Ceon URI Mapping v4.x

conor:

Hi,

How are you?

Yes, you will have to re-generate the URIs...
ceon

I'm well Conor and thanks for the quick reply. I suspected that would be the case, but wanted to make sure before I fiddled about for fear of short circuiting the whole kit and caboodle ;o)

Kind regards,
Doug

I am sorry if this has been answered i could not find it or missed it

I have this on a site it's amazing it was all new and only 70 skus.

However I want to add it to another site and it has 5,000 SKU's. Needless to say I don't want to manually open each one and save it thus generating the new address.

PLUS I don't want to lose the settings as the db is updated using ezpopulate and those updates are frequent.

Am I missing something or is there add on software to automate this process because I am scared to even start that one.

JimmyV:

I am sorry if this has been answered i could not find it or missed it

I have this on a site it's amazing it was all new and only 70 skus.

However I want to add it to another site and it has 5,000 SKU's. Needless to say I don't want to manually open each one and save it thus generating the new address.

PLUS I don't want to lose the settings as the db is updated using ezpopulate and those updates are frequent.

Am I missing something or is there add on software to automate this process because I am scared to even start that one.

Read this post, it was posted a few pages back.

DivaVocals:

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.

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..

conor:

Yes, you will have to re-generate the URIs, the current ones will then become historical URIs, so they will redirect to the new ones, which is very handy. You can just turn on some music and get clicking, it does take time but you only have to do it once more by the sounds of things. I can't talk about alternative ways here.I'll be happy to share the information for you..:hug:

soxophoneplayer:

My question: if I make the changes above, will I have to manually rename my url's for the categories, and/or for the product pages? (The former representling a little work, but the latter representing a lot of work!)

See this post: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1108420#post1108420

I thought the mapping was the answer. Thank You.

I am hoping someone can help me with this and that I'm not posting something someone else did. I apologize if I have.

I have a site where the 1st thing is a wordpress blog. So in the root directory I have rewrites for the blog in the .htaccess. The Zen Cart store is a couple of subdirectories under the main directory.

I have added the Ceon rewrite statements to the end of that .htaccess but they don't work (I get a 404). If I remove the blog rewrite stuff then the categories will work (the product pages don't, the product pages work, but the links are not canonical).

Anyone have an idea for a resolution?

Thanks for the assistance.

Hi,

JBattin:

I have added the Ceon rewrite statements to the end of that .htaccess but they don't work (I get a 404).

Stop wordpress overriding the Ceon rewrite rule by adding an exclusion condition to its rule (for the shop directory/URI parts), or, since you are running the store at least one level down, put the Ceon rewrite rule before the wordpress one, whatever it is (never used WP myself, it's a [poor man's] competitor to Ceon's aarck/aawe system ;) ), and add an exclusion for wordpress' URIs.

JBattin:

If I remove the blog rewrite stuff then the categories will work (the product pages don't, the product pages work, but the links are not canonical).

That's a mistake by you then. You've missed something when installing Ceon URI Mapping or your template is missing the necessary Zen Cart code to use it - the $canonicalLink stuff (on 1.3.8 this is easily missed as html_header.php also needs modified in that ancient version).

Make sure you have the Ceon URI Mapping modified version of init_canonical.php in the includes/init_includes/overrides directory.

Hopefully the above is enough to get you sorted.

If not then you should install the software from scratch again to fix whatever you missed.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

conor:

whatever it is (never used WP myself, it's a [poor man's] competitor to Ceon's aarck/aawe system ;) )THIS caught my attention.. Hmmmm do tell sir.. do tell.. :laugh:

Hi,

Hope you're well Diva.. not long to St Paddy's day! :cheers:

DivaVocals:

THIS caught my attention.. Hmmmm do tell sir.. do tell.. :laugh:

lol another time and another place I think.. :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

Hope you're well Diva.. not long to St Paddy's day! :cheers:Happy St Paddy's Day to you to sir!! :cheers:

conor:

lol another time and another place I think.. :)No fair!!!!! :laugh::laugh: I wanna know the secret!!! :laugh::laugh:

DivaVocals:

Happy St Paddy's Day to you to sir!! :cheers:

No fair!!!!! :laugh::laugh: I wanna know the secret!!! :laugh::laugh:

Wishing you two a Happy St Paddy's Day to. :bigups:
Yea I want to know too the secret... Conor

My website of course have the basic zen-cart urls, i would like to add the ceon to my site. My question: my website is connected to a warehouse, so when a new product comes out, get discontinued, stock changes or any other info, it automatically updates the products. Will CEON still work with this type of website with a data feed from a warehouse?

Just wondering if anybody has this mod installed along with Magic Zoom and working properly ?

Hi,

gpsupps10:

My website of course have the basic zen-cart urls, i would like to add the ceon to my site. My question: my website is connected to a warehouse, so when a new product comes out, get discontinued, stock changes or any other info, it automatically updates the products. Will CEON still work with this type of website with a data feed from a warehouse?

