Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi Mike,

mike_uk100:

please could you have a quick look and let me know what I'm missing

The rewrite rule you posted couldn't be responsible for blocking the google sitemap script so I'm afraid something else is responsible for the 404.

Are you sure you don't have other rewrite rules on the site? In another .htaccess file or a VirtualHost directive?

If you're not sure what I mean by that, please ask your host/web developer to check out your site!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

Hi,

tiaz:

Would the site .htacess cause a problem viewing urls eg. end up conflicting with WP .htaccess and not sending me to the correct store pages and instead go to an error 404 on wp do you know?

No, the new example rule with the latest versions of the module won't interfere with other third party software as it doesn't rewrite URIs ending in a file extension (.html/.php etc.).

tiaz:

Also- at what point would you reccomend intalling the mod, now when store has no products or after products are added? (Ill be adding them via a csv some 2k of products).

I see the mod has an auto mode- so wanted to know at what stage it was best to add this.

The auto-generation has to be applied to each category and product manually one at a time.

For that reason I'm not sure the module's suitable for you.

It's aimed more towards stores which are just starting and are adding the categories and products manually.. adding the products using a CSV will skip the URI auto-generation code.

You could upgrade the CSV import script to auto-generate the URIs but you'd have to write the necessary PHP code to call the URI Mapping module's URI auto-generation functions.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

Hi Paul,

Wilkesy:

Im thinking of changing over this the mod but im worried as all the searche engines currently have my URL's indexed. Will this mod re-direct or throw a 404 error if a customer come through on 1 of the old links which was created with magic SEO?

It would throw a 404 by default.

You'd have to enter "historical" URIs for each old URI on your site, so they map to the new URIs on the site. Then the module will correctly redirect the old URIs to the new ones and the search engines will start to use the new ones instead of the old ones (therefore likely retaining your SEO page ranking).

This is easy enough to do using software such as PHPMyAdmin but obviously could take some time if you have lots of old URIs which need mapping.

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

conor:

Hi,

No, the new example rule with the latest versions of the module won't interfere with other third party software as it doesn't rewrite URIs ending in a file extension (.html/.php etc.).

The auto-generation has to be applied to each category and product manually one at a time.

For that reason I'm not sure the module's suitable for you.

It's aimed more towards stores which are just starting and are adding the categories and products manually.. adding the products using a CSV will skip the URI auto-generation code.

You could upgrade the CSV import script to auto-generate the URIs but you'd have to write the necessary PHP code to call the URI Mapping module's URI auto-generation functions.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

"You could upgrade the CSV import script to auto-generate the URIs but you'd have to write the necessary PHP code to call the URI Mapping module's URI auto-generation functions"

If I knew how to do this then I would.lol Alas I have no idea how, so if you ever add this feature please let me know as I would love to use this :)

Thanks You.

Hi,

Ive gone through and installed this mod on a fresh install so that i can have a play around with it and understand how it works before i put it on my website, however i have an error.

Ive installed it in a test directory called test123. Ive changed all the lines on the htaccess file to show test123 but im getting the following error

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /test123/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Ive checked things but cant see where its gone wrong? Any ideas?

Many thanks

Paul

Ignore my last post, looks like i made a mistake with the htaccess file.

Cheers

Paul

Hmmm me again!

Just playing around with this now and maybe im getting tired but how do you re-write the URI's for shipping etc? Im trying to enter the details into the database however nothing is happening. Categories etc are working fine so i know the mod is working.

Ive put 'shippinginfo' into the main page field and copied the rest of the fields as other records in the table, but nothing?

What am i doing wrong?

Many thanks

Paul

Hi Paul,

Wilkesy:

Ive put 'shippinginfo' into the main page field and copied the rest of the fields as other records in the table, but nothing?

What am i doing wrong?

Have you read the section of the manual "Specifying a Static URI for any other Zen Cart page"?

It has the exact steps required. You're probably entering a non-null value for associated_db_id, it must be NULL.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

hey there,

i have a problem with the reviews-function.
the add-a-review-site comes over a ssl-proxy, so that it looks like this: http://ssl-id.de/myshop.de/category/product1/add-a-review
obviously the problem is, that in this case the rewrited URI won't bring the user the correct site.
so the question arises, whether there is a solution for this problem. :blink: :P

thanks a lot
n3po

ie,

n3po:

i have a problem with the reviews-function.
the add-a-review-site comes over a ssl-proxy, so that it looks like this: http://ssl-id.de/myshop.de/category/product1/add-a-review
obviously the problem is, that in this case the rewrited URI won't bring the user the correct site.
so the question arises, whether there is a solution for this problem.

