Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

tharrison:

...importing categories and products will not automatically map the urls :( 50 categories=no problem | 8000+ products? No way!! I'll have to rely on the old meta-tag ways, great content and back links. Oh well.

Good thing is nothing broke when I imported the categories. :clap:

I spoke too soon!! Now the "new page" button on the EZ Pages admin screen is missing. I imported the ezpages info into the table and all the pages show up on the site, yet I cannot get to any of them via the admin screen. FYI...the button was missing before the import of the pages info. I hear great things about this mod, but I'm seeing many bugs in this version :no:

Hi,

tharrison:

Now the "new page" button on the EZ Pages admin screen is missing. I imported the ezpages info into the table and all the pages show up on the site, yet I cannot get to any of them via the admin screen.

Quite simply, you've messed up merging the file.

Fix the admin/ezpages.php file and things will work as expected!

tharrison:

but I'm seeing many bugs in this version :no:

lol no, you're not seeing any bugs, you have simply made a mistake.. there's only one bug in 4.0.8 and it's that the JavaScript selection of the rewrite rule was mistakenly broken between 4.0.7 and 4.0.8 (oops, sorry about that, fixed in next version!).

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi,

VicAvendano:

Is there a way to auto-generate product URLs with the manufacturer name instead of the category it's in? Would love to see this in a future version if not.

Thanks for such a great mod, I moved on over from Simple SEO URLs, best decision I've ever made :clap:

I'm glad you like the software, thanks for the nice comments, makes all the work on it feel that bit more worthwhile!

As for your query, that's already possible but I'm afraid I'm not allowed to talk about it here.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

tharrison:

...importing categories and products will not automatically map the urls :( 50 categories=no problem | 8000+ products? No way!! I'll have to rely on the old meta-tag ways, great content and back links. Oh well.

Good thing is nothing broke when I imported the categories. :clap:The well written readme that comes with this add-on is VERY clear that in order to create URIs for an existing store you will have to edit each category or product manually.

Can you import the URI's into the databse using phpMyAdmin?? Yes you can, but to facilitate this you will need to create a data file with all 8000 products and add the URI's to this data file, then import this data file via phpMyAdmin.

or

as several of us have spoken of FREQUENTLY you can purchase the Ceon URI Mapping Manager from Ceon's website. This was just recently mentioned a few days ago on this support thread (http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1107715&postcount=449) which is why I always say it's a good idea to read through the support thread.. there's ALWAYS good information posted, and most questions are already answered..

The Mappings Manager will do many things including auto generating URIs for existing stores.

tharrison:

I spoke too soon!! Now the "new page" button on the EZ Pages admin screen is missing. I imported the ezpages info into the table and all the pages show up on the site, yet I cannot get to any of them via the admin screen. FYI...the button was missing before the import of the pages info. I hear great things about this mod, but I'm seeing many bugs in this version :no:Not buggy at all.. Conor makes oneof the few mods that I can say is TRULY bug/trouble-free.. Like Conor said, it really sounds like you've made some mistakes with your install.. Roll back to the state BEFORE installing Ceon URI and simply start over making sure you take care to carefully MERGE the core file overwrites to include any modifications you may have already made to these files..

VicAvendano:

Is there a way to auto-generate product URLs with the manufacturer name instead of the category it's in? Would love to see this in a future version if not.

Same answer to you..
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DivaVocals:

as several of us have spoken of FREQUENTLY you can purchase the Ceon URI Mapping Manager from Ceon's website. This was just recently mentioned a few days ago on this support thread (http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1107715&postcount=449) which is why I always say it's a good idea to read through the support thread.. there's ALWAYS good information posted, and most questions are already answered..

The Mappings Manager will do many things including auto generating URIs for existing stores.

VicAvendano:

Thanks for such a great mod, I moved on over from Simple SEO URLs, best decision I've ever made :clap:Nods in agreement:yes:

I have just installed this addition v.4.0.8 to Zen 1.5 and everything seems just perfect - except I get a 404 page when I try to access the product page.

When I run the config check I get this:

Congratulations! All the checks passed!

No problems were found with the settings in the store's configuration files.......

The path to the .htaccess file can't be constructed as there appears to be a problem with the paths in the store's configure.php file. The catalog folder, //, is not the end part of the path to the store: /homedir/dir/public_html/mysite/.

The values for DIR_WS_CATALOG and DIR_FS_CATALOG should be checked and fixed.

