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6 Mar 2009, 9:44 AM
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Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Some extra information regarding my previous post:

All "guest" visitors hav the link:
/includes/templates/pannenland/images/ or /favicon.ico

Spiders do have the standard url like /index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=338

Couldn't find anything in FAQ or configuration instructions.

7 Mar 2009, 5:39 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hello folks, I am starting to get ever so slightly frustrated that I can't get a response regarding my previous query on 28th February 2009. I have set up the CEON URI name mapping and the PHP IDs are converted as I want them but when you click on any of the converted links, the page cannot be found. I have tried tweaking my .htaccess file till I am blue in the face but it only ever gets worse and not better. My web host https://www.namehog.net cannot help and I need to get this sorted urgently otherwise I think I will have to buy a package like Clickcartpro where I am guaranteed support. This would be a shame as Zencart seems to do what I want...apart from the URI mapping!. Can anyone help? Please!!!:(

7 Mar 2009, 5:45 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi Pete,

petelutonuk:

Hello folks, I am starting to get ever so slightly frustrated that I can't get a response regarding my previous query on 28th February 2009.

I was away on my holidays from the 28th until today and I don't provide free support for people when I'm off!

petelutonuk:

I have set up the CEON URI name mapping and the PHP IDs are converted as I want them but when you click on any of the converted links, the page cannot be found. I have tried tweaking my .htaccess file till I am blue in the face but it only ever gets worse and not better.

Please send me FTP and admin details for your site via the following link and I'll check out what's happening. More than likely you've just put the wrong paths in. (Of course you can delete any temporary accounts later for peace of mind).

http://dev.ceon.net/contact_us

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7 Mar 2009, 5:47 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

ryanb4614:

Can this mod be used for just the ez pages and still use Ultimate SEO URLs?

No, sorry.

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7 Mar 2009, 5:59 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

Gerjan:

Two questions;
1 Looking at "Who's online", all the customers are looking at the images folder in my template. When I follow the link I end up on the home page. Before installing this mod I could follow the link and see what they were actually looking at. Now only pop-up images have the standard url. Is this "normal" or do I have to change settings?
The site works 100% ok because I still get orders...

I really don't understand what you are asking here? The who's online function in Tools simply links to the page the person was visiting, why is yours recording image paths?

Gerjan:

2 Do I understand correctly that I have to save every product again to change the url? Not that it's a big problem, it will only take some time.

Yes, it wasn't built with automatic support for generating URIs for all products in a category as the initial focus of the module was allowing specific URIs to be manually typed in.

Gerjan:

Although I only installed it to get better results for search-engines, it also looks much better in the url adress. There's a understandable adress instead of some long code.

Yes, absolutely. That was the initial point behind the module - to allow the use of human readable URIs on advertising literature. :)

Gerjan:

Again, great module! Thank you very much.

You're very welcome, I'm glad you like it!

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7 Mar 2009, 10:46 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Thank you for answering. Sorry for my english. It's not perfect and I sometimes have difficulties explaining (technical) problems. Also, I'm not an expert. I observe, read, ask and copy. Sofar it works :wink:

conor:

Hi,
I really don't understand what you are asking here? The who's online function in Tools simply links to the page the person was visiting, why is yours recording image paths?

That's the problem... it only links to the template directory, nomatter what page guests and customers are looking at. Strange thing is that spiders like googlebot don't have this problem, they show the original url/link. This problem started right after I installed uri mapping.

But... aftersome research I added this rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/includes/templates.*

Now it is solved (for as far as I can see) and CEON uri mapping is still working ok. The link that guests are looking at are also the links that are created by uri mapping. Like "bk_fortalit_braadpan_24cm" instead of "index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=560".

When I started designing my template 1,5 year ago I have added a menu from Apple Zen Template and one month ago I added a flash header. I think the menu is causing the problem I descriped. If you want to take a look at my site : Pannenland.nl

The only problem to solve now is that my "home"-button redirects to a category instead of the homepage. But that will come soon.

Hope can do something with this information for future questions en development.

Best regards, Gerjan

9 Mar 2009, 4:26 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

OK, this is by far the best mod I have seen for Zen!!!!!!! Conor...thank you....I have it downloaded and tested it on a product and ez-page and it worked beautifully!!!!!!!! :clap::clap:

Now if you can figure out how to achieve checkout without login this easily life would be good as a web designer who loves Zen!!!! :P

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9 Mar 2009, 5:02 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

Gerjan:

Thank you for answering. Sorry for my english. It's not perfect and I sometimes have difficulties explaining (technical) problems. Also, I'm not an expert. I observe, read, ask and copy. Sofar it works :wink:

Your English is fine, it's just that you were describing the end result but not in enough detail for me to understand what was happening.

Gerjan:

That's the problem... it only links to the template directory, nomatter what page guests and customers are looking at. Strange thing is that spiders like googlebot don't have this problem, they show the original url/link. This problem started right after I installed uri mapping.

