to create the shopping cart ZC is looking for a file structure under the admin directory? Which of course wouldn't work because it needs to be changed??
I know I'm pulling at straws, but I figured it was worth asking.
I woudl REALLY like some help here!