I'm afraid I've no idea what the problem is. Can you describe the exact process that is bringing you to this situation?

What URI is your admin on, what URI is your site on, how is a proxy involved?

This isn't likely to be a problem with the module but with the configuration/setup of your site.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

Hello all and I want to express a great thanks to Conor for creating this MOD :clap: I am looking for some assistance from someone who would have installed this on a windows 2003 server using a IIS 6.0. I'm having a problem. I have ZC V 1.3.8 and I'm using a template for my website that I purchased.

On my dev environment, I installed version 3.2.2 of the URI Mapping. My problem is that when I open up my site, I get my headers, footers, and side boxes, but my center box with my products comes up with a Page not found 404 error. My prod site is at https://www.costumeuniverse.com so you can see the template. I understand from Conor that it could be my rewrite but I'm not sure how to fix on iis.

I downloaded and installed Helicon's ISAPI Rewrite 3 and it seems to use the .htaccess file and I copied the lines from the installation docs but still receive the same screens.

Any help would be greatly appreciated? I've read through the thread but did not or could not find anything in regards to IIS or Windows.

THANK YOU!!:wacko:

conor:

Hi Mike,

The rewrite rule you posted couldn't be responsible for blocking the google sitemap script so I'm afraid something else is responsible for the 404.

Are you sure you don't have other rewrite rules on the site? In another .htaccess file or a VirtualHost directive?

If you're not sure what I mean by that, please ask your host/web developer to check out your site!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

Thanks Conor for your reply. I've now got it working - the solution seems a bit strange to me but I'll give a quick overview incase anyone else has the same issue:
The problem was that once I'd installed URI mapping, googlesitemap (and some other feed add-ons) didn't work. I was getting a 404 error when trying to visit the page googlesitemap.php in the browser. As I had the Anti-virus software AVG's toolbar installed on the browser I got AVG's own 404 error page. Once I turned the AVG toolbar off the pages all worked fine.:clap:

I have transferred version 3.2.2 files as described into a clean install of 1.3.8a. When I try to go into admin to

go to Modules > URI Mapping Config

I have no access to login:

Warning: require_once(/home/oilzonli/catalog/..../includes/classes/class.String.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/oilzonli/public_html/catalog/..../includes/functions/extra_functions/ceon_uri_mapping.php on line 21

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/oilzonli/catalog/..../includes/classes/class.String.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/oilzonli/public_html/catalog/..../includes/functions/extra_functions/ceon_uri_mapping.php on line 21

The file class.String.php is where it should be. What am I missing?

If I remove ceon_uri_mapping.php from admin/includes/functions/extra_functions, I can log in to admin, although I cannot edit any categories or products. I completed the install of the module and got messages to suggest all was well. I then made changes to htaccess for non-root directory install, and put the file in the appropriate place. So I have the install complete as per instructions. But when I put ceon_uri_mapping.php back into admin/includes/functions/extra_functions, I can again no longer access admin.

Then, with the file removed from admin/.../extra_functions/, I log in to admin, and when I attempt to edit a category, I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function ceon_uri_mapping_build_category_uri_fields() in /home/oilzonli/public_html/catalog/admin/categories.php on line 905

Presumably, I will get a similar error message if I try to edit a product.

Hi,

godt:

Then, with the file removed from admin/.../extra_functions/, I log in to admin, and when I attempt to edit a category, I get:

Copy all the files over again. Although you think you have them all in the correct place, you clearly haven't. Only missing files can cause the errors mentioned above.

If you copy all the files over again and still have a problem then use a different FTP client.

That will definitely be you sorted then.

All the best..

Conor
Ceon

Thanks Conor,

I really appreciate your clarity there. I'll clean the lot out and grab a fresh copy and do that.

Hi,

godt:

Thanks Conor,

I really appreciate your clarity there.

No problem.. it's definitely the cause of the errors so I hope you can get it sorted quickly and easily!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

I have meticulously copied all the files, run Winmerge to compare and update categories.php and ezpages.php, and I still get the same result. I can't login to admin.

I remove /admin/..../extra_functions/ceon_uri_mapping.php

and I can log in, but then errors all over the place.

I am at a loss.

Downloaded new package and installed new files over old (with exception of categories.php and ezpages.php). Same result. I am using Filezilla to ftp, and have never had problems with it.