Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

conor:

Hi,
At least you know it's not normal behaviour or a problem with the software!
ceon

thanks. i figured it was my fault, but wanted to double check before i tried troubleshooting something that wasn't actually broken. i've got so much custom coding in this site that i'm not surprised something got messed up somewhere. now the fun begins cracks knuckles

Could use a hand with something. The CEON URI mod is working perfectly with a fresh install of zen-cart 1.5.

My problem is getting it to work alongside a mobile theme/modification. Brief explanation of the mod I'm using: detects browser agent. If found to be a mobile browser, sends all requests through "mobile.php?main_page". The mod does this by detecting mobile websites as another "language" and serves up the mobile template relating to that language.

I'm not too bothered about re-writing mobile URLS. Would it be possible to bypass the CEON module altogether for all URLS/links containing mobile.php? I've played around with .htaccess for a while and haven't made any progress.

Thanks!

Edit:---------------------
Also, awesome work with this module. My only past experience with URI modules was SSU. While this did the job well, it was a pain to install and update. Your instructions were very clear and core-file changes are minimal. Thank you!

Hi,

Mark_88:

My problem is getting it to work alongside a mobile theme/modification.

You're the second person to ask about this recently..

Mark_88:

Brief explanation of the mod I'm using: detects browser agent. If found to be a mobile browser, sends all requests through "mobile.php?main_page". The mod does this by detecting mobile websites as another "language" and serves up the mobile template relating to that language.

That's a really dumb modification this "theme" makes. It's overriding Zen Cart's usage of the core file name "index.php". Bad coding!

What is this theme/template you are talking about? The developers need to write it properly instead of breaking Zen Cart.

Instead of redirecting people to mobile.php, I immediately identified for the other person who contacted me about this, that when this theme detects that the site is being used on a mobile browser, it should set a flag that will have index.php load in mobile.php...

Instead of calling mobile.php, at the top of index.php the developer should add:

if (CHECK FOR MOBILE VERSION) {
 require('mobile.php');

 exit;
}

This "theme" developer will have to come up with a way to have Zen Cart know that the mobile version is being used..and put it in place of "CHECK FOR MOBILE VERSION" above.

If you follow my drift?

Of course you/they also need to get any code that is trying to load "mobile.php" to use "index.php", if there is any.

Hope that helps.

This isn't really a Ceon URI Mapping issue, but an issue with this other module not using index.php so while I'd appreciate it if you could keep me up to date here, this isn't the place to discuss in details any modifications to the code, a new thread would be better.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Wow, that was a speedy reply! Thanks.

The template is from a company named "Algozone". Link here. I do catch your drift, seems I'll have to have a long think about modifying the mobile mod to get it working for my store.

Unfortunately the developers "free 30 day support" only really includes the installation of the modification, not actual "support" to get it working ;)

One quick question regarding your URI Mappings Manager. How time consuming is it to import my "current" SSU URLS into the database so they don't appear as broken when upgrading/switching to CEON?

Cheers

Mark_88:

How time consuming is it to import my "current" SSU URLS into the database so they don't appear as broken when upgrading/switching to CEON?

CheersNot that time consuming at all if you are willing to give a data import through phpAdmin a shot.. There's a handy Google Webmasters tool that can provide you with a list of all the URLS they have in their databases for your site.. You can export this list to CSV and create an import file to map the old URLs to the new URIs in this mod, and then import them into the Ceon URI table.. You can also invest in Ceon's URI Mapping Manager (available on the Ceon site).. It's well worth the money to make this conversion easier.

Hi,

Mark_88:

Wow, that was a speedy reply! Thanks.

Computers, eh? :)

Mark_88:

The template is from a company named "Algozone". Link here. I do catch your drift, seems I'll have to have a long think about modifying the mobile mod to get it working for my store.

Actually, the changes I pointed out in that last post should be very simple indeed.

Which is part of the reason I'm surprised this template designer took the approach they did. Creating a mobile.php file to replace index.php was the wrong way to go.

