Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hello,

I have been asked to help transfer www.petsavenue.com.au (with Ceon URI Mapping 3.2.3) to a new server.

I don't know how to get the Rewrite Rule working. Its working on the current server; I just copied the database and files over to the new server and a 2nd testing server but the seo links go to blank pages or zecart Page Not Found pages
http://pepe6420.staging-zeus.netregistry.net (netregistry)
www.onlineshopdesign.net/pa_test (godaddy)

I would think godaddy should work with RewriteEngine On. I had a look at the .htaccess file but I don't think I need to change this. Maybe I need to edit something else, or there's some thing I can added to .htaccess file to get it working? I will keep looking into it later.

Hello,

Just wondering if theres been any update to this working with easy populate? I have a new store and populating it via EP, however theres roughly 4000 products and doing them one by one is out of the question :-)

Hi guys,

I've recently moved over to CEON URI after a long frustrating battle with SSU, and it works great! Thanks for this great mod.

I've updated all of my products and everything appears to be in good working order, just 2 minor issues I haven't been able to resolve.

1. When I add a product with attributes to the shopping cart, if I mouse over that product in the shopping cart the link appears as /category/product?:1fddbd5a52e7ef2e74602409d20a04c6

If I click the link the page appears and still has the string attached

Products with no attribute do not have a ?:xxxx string attached. (note this is not the zenid - that part is fine)

2. In some of my product names I add a line break <br /> tag, when I use auto generate it adds br inside the product URI, I can edit this out manually but is there a way to have it ignore the <br /> tag? I have tried excluding it and converting it to a different string in the configuration with no luck

This is one Zen Cart 1.3.8a using CEON URI 3.2.4, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks again!

shazam_nz:

Hello,

Just wondering if theres been any update to this working with easy populate? I have a new store and populating it via EP, however theres roughly 4000 products and doing them one by one is out of the question :-)If you are referring to Ceon's URI Manager software, it's a commercial product, so don't look for any response from Conor on this forum with regards to it. Discussions of commercial products is frowned upon and doing so could get Conor suspended if he engaged in talks about his commercial offerings. My suggestion is to go to Conor's site and speak with him directly there with regards to the URI Manager..

conor:

Hi,

I've asked her privately to send me an e-mail.. hopefully she does. I still don't see how URI Mapping could ever interfere with any other software so I'm curious as to what happened with the other module!

All the best..

Conor
ceonG'Day Conor

Did you ever get an answer on this??

Hi,

How are you?

DivaVocals:

Did you ever get an answer on this??

Yes, after a few personal mails to her I got a response. As I'd thought there was nothing wrong with Ceon URI Mapping, the "Excluded Files" setting hadn't been configured properly to get it to work with the other module.

I have to get in contact with Raine, the author of the other module to let her know how she can configure URI Mapping to have her module work with it. I've been very ill recently so I haven't got round to that yet.

Hopefully I'll be well enough to release new versions of the various Ceon modules (with 1.3.9 compatibility and PHP 5.3 compatibility) very soon - today or tomorrow (which is about time as some of the changes I've had waiting to release since September 2009! :) ).

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi,

penner:

I've recently moved over to CEON URI after a long frustrating battle with SSU, and it works great! Thanks for this great mod.

Glad you like it!

penner:

1. When I add a product with attributes to the shopping cart, if I mouse over that product in the shopping cart the link appears as /category/product?:1fddbd5a52e7ef2e74602409d20a04c6

This bug has already been fixed in the latest version. In 3.4.0 the product_id parameter isn't removed if it includes attribute information so that the attributes can be correctly pre-selected when clicking on a product in the shopping cart.

penner:

2. In some of my product names I add a line break <br /> tag, when I use auto generate it adds br inside the product URI, I can edit this out manually but is there a way to have it ignore the <br /> tag? I have tried excluding it and converting it to a different string in the configuration with no luck

Sorry you'll have to stop using HTML in your product names if you want to use Ceon URI Mapping's autogeneration functionality.

You could add in code to strip HTML from product names before the autogeneration takes place but I don't think it's ever a good idea to mix design and code so I think you should rethink your idea of breaking a name into two sentences. It doesn't make sense in real life and it also doesn't make sense online.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Any exciting news yet? :clap:

Is there anything I need to do when I move servers to get this mod working again. Anyone have any ideas?

vandiermen:

Hello,

I have been asked to help transfer www.petsavenue.com.au (with Ceon URI Mapping 3.2.3) to a new server.