That's bizarre, I can't think of a single reason that would happen and I can't replicate the problem here!

Gerjan:

But... aftersome research I added this rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/includes/templates.*

Now it is solved (for as far as I can see) and CEON uri mapping is still working ok. The link that guests are looking at are also the links that are created by uri mapping. Like "bk_fortalit_braadpan_24cm" instead of "index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=560".

That's good to hear although I'm never comfortable when I don't understand what's happening in the first place!

If anyone else has the same problem I'll do what I can to analyse/debug it.

Gerjan:

When I started designing my template 1,5 year ago I have added a menu from Apple Zen Template and one month ago I added a flash header. I think the menu is causing the problem I descriped. If you want to take a look at my site : Pannenland.nl

The only problem to solve now is that my "home"-button redirects to a category instead of the homepage. But that will come soon.

That's not something to do with the module but something to do with whatever is being used to generate that menu.. it is linking to that category instead of the homepage.. it must need the cPath part removed. Unfortunately I can't help with that as I'm not familiar with the software used to generate these menus.

Glad you've got things working now!

All the best...

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9 Mar 2009, 5:03 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

jill8026:

OK, this is by far the best mod I have seen for Zen!!!!!!! Conor...thank you....I have it downloaded and tested it on a product and ez-page and it worked beautifully!!!!!!!! :clap::clap:

lol I wouldn't quite say that but I appreciate the enthusiasm and the feedback, it's nice to feel the work on the module's appreciated! :)

All the best...

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10 Mar 2009, 2:14 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

OK quick question...I installed this mod on a second clients site - the one yesterday went without a hitch....but this site when I redo the EZ-Pages I get this...

http://www.vintagebodyspa.com/product-scents?chapter=0%3B

where it should just be

http://www.vintagebodyspa.com/product-scents

I am not having this issue with the site I did yesterday-they are on the same host and were installed exactly he same way? Any thoughts how to remove the ending there?!?

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10 Mar 2009, 2:37 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

jill8026:

OK quick question...I installed this mod on a second clients site - the one yesterday went without a hitch....but this site when I redo the EZ-Pages I get this...

http://www.vintagebodyspa.com/product-scents?chapter=0%3B

Quite simply you must have chapter settings for the EZ-Page, which is resulting in the ?chapter=0%3B being appended.

I don't know if your client needs chapter settings. If they don't then just go to the EZ-Page and clear the text in the chapter box and click Update.

If they do need this chapter setting then there's nothing simple you can do about making the URI cleaner than the one you've posted.

Hope that helps.

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10 Mar 2009, 2:42 PM
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We aren't using chapters at all for this site?!?!

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10 Mar 2009, 2:45 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

jill8026:

We aren't using chapters at all for this site?!?!

That URI wouldn't appear as it is doing if that was true. If you check your EZ-Pages your client must have entered something in one of the chapter fields.

If it's not that then I'm afraid I'm not sure what it is. This is definitely a EZ-Page configuration problem though and nothing to do with the URI Mapping module.

All the best...

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10 Mar 2009, 3:02 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

jill8026:

We aren't using chapters at all for this site?!?!

After spending about 10 mins looking at this it would appear that the EZ-Page system can't generate the query string value you are seeing (it doesn't append semi-colons). However, you appear to have hard-coded links into the bottom of your page which do generate this link.

The "Product Scents" link at the bottom of the page is:

http://www.vintagebodyspa.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=33&chapter=0;

Which clearly has a chapter setting of "0;" after it which is exactly what

chapter=0%3B

equates to when it is encoded.

Change those hard-coded links to the static URIs (e.g. /product-scents) or drop the "&chapter=0;" and everything will work fine.

All the best...

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11 Mar 2009, 9:45 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

I am not sure what I am doing wrong but I can never seem to get any SEO mod installed right away.

I am testing this on a development site. The site is installed in a sub-folder called /dev/.
I uploaded all the files for the Zen cart 1.38a core files and the additional files to the dev folder. Added the following .htaccess code```

<PRE>RewriteEngine On</PRE> <PRE># Don't rewrite any files ending with .[xxxx], except for scripts/HTML files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(php|xml|html|htm|aspx)$ [NC] # Only rewrite pages inside the dev directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dev/.* [NC] # Don't rewrite admin directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/dev/admin.* [NC] # Don't rewrite editors directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors.* [NC] # Don't rewrite payment pages/callback handlers RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/dev/ipn_main_handler.php.* [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/dev/iridium_3d_secure_iframe.php.* [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/dev/localities_remote_loader.php.* [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/dev/nochex_apc_handler.php.* [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/dev/protx_direct_3d_secure_iframe.php.* [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/dev/realex_remote_3d_secure_iframe.php.* [NC] # Handle all other URIs/file types (php|html|htm etc.) using Zen Cart (index.php) RewriteRule (.*) dev/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]</PRE>
But If I go to the site I get server error (500). Is there something wrong with my htaccess file??? The configure file is configure that the catalog path is /dev/.
11 Mar 2009, 9:58 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

Glamorousshoe:

I am not sure what I am doing wrong but I can never seem to get any SEO mod installed right away.