Mark_88:

Unfortunately the developers "free 30 day support" only really includes the installation of the modification, not actual "support" to get it working ;)

Free "30 day" support? 30 days, that's it? Wow. Generous! :|

Suggest to them about using require('mobile.php') instead of calling mobile.php?main_page and they may realise how much easier that makes things for their customers and therefore them.

They'd be silly not to listen to you. Why create support issues unnecessarily? :)

Mark_88:

One quick question regarding your URI Mappings Manager. How time consuming is it to import my "current" SSU URLS into the database so they don't appear as broken when upgrading/switching to CEON?

Practically instantaneous but can't talk about that here I'm afraid.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Practically instantaneous but can't talk about that here I'm afraid.But I can.. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

**Mark88: **PLEASE invest in Ceon's URI Mapping Manager (available on the Ceon site).. It's well worth the money to make this conversion a BREEZE for you.

Hi,
I was trying to find a solution to my problem but I haven't actually found anything that would work for me. I hope I am not duplicating any previous posts, but I did't find anything similar.

I installed the SEO URI Mapping like 2 days ago on a multi lingual website https://www.floridaherbalpharmacy.com and I noticed that the prices are not working for Serbian version - I mean all the products have their nice and shiny prices in English, but when I switch to Serbian there is no trace of them - they disappear. When I add a product to cart it's price is 0.

It started to happen after installing the SEO module so I decided to check the files to see which one caused the error - I removed the files from the admin directory and replaced them with the old ones but it didn't solve the problem. Could anyone please indicate the right track to fix it? I would be extremely happy.
Regards

Hello
sorry if this has been asked before but....
been using the mod successfully for about a year.
But for some of my products i need to use an alternative product type.
in this case the built in 'product-music'
the Ceon mapping options dont appear in the options for these products.
Im afraid in not on the latest version of the mod. i tried to find out which version but couldn't.
im on zen 1.3.8
id rather not have to re-install if i can avoid it

Thank You
Cookie

Hiya Connor,

Long time no talk, hope all is well. :smile:

I still have my Ceon URI Mapping Manager, it is working great and has been a huge time saver. I am still on ZC 139h, have not upgraded yet.

Anyway, ran into a weird quirk today. For some reason my Contact Us page won't accept the Ceon generated URL. The contact page is managed by EZpages as an internal link.

I ticked the box to have the URI auto-generated for this EZ-Page. I went to the store to test the link and the URL was still:
http://www.MYSITE.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us

When I went back to the admin to try again, now the auto-generated URI (/Contact_Us) appears in the box as if it is working!

But it doesn't work.

All my other EZpages obey the Ceon URI, but this is the only one that is an Internal Link.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Mike

I don't see anything about installing on a local host, with the .htaccess file installed i get an internal server error no matter what i change. Without the .htaccess installed i can go to a product and i am told the URI has changed but when i go to the product it shows like http://localhost/audio-video/banana-binding-post-black-ring but i get a blank page. Any product that has not been changed displays okay. Will this not work on localhost using wamp ?
Thank you

windsurfer:

I don't see anything about installing on a local host, with the .htaccess file installed i get an internal server error no matter what i change. Without the .htaccess installed i can go to a product and i am told the URI has changed but when i go to the product it shows like http://localhost/audio-video/banana-binding-post-black-ring but i get a blank page. Any product that has not been changed displays okay. Will this not work on localhost using wamp ?
Thank you

Where is your .htaccess file located, is it in htdocs/the root of your wamp server or within the zencart folder?

I have Ceon's mod working perfectly on a XAMPP Windows install. Did you grab the correct .htaccess configuration from the CEON configuration page on zen-cart admin?

Hi Mark
From what i understand the .htaccess file has to go into the root of the site.
Checking i see there are 14 .htaccess files in the zencart installation but no .htaccess file in the root.
I tried the .htaccess file in the root , root/docs and in the admin(renamed) and none of those will work. I did do an installation check and reports okay
a configuration check tells me "Database and configuration are up to date, using version 4.0.7" i did grab the generated code from the installation check and also tried with the /index.php

Hi,

Cookiepus:

Im afraid in not on the latest version of the mod. i tried to find out which version but couldn't.
im on zen 1.3.8
id rather not have to re-install if i can avoid it

I'm afraid support is only given here to those on the latest version.