I have tried various values in DIR_WS_CATALOG such as /

I also tried adding a slash to the front of /index.php in the rewrite rule.

Excuse this very basic question but I have added your sample rewrite rule to the bottom of includes/.htaccess - is that the right place for it?

Hi,

weisdaclick:

Excuse this very basic question but I have added your sample rewrite rule to the bottom of includes/.htaccess - is that the right place for it?

No excuses needed! You were just getting a bit ahead of yourself.. you need to fix the problems with the configure.php first.. once fixed the software will have been able to tell you to put the rewrite rule in the folder beneath includes folder.. the rewrite rule doesn't go in the .htaccess file in the includes folder.

Send me some (temporary if needs be but with full write permissions) FTP and admin details and I'll fix the configure.php file and put the rule in the .htaccess file it is supposed to go in.

On a fresh Zen Cart installation you normally have to create a new .htaccess file, the rule doesn't go inside any of Zen Cart's existing .htaccess files.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

No excuses needed! You were just getting a bit ahead of yourself.. you need to fix the problems with the configure.php first.. once fixed the software will have been able to tell you to put the rewrite rule in the folder beneath includes folder.. the rewrite rule doesn't go in the .htaccess file in the includes folder.

Send me some (temporary if needs be but with full write permissions) FTP and admin details and I'll fix the configure.php file and put the rule in the .htaccess file it is supposed to go in.

On a fresh Zen Cart installation you normally have to create a new .htaccess file, the rule doesn't go inside any of Zen Cart's existing .htaccess files.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Thanks for the quick response, I can't give you a login as this is not my site, I am just doing some work on it for someone.

Can I send you a copy of the configure.php file?

conor:

Hi,
Sounds like your .htaccess file no longer has a Ceon URI Mapping rewrite rule in it. Or that you've deleted some of the module's files.

If the rewrite rule is still there then reinstalling the software from scratch might help fix whatever you/someone else has changed.

Hope that helps!

All the best...
Conor
ceon

Thank you very much.

It was the .htaccess file. For some unknown reason, the .htaccess file ended up in my admin folder. I think I know who made that error!

I appreciate the quick support.

I am currently using Simple seo URL rewrite mod and having PCI compliant issues when using it. Does anyone have any issues with passing PCI compliance with this MOD?

Also is there anyone that has switched to this mod from SEO URL and managed to map products and data easily to prevent loss of Search engine traffic?

Hi,

weisdaclick:

Thanks for the quick response, I can't give you a login as this is not my site, I am just doing some work on it for someone.

Can I send you a copy of the configure.php file?

No, I won't provide support for free via a backwards and forwards approach, sorry. I offered to help in this way because it would save me time. Life is short!

Good luck in getting this sorted.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi,

jpietrowiak:

I am currently using Simple seo URL rewrite mod and having PCI compliant issues when using it. Does anyone have any issues with passing PCI compliance with this MOD?

We've had no reports of anyone failing PCI scans when their sites have Ceon URI Mapping installed and we're aware of hundreds having passed scans.

jpietrowiak:

Also is there anyone that has switched to this mod from SEO URL and managed to map products and data easily to prevent loss of Search engine traffic?

The software has been fully tested and used to port the URIs from sites previously using Ultimate SEO, Simple SEO and Magic SEO, with the product and category URIs all redirecting just fine, as they are created as historical URIs, which then route to the "current" URIs used by Ceon URI Mapping.

In Ceon URI Mapping any current URI can have an unlimited number of previous historical" URIs pointing to it, it's one of the software's greatest strengths (if I do say so myself ;) ).

All the best..

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

No, I won't provide support for free via a backwards and forwards approach, sorry. I offered to help in this way because it would save me time. Life is short!

Good luck in getting this sorted.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

You seem to have taken offence to my response. I am not sure why this should be the case, I don't control this site, I'm just doing some config on it.

I appreciate your assistance I have now received the login details if you would still like to help - let me know how/where I can send them to you.

Hi,

weisdaclick:

You seem to have taken offence to my response. I am not sure why this should be the case, I don't control this site, I'm just doing some config on it.

No, I didn't at all, sorry, didn't mean to give that impression.

Reading it back myself I can see why you would get that impression.. sorry, it wasn't meant that way.

I was just intending to make it clear that the reason I frequently offer to log into people's servers here - for these sorts of issues - is that actually discussing the problem via forum posts (or even e-mail) normally takes a lot longer than me simply going in, seeing the problem(s) in either/both of the configure files and/or the .htaccess files, fixing whatever needs fixed... and then both of us can move on to doing better things with our day.

