Hi, Conor!
I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name). But I have one issue:
I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.
So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?
I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

Hi Rafael,

rafcamera:

I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name).

I'm glad you like it! :)

rafcamera:

I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.

Yes, I've seen that before, that's not much fun to have to do!

Since those URIs have IDs in them you can always write a script to parse the URIs and create historical URIs for them, so they redirect to whatever you have defined as the current Ceon URI Mapping.

rafcamera:

So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?

I'm not allowed to talk about other software here I'm afraid.

rafcamera:

I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

I can understand that!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi Nicholas,

niccol:

It's been a while since I installed this - just because I haven't need to. Just wanted to say how impressed I was with the work you have done.

Thanks very much for the nice comments, they help to make all the time spent on the software worthwhile!

niccol:

A lot of nice touches, like the auto-creation of the htaccess file that has the exclusions of other folders built in. Cool.

I'm glad you like that.. current versions mess up when a directory has a space in its name. 4.0.8 has a fix for this and shall be out shortly.

niccol:

A small donation for a pint or two should be with you.
Very impressed as always

Wow, thanks, it's very rare to receive anything, thanks very much for that! :)

Have a nice weekend!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Well, as I say, it has been a while since I used this on an install. It worked pretty well previously and I have always thought it was the most complete of the bunch of re-writing mods.

It is just nice to pick it up again and see how much work you continue to put into it. There are lots of nice features in there.

rafcamera:

Hi, Conor!
I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name). But I have one issue:
I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.
So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?
I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

For all products at once auto feature Conor cannot answer this question here on this support forum as the rules of this forum prohibit the support or discussion of paid modules on the part of the module creator. The particular module you speak of will be a commercial module, and if you want more information on it, you will need to contact Conor via e-mail. (use the contact form on the Ceon website)

niccol:

Well, as I say, it has been a while since I used this on an install. It worked pretty well previously and I have always thought it was the most complete of the bunch of re-writing mods.

It is just nice to pick it up again and see how much work you continue to put into it. There are lots of nice features in there.Most complete and BEST supported.. Unlike the "others".. (yep I said it in my outdoor voice:yes:)

Yep Ceon's Mapping manager is AWESOME!!! Worth the money!!! I am converting a client from a WordPress shop to Zen Cart and I was able to recreate all the old shop URLs and re-direct them to their new Zen Cart equivalents.. Tre cool!!! Conor rocks like Led Zepplin!!!!

rafcamera:

Hi, Conor!
I've tested your add-on, and it seems to be great (I like it's ability to type friendly urls manually, and the fact that the urls will not change if I change a product name). But I have one issue:
I'm using ultimate SEO URLs mod for few years, and my pages indexed by search engined and linked by many sites using those urls generated automatically. I even had to write whole bunch of 301 redirects to solve problems with changed urls.
So, is there a way to automatically map old urls requested to new urls made with your mod, without having 1000s lines of redirects in the .htaccess?
I understand that it is not related to your mod directly, but this will be one of major factors to make decision about switching to your mod since I don't like idea to lose ALL my pages from SE indexes and broke all links from many sites referring to mine...

countrycharm:

For all products at once auto feature Conor cannot answer this question here on this support forum as the rules of this forum prohibit the support or discussion of paid modules on the part of the module creator. The particular module you speak of will be a commercial module, and if you want more information on it, you will need to contact Conor via e-mail. (use the contact form on the Ceon website)

I know about this module, but it will not solve my problem. I don't need just auto built URI's. I need to match any new URI with old URI, especially if it is linked from some forum, blog or any other than search engine source (SE links will be rebuilt over time, but I just can't track all other links and force people to change them).
So, if only way is writing of .htaccess 301 redirect rule for all pages (more that 1000), it will be nightmare and unreasonably large .htaccess file. That is why I want to know if there is more smart way to keep old links working. If not, I'll rather stay with old mod.
Thanks.

rafcamera:

I know about this module, but it will not solve my problem. I don't need just auto built URI's. I need to match any new URI with old URI, especially if it is linked from some forum, blog or any other than search engine source (SE links will be rebuilt over time, but I just can't track all other links and force people to change them).
So, if only way is writing of .htaccess 301 redirect rule for all pages (more that 1000), it will be nightmare and unreasonably large .htaccess file. That is why I want to know if there is more smart way to keep old links working. If not, I'll rather stay with old mod.
Thanks.We all understood what you are saying and we are saying that the module which we cannot speak of here:laugh: solves this issue for you..

Also you know that Google's webmaster tools can provide you a list of internal and external links associated with your site.. You can easily export this list to a CSV file.. Since all the URI's for this mod are stored in the database, you can easily take this list and build out the mapping records to map from the old URIs to the new without creating a .htaccess 301 redirect rule for all pages..

