Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Hi,

Dean44:

I'm having issues with Ceon Uri Mapping interfering with my other add-in that allows a user to upload an additional files for the products.
by aetas Created by Mariusz Józala ( http://zencart.aetas.pl ), does anybody have any advice how both add-ins can live and play with each other nicely?

:wacko:

Ceon URI Mappings causes NO problems whatsoever with ANY Zen Cart module, if you take the steps listed in the documentation.

Read the sections of the documentation

"Ensuring 100% Compatibility with Third Party Zen Cart Modules - Specifying Individual Files to be Excluded from URI Mapping"

and

"Adding exceptions to the rule to prevent particular addresses (e.g. Control Panels etc.) from being handled by Zen Cart."

And you shall be able to work out how to prevent Ceon URI Mapping from affecting any other Zen Cart module.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

I'm afraid I'm having problems understanding how the information you are pointing me to has any relevance on what I'm trying to fix. For example, when I copy the update_product.php file into the admin/includes/modules/products/update_product.php

This file only contains default update product but not the additional information added in this source code made by the additional files add-in.
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Hi,

Dean44:

I'm afraid I'm having problems understanding how the information you are pointing me to has any relevance on what I'm trying to fix. For example, when I copy the update_product.php file into the admin/includes/modules/products/update_product.php

This file only contains default update product but not the additional information added in this source code made by the additional files add-in.
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Oh, right, I get it.. you are trying to use two modules which both modify the same file(s).

You must **merge **the files which both modules need to have modified. (Read the FAQs in the docs for a little bit more info).

Beyond Compare is the best software to do this on Windoze. WinMerge is a free, but inferior alternative.

If you are having a lot of difficulty merging the files yourself you will have to pay someone else to do this for you.

That should get you going!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

Well that all sounds okay (apart from the wasted effort renaming testsite2 to shop, I'd highly recommend you put test sites in a subdomain in future).. if it still isn't working please send me FTP and admin details and I'll have a look.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi. Thanks for the friendly offer to look at things. I've decided to use something else. But may have another go with this at a later date.

Hi,

paintamonkey:

Hi. Thanks for the friendly offer to look at things. I've decided to use something else. But may have another go with this at a later date.

That's fair enough.. although if you can't get the rewrite rule to work with Ceon URI Mapping you'll probably have the same problem with any other software that uses one, several thousand sites are using the example rule you posted with no difficulty so this a problem with your server being different or something not being in the right place! :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hello Conor, I have 10,000 products. Is there any other way to activate this mod for each product instead of going in one by one to activate it?

need help, I can't get ez-page work, edited contact us page, checked the checkbox on the bottom, click "update". check back this page and the uri mapping show "/contact-us".

however in the site, the "about us" link in the footer and information sidebox still show "index.php?main_page=contact_us".

is there anything I missed?

Hi,

fei2010:

need help, I can't get ez-page work, edited contact us page, checked the checkbox on the bottom, click "update". check back this page and the uri mapping show "/contact-us".

however in the site, the "about us" link in the footer and information sidebox still show "index.php?main_page=contact_us".

is there anything I missed?

That link is to the contact us page, not to an EZ-Page.. you either need to change the link to link to the page you want, or if you want to map the contact us page to /contact-us, you need to read the section of the documentation "adding a URI for "other" Zen Cart pages" and add a record to the database table using PHPMyAdmin with the main_page variable being contact_us

All the best..

Conor
ceon

I see. I have to treat it as "other Zen Cart page". Thanks!

hey i noticed when i did a quick google search for one of my products. it came up twice on the first page.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=Apeman+Training+Gloves+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_en___CA388

you can see the 2nd and 3rd listings are the same should i be worried of google having duplicate content as when i click on the first old link > https://www.gorillagear.ca/index.php?main_page=product_info...it brings me to > http://www.gorillagear.ca/ApemanTrainingGloves?cPath=22 and when i click on the second link it brings me to > http://www.gorillagear.ca/ApemanTrainingGloves

Hi, you'll probably find that over time the old style; index.php?product - etc urls will disappear.

When I first installed Ceon, for a couple of weeks google would show both the old and the new urls.

Also, you can edit a robots.txt file to avoid google spidering lots of duplicate pages. For example; a 'tell a friend' page linking to the same product.