Obviously I'd rather not have to do that at all - hence the week's work that went into writing the installation check part of the module - but overall it saves everyone time when I do so.

[The above isn't aimed directly at you, this has now become a general posting/explanation.. hopefully others in future will read it too ;) ]

weisdaclick:

I appreciate your assistance I have now received the login details if you would still like to help - let me know how/where I can send them to you.

Just get in contact via this link, it's the same as the original reply from me, Ceon's standard contact form.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

No, I didn't at all, sorry, didn't mean to give that impression.

Reading it back myself I can see why you would get that impression.. sorry, it wasn't meant that way.

I was just intending to make it clear that the reason I frequently offer to log into people's servers here - for these sorts of issues - is that actually discussing the problem via forum posts (or even e-mail) normally takes a lot longer than me simply going in, seeing the problem(s) in either/both of the configure files and/or the .htaccess files, fixing whatever needs fixed... and then both of us can move on to doing better things with our day.

Obviously I'd rather not have to do that at all - hence the week's work that went into writing the installation check part of the module - but overall it saves everyone time when I do so.

[The above isn't aimed directly at you, this has now become a general posting/explanation.. hopefully others in future will read it too ;) ]

Just get in contact via this link, it's the same as the original reply from me, Ceon's standard contact form.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Ok thanks - no offence meant either way :hug:

I just sent you a message, let me know how you get on.

Thanks again.

hey conor - we remapped our beta website from https://www.bigd.net/apogee to https://www.apogeerockets.com/apogee-beta in order to be able to use SSL.

it was an easy conversion, just changed the config files, used an sql statement to update the URI mappings to read "/apogee-beta/" instead of "/apogee/" and then update our httpd.conf (used instead of .htaccess) file to reflect the same change. except now all of our mappings redirect back to the homepage instead of where they're supposed to go. i am still on 4.0.6 and you said that 4.0.7 fixes the 'going-to-home-page' instead of a 404. but i don't want 404s at all, no matter if they're going to home or a 404 page.

any idea as to why the (seemingly easy) domain change didn't work? i'm maybe guessing that it has to do with our httpd.conf update not being right....

Hi,

apogeerockets:

i am still on 4.0.6

Upgrade lazy. :)

It takes two minutes :)

apogeerockets:

any idea as to why the (seemingly easy) domain change didn't work? i'm maybe guessing that it has to do with our httpd.conf update not being right....

You sound like you've done everything right.. you must have made a typo somewhere or missed out changing the value in one place.

Check the configure and http.conf files again.. don't forget the slash at the front of /apogee-beta/index.php (or /index.php).. that's needed within virtualhost directives.

Hope that helps!

Have a good evening!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

conor:

Check the configure and http.conf files again.. don't forget the slash at the front of /apogee-beta/index.php (or /index.php).. that's needed within virtualhost directives.
ceon

Heh, yup. I swear I changed it to add that slash, too. Maybe I changed the wrong file... i've got a couple versions of the .conf floating around. anyway, thanks much.

conor:

Hi,

No, I didn't at all, sorry, didn't mean to give that impression.

Reading it back myself I can see why you would get that impression.. sorry, it wasn't meant that way.

I was just intending to make it clear that the reason I frequently offer to log into people's servers here - for these sorts of issues - is that actually discussing the problem via forum posts (or even e-mail) normally takes a lot longer than me simply going in, seeing the problem(s) in either/both of the configure files and/or the .htaccess files, fixing whatever needs fixed... and then both of us can move on to doing better things with our day.

Obviously I'd rather not have to do that at all - hence the week's work that went into writing the installation check part of the module - but overall it saves everyone time when I do so.

[The above isn't aimed directly at you, this has now become a general posting/explanation.. hopefully others in future will read it too ;) ]

Just get in contact via this link, it's the same as the original reply from me, Ceon's standard contact form.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Conor, thanks for logging in and sorting out the issue.

I changed one of the //'s to / in one of the configure.php files but not the other. As it didn't work I changed it back to //

It works great now, thanks so much!

:clap::clap::clap:

Hi Conor

I'm just upgrading to 1.5. Have been using the simple SEO url mod for some years and it now seems defunct. Before I leap in and install your mod and remove all the old SSU files I was wondering if it will still be possible for it to create 301 redirects from the old url's given SSU is unlikely to work on 1.5?

Adrian