This makes sense, thank :-) Will rethink once again :-)

rafcamera:

This makes sense, thank :-) Will rethink once again :-)Sure.. The google webmaster tools is very helpful if you decide to simply create a script to import you mappings into the Ceon tables.. The point is there are some fairly painless ways to accomplish this on a ONE TIME basis.. You won't regret the conversion to Ceon URI Mapping.. This IMHO is one of the BEST of breed for this class of apps for Zen Cart..
(BTW, are any of the "others" v1.5 ready??? Hmmmmmmmmm.. Haven't checked in on any of them in a while, but my guess would be NO..:smile:)

Another (kinda related) example on how the Google webmaster tools will help, I recently had a site which as converting from Joomla to WordPress.. I had to re-direct all those old Joomla URLs to the new WordPress equivalents.. I got the full list of links from the Google webmasters tools and created a spreadsheet that I imported to create the old to new mappings (there is a nice redirect plugin for WP that stores the redirect mappings in a table)..

I just installed the module in my 1.5 version store that I am working to set up and when I go to the admin panel ONLY the "configuration" tab shows.
None of the other tabs, Catalog, modules, customers, etc. display and as a result I can not proceed with the configuration.
I followed the installation instructions to the letter, or so I thought, looked thru the FAQs and tried searching the forum also for solution but I had no luck.
I am sure I missed something, somewhere, and I am a very newbie on this zen-cart setting up business and I would appreciate if someone has an answer to my issue, in not extremely technical terms!
Thanks in advance for your help.

Van

Hi Van,

loggades:

when I go to the admin panel ONLY the "configuration" tab shows.
None of the other tabs, Catalog, modules, customers, etc. display

Unfortunately it sounds like you've messed up your Zen Cart admin somehow.

Are you sure this happened just after you attempted to install Ceon URI Mapping?

Did you do several things at the same time, installing other modules perhaps?

If attempting to install Ceon URI Mapping was the last thing you did then I'd suggest carrying out the installation from start to finish all over again.

I don't think that will have been the source of your problem though, the entire admin menu shouldn't ever disappear!

Hope you can get this sorted.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor,

Thanks for the quick reply!
Your module was the first module I have tried to install and there were no other changes made.
In fact, after I installed and noticed the proble, I re-uploaded the original "includes" and "admin" folders that I had backed up prior to installation, (overriding the ones with the module installed), and the admin panel was restored to normal.
I went thru and installed the module again and the same problem showed up.
Apparently I goofed somewhere, I just can't figure out what I have missed.
Thanks again for your reply.

Van

Hi,

loggades:

I re-uploaded the original "includes" and "admin" folders that I had backed up prior to installation, (overriding the ones with the module installed), and the admin panel was restored to normal.

I've a feeling you may have "mixed" the store's includes folder and admin folders together. I'm really not sure, but I would do a full comparison using software such as Beyond Compare with a fresh installation of Zen Cart, to see if you have placed some files where you shouldn't have.

Once you're sure you've not mixed things up in the filesystem, try installing the Ceon URI Mapping again.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Using Zen 1.5

I installed Ceon URI on my main site shown below

www.livewiseindustries.com

Just realized that because of the .htaccess modifications, I cannot access my addon site shown below

http://www.reddotfirearms.com

My question is: Is there a quick fix or code I can add to the .htaccess file to help it find my addon site?

The .htaccess code is:

BEGIN CEON URI MAPPING REWRITE RULE

RewriteEngine On

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-z]{2,5}$ [NC]

Don't rewrite any URIs for some, popular specific file format extensions,

which are not covered by main file extension condition above

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(mp3|mp4|h264)$ [NC]

Don't rewrite any URIs for some specific file format extensions,

which are not covered by main file extension condition above

Uncomment the following line to apply this condition! (Remove the # at the start of the next line)

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.(3gp|3g2|h261|h263|mj2|mjp2|mp4v|mpg4|m1v|m2v|m4u|f4v|m4v|3dml)$ [NC]

Don't rewrite admin directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/AdminLW [NC]

Don't rewrite editors directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/editors/ [NC]

Don't rewrite wasatchdefense directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wasatchdefense/ [NC]

Don't rewrite cgi-bin directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/ [NC]

Don't rewrite reddotfirearms directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/reddotfirearms/ [NC]

Don't rewrite .smileys directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/.smileys/ [NC]

Don't rewrite livewisenation directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/livewisenation/ [NC]

Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (its index.php)

RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]

END CEON URI MAPPING REWRITE RULE

Any help I can get will be much appreciated

Ok... I figured it out. I simply needed to install Ceon URI mapping to the addon site. That took care of the problem.

Hi,

This isn't really the correct place to be asking such a question as this is a rewrite rule/htaccess question, however..

I think if you add the following condition to that rewrite rule in your .htaccess file it may help.

If not then please look on the internet for information about hosting subdomains and rewrite rules.

# Don't interfere with subdomain www.reddotfirearms.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.reddotfirearms\.com)?$
```All the best...

Conor
[ceon](http://dev.ceon.net)

I have an older version of the mod on one of my sites.
it has an area where you can set up files to exclude.
i.e. tell Ceon to ignore.

I have recently installed the latest version on another site.
This option seems to have gone?
or has it moved?

HI,

Cookiepus:

I have recently installed the latest version on another site.
This option seems to have gone?
or has it moved?

The software was completely rewritten, with lots of major improvements in how it works "in the background". Subsequently the Exclude Files functionality is no longer needed.. so it's gone altogether, making the software even easier to install and use. :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon