Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

Hi Conor, how are things, hope you are everything going well for you.

Just notice issue with the mapping. All my links were mapping according to to the prod/category/page name but all of a sudden they are now followed by the zenid?? not good can't understand why this has all of a sudden happened. Haven't installed anything new in the past few days. Hope you can help.

jagall:

Hi Conor, how are things, hope you are everything going well for you.

Just notice issue with the mapping. All my links were mapping according to to the prod/category/page name but all of a sudden they are now followed by the zenid?? not good can't understand why this has all of a sudden happened. Haven't installed anything new in the past few days. Hope you can help.

Hi Conor, okay I'll say ignore previous post as it is now back to normal only showing the url mapping and not adding on the zenid, that is very strange. I notice that while it is okay now in firefox it is showing the zenid in IE. I have cleared cookies in both browsers.

Hi Steve,

conor:

Please do send login details so I can debug the server environment.. may as well have Ceon URI Mapping cope with such broken servers, can only be good to be as compatible as possible!

If you don't want to send login details to help with this then please instead add

phpinfo(); to the source, just after:

function CeonURIMappingHandlerBase()
 {
  global $PHP_SELF, $messageStack;

so that it becomes:

function CeonURIMappingHandlerBase()
{
global $PHP_SELF, $messageStack;
 
phpinfo(); 

And send me the output via http://dev.ceon.net/contact-us

I should then be able to work out how to cope with servers like yours without you needing to do anything yourself.

Your support would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

I have a problem. I am currently trying to set up zencart v1.5 in a test folder. I had been using Ultimate SEO mod, but I want to switch to yours. I installed it and it works (I realize I'll have to manually change all the old product links) - HOWEVER! I was reading through this thread and saw you say that setting this up in a subfolder (with the intention of switching it over to the root dir later) is bad and will just store all the wrong links in the database because of the subdirectory - and I see that you recommend to test in a subdomain. which makes sense. SO - i just switched my zencart config files to use a subdomain instead. BUT now I can't access the admin folder, because my subdomain is not SSL - and zencart v1.5 does not allow admin access without a secure connection. How can I set up all my old links in the Ceon product mapping if I can't access the admin in the testing environment as a subdomain and can only do it as a directory? :(

I hope my problem makes sense...

gorie:

I have a problem. I am currently trying to set up zencart v1.5 in a test folder. I had been using Ultimate SEO mod, but I want to switch to yours. I installed it and it works (I realize I'll have to manually change all the old product links) - HOWEVER! I was reading through this thread and saw you say that setting this up in a subfolder (with the intention of switching it over to the root dir later) is bad and will just store all the wrong links in the database because of the subdirectory - and I see that you recommend to test in a subdomain. which makes sense. SO - i just switched my zencart config files to use a subdomain instead. BUT now I can't access the admin folder, because my subdomain is not SSL - and zencart v1.5 does not allow admin access without a secure connection. How can I set up all my old links in the Ceon product mapping if I can't access the admin in the testing environment as a subdomain and can only do it as a directory? :(

I hope my problem makes sense...The part I highlighted is NOT true.. You DO NOT need SSL to access the Zen Cart v1.5 admin.. Suggest heading over to v1.5 support threads and getting your base Zen Cart install all worked out first..

DivaVocals:

The part I highlighted is NOT true.. You DO NOT need SSL to access the Zen Cart v1.5 admin.. Suggest heading over to v1.5 support threads and getting your base Zen Cart install all worked out first..

omg, ok in that case OOPS! - i thought i remember seeing something about that. my mistake! i'll play around more and figure it out! thanks

OK I got that all sorted out. but now my new problem is that it seems it's not recognizing the .htaccess in my /test/ dir (which i was hoping would be treated as the root for the subdomain) because i am getting 404 errors

before, i was able to put my .htaccess in the root directory and since the /test/ dir was added to the rewrite in .htaccess so it worked fine and did not interfere with my live site while testing.

however. i can't place it in the root anymore because that will throw off stuff for my live site if the .htaccess rewrite is written for a root (to work on the subdomain) instead of with the /test/ added (which wouldn't make sense if i am trying to test this in the subdomain environment)

not sure what to do about this?

correction:
the .htaccess is working properly where it's at.
i can create new products and the autogenerated URI works.
but i can't do the manual entry to old products like:
/product-color-p-184.html
doing that i get 404 errors...
it tries taking me to the right url but i get a 404.
(it was working before in the directory but as subdomain it has problems)
so it's only half working.

gorie:

correction:
the .htaccess is working properly where it's at.
i can create new products and the autogenerated URI works.
but i can't do the manual entry to old products like:
/product-color-p-184.html
doing that i get 404 errors...
it tries taking me to the right url but i get a 404.
(it was working before in the directory but as subdomain it has problems)
so it's only half working.

conor:

Hi,

Don't use a subdirectory for test sites.

Use a subdomain.

There's your quick answer. :)

If you search the thread you will indeed find I've said this quite a few times here.

It's the only solution I will advocate so just do ahead and move to a subdomain instead of a subdirectory. Subdirectories for test sites are unprofessional.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

If you are using a test sub-directory Conor has always said not to do it that way.