Cheers,

Scott.

thanks i'll take a peek at that next week

conor:

Hi,

It features "auto-generation" so it's ideally placed for new stores.. by default a full URI will be auto-generated for a new product/category/EZ-page.

It will also be auto-generated if you are editing a product/category/EZ-page which doesn't yet have a URI mapping.

Instead of generating a URI when the customer looks at a product/category/EZ-Page, the store admin user(s) create the URI when adding/editing products/categories/EZ-pages...

so it is automatic, but in a "different" way. :)

I just took a look at the website for that module and its code and it seems to be a good module also.. however it adds product IDs etc. by default which I find ugly. The new alias feature is great but that didn't exist when I wrote this module and it requires more work for the admin user(s) than the auto-generation features of this new module (for products/categories and EZ-pages but not for other pages, it's easier for them!).

As yellow says, it does no harm to have a choice! (Thanks for the nice comment yellow1912) :)

Hope that makes things clearer still!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

good afternoon all,
I just loaded this module last night and it works great, thank you for the work you put in.

I have one small issue with it, related to the auto generation of the URI. When I check the box on a product to have it auto generate, then go to the store it works perfectly; however, if I log out of the admin side and go back in, the selection for the auto generation is not ticked, meaning it doesn't seem to save my selection. Have you seen that before, or is there something you can point me to in order to check that?

Thanks again for any help.

Hi,

Weird username you have there! :)

Glad you like the software.

red zeppelin:

if I log out of the admin side and go back in, the selection for the auto generation is not ticked, meaning it doesn't seem to save my selection.

Once you've auto-generated the URI once, the URI that was auto-generated is stored in the database and displayed in the URI Mapping field on the product page. The checkbox should only ever be ticked if you want to re-run the autogeneration. If you leave it unticked, the product will continue to have the URI mapping which was generated previously for it.

So basically, everything's working fine for you and you have nothing to do!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Conor,
thanks for the update. I guess I am a bit confused based on your description. If I use the URI that was generated, it still works, but the link on the product itself from within the site, still includes the querystring information. Basically, the shortened URI works if I put it directly in a browser, but the product does not link to that itself from inside the site.

Not sure if that makes sense. If it does, is that how the module is supposed to work? I thought the mod_rewrite basically changed the URL, or at least redirected to it automatically so you would never see the URL with the querystrings after it was set up.

Sorry for the long, probably confusing note!

Hi,

red zeppelin:

thanks for the update. I guess I am a bit confused based on your description. If I use the URI that was generated, it still works, but the link on the product itself from within the site, still includes the querystring information. Basically, the shortened URI works if I put it directly in a browser, but the product does not link to that itself from inside the site.

Okay, that is a completey different problem from the one you originally described.

You have forgotten to upload the modified core files for the store's side (specifically at least includes/functions/html_output.php has not been modified).

To be safe, please carry out the installation from the very start again, making sure you have uploaded and compared/merged each file listed in the installation instructions.

You'll then find things working as you expected.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Awesome, thanks for the info. I noticed that the core files for the store side stop at 1.3.9d and I have 1.3.9e installed. Can I just use the 'd' files?

Hi,

red zeppelin:

Awesome, thanks for the info. I noticed that the core files for the store side stop at 1.3.9d and I have 1.3.9e installed. Can I just use the 'd' files?

Yes, then when the new version of Ceon URI Mapping is released, use the files created for 1.3.9e that are in it. The differences are tiny so if you forget it'll have no effect whatsoever on anything.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Very informative and quick to respond - you are to be commended. I got it working and all seems good.

This is my first entry with Zen Cart ( I am coming from a background in OSC) and the forum has been very good so far. Hopefully I can assist some people on here as I did with OSC; once I get more familiar with the ZC code!

Thanks again.

P.S. - the name is in relation to one of my cars - thanks for noticing!

Hi,

red zeppelin:

Very informative and quick to respond - you are to be commended. I got it working and all seems good.

Glad to hear it!

red zeppelin:

P.S. - the name is in relation to one of my cars - thanks for noticing!

I wasn't sure if it was a discoloured band or your floated through the sky underneath a balloon shaped object of some sort. I didn't think it was a car.. will have to look it up some time! :)

All the best..

Conor