I don't know how to get the Rewrite Rule working. Its working on the current server; I just copied the database and files over to the new server and a 2nd testing server but the seo links go to blank pages or zecart Page Not Found pages
http://pepe6420.staging-zeus.netregistry.net (netregistry)
https://www.onlineshopdesign.net/pa_test (godaddy)

I would think godaddy should work with RewriteEngine On. I had a look at the .htaccess file but I don't think I need to change this. Maybe I need to edit something else, or there's some thing I can added to .htaccess file to get it working? I will keep looking into it later.

Hi
I have also stopped getting orders logged to my admin.
I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a with no upgrade recently
I have been using Paypal IPN with no problems
I did recently install sitemapxml on 4/9/10 and ceon uri mapping on 4/20/10 and first order that didn't log (but payment received) was 4/21/10
I don't get a lot of orders yet and last order that logged was in March 2010
I ran ipncheck.php but all it shows is my main page
Thought maybe I should switch to Paypal express so I ran curltest.php but all it shows is my main page

I checked "Excluded files" in the config and it says that /ipn_main_handler.php is in the list by default

Website located at:
http://santanoni.biz/

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
John

Follow-up on previous post
I did make the following change in the .htaccess Could that have caused the orders to not log?

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

to:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(html|htm|php)$ [NC]

John

OK
I found that the rewrite was the problem.
I had changed as follows:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$
to:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(html|htm|php)$ [NC]

I changed it back to basic:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$

and it works fine.

Not sure if:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(html|htm)$ [NC]

would work. I didn't take the time to find out. Maybe someone else has an answer to that.
Hope this helps someone
John

Hi John,

catach:

Follow-up on previous post
I did make the following change in the .htaccess Could that have caused the orders to not log?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(html|htm|php)$ [NC]

Yes, that would have made the main index.php file responsible for all PHP and HTML files.. which isn't something you'd want!

Glad you've found the mistake and got things sorted now!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Just a quick comment to say my site has been fixed by Conor.

the files needed to be edited for "Zeus Web Server's", as they were made for Apache only.
"Zeus Web Server's" are very uncommon.

I should have wrote in the above post that hosting configuration needed changing and file update was made for "Zeus Web Server's", as Ceon URI Mapping (SEO) was made for Apache.

Hi Conor,

how are you doing?... any better?

Just a quicky,
im rebuilding my main zc site this weekend. As you know im a fan of your URI mod... but im going to have a load of products that wil have several attributes..

you know..

boilersuit size,
Company logo, (front, back, both)
etc

I have never had products with attributes before but I have read posts that URI rewriting doesn't work with products with lots of attributes... Will your revamped upgraded version have resolved this problem when released?

Im just curious, it's not major problem if it doesn't.. im just asking so I can plan how im going to list products etc...

Take it easy
M :wink:

Hi Martin,

How are you?

Shane78:

how are you doing?... any better?

Not much unfortunately. Heading for my latest MRI in about 10 minutes, so will get a nice half hour rest. :)

Shane78:

I have never had products with attributes before but I have read posts that URI rewriting doesn't work with products with lots of attributes... Will your revamped upgraded version have resolved this problem when released?

There's no problem with attributes.. it's simply that any product with attributes is seen as the same product (as that is the way Zen Cart works, not having "Product Variant" support and with 2.0.0 non-existent!).

To handle viewing of products with attributes which have already been added to the cart, the products_id must stay in the URI. There's a bug in the current version which breaks the format of this variable so that link between the cart back to the products page gets broken and it is this link which is fixed in the latest version of the software, 3.4.0. However, all other functionality (i.e. all the important stuff, like add to cart) works fine.

Depending on how today goes I may get the chance to package the new version up and release it before you get working on the site.. can't promise anything though!

At least you know now the new version's not essential for what you are doing - not having it won't affect how you do things, when you upgrade to 3.4.0 things will simply "work better". :)

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Cheers fella!

they're weird those MRI machines... only had one scan before, very loud but strangely relaxing!.. until you need to scratch the end of your nose!..

Dont worry about getting your update out this weekend... take the time to relax!!!

Fingers crossed.. let us know how you get on!!!

I am using 1.39a, and was trying out on Ceon URI Mapping.

I have tried to create a test category with a test product, using the auto generated selection. When I tried to load that page, it doesn't load the product page, but only showing the homepage.

In addition, I had all error pages redirected to pagenotfound.php before installing Ceon, after including the rewrite rule into the .htaccess, the error pages redirection doesn't work anymore.

Has anyone encounter the new url not loading on the product page? I have more than a thousand products, so I don't want to change anything yet until I am able to get the test product to work, and able to log in as orders.

Ok, I figured out that my error documents are not redirecting to pagenotfound.php because that it was directed to index.php instead. So that part is good now.

I am just waiting to see if anyone also experience the new url not landing on the product page.

Thanks