The "External link URL" doesn't work in my ezpages. I have it defined but the site is just displaying my blank ezpage without redirecting.

I'm using 3.6.3. Will upgrading to version 4 fix this?

I'm using this ezpage as a landing page, with Google Analytics parameters defined in the url, so if possible I'd like to keep it that way in order to be able to track visits.

Also, I don't see anything in the docs about upgrading from 3.6.3. Is there anything I should be aware of to avoid screwing up my store or losing all my existing URI mappings?

Hi,

How are you?

It's been a while!

fakeDecoy:

The "External link URL" doesn't work in my ezpages. I have it defined but the site is just displaying my blank ezpage without redirecting.

EZ-Page external and internal URIs are not compatible with a site using static URIs. THey are old kludges for Zen Cart's dynamic URI functionality.

You should instead simply use appropriate URIs/redirects.

As for upgrading.. full instructions are included with every version, for every previous version.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Thanks for the quick reply! Your mod is generally working fantastically. I wish the zc team would get with the times and make this a core functionality. From my results, and from examining my competitors, it appears that friendly URLs help organic keyword rankings a ton.

Do you mean adding redirects to htaccess?

Finally found the upgrade instructions. Didn't see it before.

Hi,

fakeDecoy:

Thanks for the quick reply! Your mod is generally working fantastically.

I hope it's more than "generally" ;)

fakeDecoy:

I wish the zc team would get with the times and make this a core functionality.

Choice is good too.. but obviously you won't find me disagreeing which one is best. :)

fakeDecoy:

From my results, and from examining my competitors, it appears that friendly URLs help organic keyword rankings a ton.

The main thing by far is content, there's no point having any URI at all without good content.

However, on two sites with the exact same content, static URIs have been proven to raise rankings. Which of course makes sense as keywords in URIs are useful information.

The primary reason for this module still remains easy to read, remember and type URIs but the SEO benefits are a nice bonus.

fakeDecoy:

Do you mean adding redirects to htaccess?

It depends what you want to do exacly. You can add Rewrite Rules to the .htaccess file.

You can also have Ceon URI Mapping redirect to an "Alternate URI".. that requires modifying the database record manually, using software such as PHPMyAdmin.

Just enter the URI you want to direct to in the "alternate_uri" field for the EZ-Page and a redirection code, like 301.

Hope that helps!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hello,

I've installed the Ceon URI Mapping mod and it appears to function as intended except:

my zencart installation is sitting in a directory named catalog:

www.example.co.uk/catalog/

I would have expected I could map the "catalog" out to leave:

www.example.co.uk/
and
www.example.co.uk/cat1/subcat1
etc

But I only seem to be able to get it working with "catalog" still there - the auto-generated mapping for a category inserts "/catalog/cat1"

Am I expecting too much or have I made a gross error??

Many thanks in advance,

Jonathan

Hi,

AtomicWorkshop:

But I only seem to be able to get it working with "catalog" still there - the auto-generated mapping for a category inserts "/catalog/cat1"

The auto-generation with the standard edition does indeed always include the value for DIR_WS_CATALOG.

If you don't want to have /catalog at the start you will have to manually enter URIs.

On the product pages you can click "preview" then copy the part of the auto-generated URI you want, go back, paste it in and then untick auto-generate, then click "preview" and "update".

For all other URIs you'll either have to auto-generate them and then go back and edit them or enter the URI you want in the first place.

Alternatively, you could move the store from "/catalog" to /.. an easy change in the configure.php files (although this will break any current links to the site of course).

Hope that helps!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

If you don't want to have /catalog at the start you will have to manually enter URIs.

Thanks for extremely quick response!

I don't have a problem manually entering the URI's, but when I do that i.e.change
/catalog/cat1
to
/cat1
I get a...
Not Found

The requested URL /collection was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

so I think I'm missing something else...additionally, my home page still displays as www.example.co.uk/catalog

Thanks in advance!

Jonathan

Hi,

AtomicWorkshop:

The requested URL /collection was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

You really shouldn't use /catalog in my opinion, but if you want to persevere with that, then you need to make sure the rewrite rule isn't applying only for /catalog as it will by standard, giving you the 404s you are seeing (adjust the rule to **not **"only rewrite the /catalog dir").

AtomicWorkshop:

additionally, my home page still displays as www.example.co.uk/catalog

It always will. That, you can't change with the way you have set things up. You are choosing to have it as /catalog.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

OK Im lost here, I got it all working fine except it wants the address to have a capital in the Cart ... example...

the way its supposed to be

http://c51creations.com/cart/test

the only way it works :cry:

http://c51creations.com/Cart/Test

now I did change the make all capital so the Test could be test not the issue... the issue is the Cart that one is cart

I cant seem to find anywhere that anyone else has this issue and Ive gone over everything I can think of, please help

Hi,

harddrive:

I cant seem to find anywhere that anyone else has this issue and Ive gone over everything I can think of, please help

That's because I don't think anyone has ever had the problem before!

Send me admin and FTP details for your site and I'll take a look when I get a chance, to see what you've done wrong. You at the very least have messed up your configure.php file.

All the best..

Conor
ceon