Please send me full access to FTP, your admin and your control panel:

http://dev.ceon.net/contact_us

If you like you can change your passwords first and then change them back afterwards for peace of mind.

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11 Mar 2009, 11:30 PM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Meanwhile I installed a new template and started using uri -mapping. It worked fine until I saw some strange lines in "who's online" (yes, again :dontgetit).

I a customer finds a product in the categorieslist and I see e.g.:
.../fisser_onderdelen/blue_point/greep

If the customer now pics (at random) a manufacturer from the manufacturer's list, this is added to the url, like this:
../fissler_onderdelen/blue_point/greep?manufacturers_id=35

Now the customers sees all the products from manufacturer 35 but at the top of the page, the sub-cat image from "blue_point" is still visible. It's also visible in the breadcrumbsl home -> fissler onderdelen -> blue point -> gefu (= man. 35)

Normaly, when choosing a manufacturer the site "resets" and then shows the items related to that particular brand.
When I delete the uri-mapping only from sub-categories, it's al over. That's easy but not the meaning of this module I guess :wink:

Another problem I had; I use a Googlesitemap module to create and sent my sitemap.xml to Google and other search engines.

When uri-mapping is turned on, I couldn't create a sitemap and sent it. A window pops up and shows my store's mainpage instead of the message that the sitemap is created. After some searching I found out that I had to add this to .htacces:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/googlesitemap.php.* [NC]
Just fyi, for future questions :smile:

I do no expect you to solve this first "problem" but I went over thing many times and I can't find it. Just want to let you know how things are and are not working.

For now I will use uri-mapping except for subcategories. Main categories and products work fine.

I hope this makes sense and that you understand what I wrote. If not, feel free to ask, I'll try to explain.

Gerjan

12 Mar 2009, 12:16 AM
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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

Gerjan:

Normaly, when choosing a manufacturer the site "resets" and then shows the items related to that particular brand.
When I delete the uri-mapping only from sub-categories, it's al over. That's easy but not the meaning of this module I guess :wink:

You found a bug. I was missing a few tests against the associated_db_id being null so the site was loading a category when it should have been loading the index page with the manufacturer_id in the query string.

I've created a new version of the module which fixes this problem. Please contact me at

http://dev.ceon.net/contact_us

and I'll send you the new version for testing.

I think in future I might upgrade the module to support adding specific URIs for manufacturers as well. I'd thought about that previously but just didn't have the time. (Currently you have to enter index.php?main_page=index&manufacturer_id=xx in the alternate_uri field to map a URI to a manufacturer page).

Gerjan:

When uri-mapping is turned on, I couldn't create a sitemap and sent it. A window pops up and shows my store's mainpage instead of the message that the sitemap is created. After some searching I found out that I had to add this to .htacces:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/googlesitemap.php.* [NC]
Just fyi, for future questions :smile:

I'll add that rewrite rule as standard to the docs.

Thanks for the feedback/bug reports.

All the best...

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12 Mar 2009, 12:33 AM
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Thanks for This mod but I am just going to remove this mod and go back to the ultimate URL mod.
A note for Gerjan, as a business owner I can understand how annoying it gets when you see that customer are looking at template files such as the problem you mentioned. I have noticed the same results with the Simple SEO mod as well. I am not sure what this mod and the simple SEO mod use but they do seem to act funny when you view the whose online, It get worse if you even have the Super Tracker you would even notice that almost every other customer if viewing template files with urls such as (includes/templates/template_default/english/button/mcnt_image.gif) that is really annoying.
I do try to install those mods (SSEO and URI)on my testing sites but they do a lot of function that are confusing and might affect other mods.

I do have the Ultimate SEO installed on my live site https://www.coolcarpartsonline.com it works like a charm with no errors and you can see it in action. This site has 20K products and hundreds of mods with no problem and looks very professional.

Google Sitemap will generate an error since the SE mods use 301 redirection, if your site has been live for a while you will not really need sitemaps. I will encourage using Google Base as it does increase traffic and customers.

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Re: Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

Glamorousshoe:

Thanks for This mod but I am just going to remove this mod and go back to the ultimate URL mod.
A note for Gerjan, as a business owner I can understand how annoying it gets when you see that customer are looking at template files such as the problem you mentioned. I have noticed the same results with the Simple SEO mod as well. I am not sure what this mod and the simple SEO mod use but they do seem to act funny when you view the whose online, It get worse if you even have the Super Tracker you would even notice that almost every other customer if viewing template files with urls such as (includes/templates/template_default/english/button/mcnt_image.gif) that is really annoying.
I do try to install those mods (SSEO and URI)on my testing sites but they do a lot of function that are confusing and might affect other mods.

Fair enough, that's up to you of course.

I think it's a case of a lack of understanding but time is money and I understand why you wouldn't want to to spend the time getting things working right.

All the best...

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