You'll have to upgrade. You'll be glad you did in the long run, why make life hard on yourself? :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi Mike,

Feznizzle:

Long time no talk, hope all is well. :smile:

Thanks, things are pretty bad but life goes on.. Almost got all the new Zen Cart releases ready to go after two years.. at last! :)

Feznizzle:

I still have my Ceon URI Mapping Manager, it is working great and has been a huge time saver. I am still on ZC 139h, have not upgraded yet.

Anyway, ran into a weird quirk today. For some reason my Contact Us page won't accept the Ceon generated URL. The contact page is managed by EZpages as an internal link.

You can't use EZ-Page internal links on a site that uses static URIs.

It's as simple as that!

You must delete the internal link.

Internal links are a kludge that a fresh version of Zen Cart needs because it uses dynamic URIs. With a site using Ceon URI Mapping - and therefore static URIs - you don't need to do anything like that anymore. You can just create a URI for the contact us page (as you've done in UMM) and then use that URI in your links.

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi Conner
Are you talking to me and if so, upgrade to what ?

Hi,

First off, yes, the software is fine to use on a local installation. It doesn't matter where you use it, it works on all server setups if you have configure the server properly to support rewrite rules.

windsurfer:

From what i understand the .htaccess file has to go into the root of the site.

The installation check tells you where to put the file.. which for most should be the root of the site.

windsurfer:

Checking i see there are 14 .htaccess files in the zencart installation but no .htaccess file in the root.

Create the .htaccess file wherever Ceon URI Mapping tells you to.

There is a bug in current versions which generate a sample rewrite rule that is broken if you have any directories that have a space in them.

I suspect you do?

If so, put a backslash in front of the space(s) in the directory name(s) in the reewrite rule [e.g. change "my dir" to "my\ dir".

4.0.8 will be out soon with a fix for that.

If that's not it then I've afraid you've simply set things up wrong, the software works fine with WAMP.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

windsurfer:

Hi Conner
Are you talking to me and if so, upgrade to what ?

Not unless you've changed your name I wasn't ;)

I always quote the person I'm talking about, to try and keep things "threaded".. as you'll have seen by now I've written to you too. :)

Oh, and my name is Conor, not Conner. :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi Conor,

Sad to hear that things are tough. :schmoll:

Thanks for the response, though I am bummed. I guess I don't mind that one link being dynamic. I've just got to figure out a way to grant access to spiders to that page.

I check my meta tags using this site:
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html

For some reason that site tells me that spiders are not allowed to crawl my contact page:
http://www.MYSITE.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us

I've looked at my robot.txt and .htaccess and cannot figure out what is blocking spiders.

Guess I'm off to the forums to figure it out.

Thanks again for all you do. I'm sending you positive vibrations from the states!

~Mike

Hi Mike,

Feznizzle:

Thanks for the response, though I am bummed. I guess I don't mind that one link being dynamic.

I'm confused.. you don't have to have it as dynamic.. in fact, you should already have generated a static URI for it? (If not do so now :) ).

Feznizzle:

I've just got to figure out a way to grant access to spiders to that page.

? Simply have a link to the contact us page somewhere on your site?! Easy!

All Zen Cart sites should already have a link to main_page=contact_us and Ceon URI Mapping will automatically use your URI mapping for a main_page of contact_us in place of that standard dynamic ZC URI.

Feznizzle:

I check my meta tags using this site:
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html

I've never used an SEO analysis tool so I'm afraid I don't know what you are expecting to see through the use of that tool.

Feznizzle:

I've looked at my robot.txt and .htaccess and cannot figure out what is blocking spiders.

I've no idea.. could the tool itself be at fault? Can you find that page yourself by searching for it in a search engine? If so then this tool is just wrong.

Feznizzle:

Guess I'm off to the forums to figure it out.

Sorry I can't be of more help, I hope you find a "solution" IF this indeed is a problem!

Feznizzle:

Thanks again for all you do. I'm sending you positive vibrations from the states!

Thanks, I'm glad you like Ceon's software, I hope it helps your site do even better! ;)

All the best..

Conor
ceon