You have a custom script to update your products. Just update it to include the generation of URIs, shouldn't be hard.

Happy St Paddy's day everyone! No more posts from me for a while! :happy:

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi,
I am still running zencart 1.3.8 version can I install the latest CEON add-on on it.
Also my site is under mysite.com/estore . Is it best for ranking purpose to put it in root directory?

Thanks a lot for your contribution and answer.

I have the same problem as was mentioned in previous post - http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1085247&postcount=235

The URI's on EZpages links show as &zenidXXX rather than ?zenidXXX, creating a "Page Not Found" error.

I am using the EZpages links as side menu items as they are entered on the EZpages admin section as Internal links, with no content.

I have one EZpage with content, and this is showing up with the proper ?zenidXXX link.

However, I have the Testimonials Manager module on my site, and those links show up as http://www.teafromtaiwan.com/index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager&testimonials_id=47&zenid=9tr8c4budfolh8gblqv8132rv6, and work correctly.

You can see that this link uses &zenidXXX - and there is no error with this link.

So why do my EZpages links create an error, and the testimonial page not.

And can anyone suggest a fix for this?

http://www.teafromtaiwan.com - EZpages links are found in the side menu.

zc 1.5 and ceon 4.0.8

paul3648:

I have the same problem as was mentioned in previous post - http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1085247&postcount=235

The URI's on EZpages links show as &zenidXXX rather than ?zenidXXX, creating a "Page Not Found" error.

I am using the EZpages links as side menu items as they are entered on the EZpages admin section as Internal links, with no content.

I have one EZpage with content, and this is showing up with the proper ?zenidXXX link.

However, I have the Testimonials Manager module on my site, and those links show up as http://www.teafromtaiwan.com/index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager&testimonials_id=47&zenid=9tr8c4budfolh8gblqv8132rv6, and work correctly.

You can see that this link uses &zenidXXX - and there is no error with this link.

So why do my EZpages links create an error, and the testimonial page not.

And can anyone suggest a fix for this?

http://www.teafromtaiwan.com - EZpages links are found in the side menu.

zc 1.5 and ceon 4.0.8

Two things.. Conor posted the answer to the problem you posted:

conor:

Hi Damian,

The problem in the first URI is that the link is being built with an ampersand (&) instead of a question mark.

This doesn't happen with a standard Zen Cart and Ceon URI Mapping so the problem must be caused by some modification on the respective bit of your site.

Find and fix that and things will be fine..

Look for Zen ID being manually added on with an & in the template source and pass the zenid as a parameter to zen_href_link instead.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

2nd it's been said several times in this support thread and I believe in the readme as well that you can't use internal links for EZ Pages with Ceon URI.. BTW, it would help if you gave a specific URL for an example of the issue you are speaking of.. I spent a little time "hunting" for an example and don't see the issue.. It would be easier for folks who want to help if you didn't make folks "hunt" through your site looking for an example of the issue you are experiencing..

Thanks for your reply. I did indeed see Conor's reply about finding the module that is creating a hardcoded "&". I have been looking for this, but the thing that is confusing me is why the Testimonials Manager can get away with using &zenid, while EZ pages cannot.

DivaVocals:

2nd it's been said several times in this support thread and I believe in the readme as well that you can't use internal links for EZ Pages with Ceon URI.. BTW, it would help if you gave a specific URL for an example of the issue you are speaking of.. I spent a little time "hunting" for an example and don't see the issue.. It would be easier for folks who want to help if you didn't make folks "hunt" through your site looking for an example of the issue you are experiencing..

You have to delete the zenid cookie in order to see what's happening. Here is an internal link for an EZ page that creates a ?zenid: http://www.teafromtaiwan.com/reward-points - so it seems that internal links for EZ pages DO work sometimes. The only difference between this link and my other menu links is that this EZ page takes its content from the EZ page admin panel, whereas the other links point to content created by the "About Us Page" addon - http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=182

Here is an EZpage internal link creates a &zenid link : http://www.teafromtaiwan.com/shop/loose-tea

Here is a Testimonials link: http://www.teafromtaiwan.com/index.php?main_page=display_all_testimonials&zenid=go6r96kc3boqv20p1q4lr1b6n3

So the testimonials link is creating "&zenid" - but perhaps the difference here is the question mark after index.php - "index.php?"

Anyway ... I was basically looking for an explanation about why some EZpage links work correctly and not others. I can convert them to external pages, but I think there should be a way for the zenid to be added to these links.

Addendum to above:
My mistake - the EZpage link that DOES work correctly uses the "URI Mapping" box. The other links were inserted as internal links and give me "&zenid" with new sessions.

I would still like to know - what are the consequences of omitting the zenid session info from links within the website?

conor:

Hi,

You have a custom script to update your products. Just update it to include the generation of URIs, shouldn't be hard.

Happy St Paddy's day everyone! No more posts from me for a while! :happy:

All the best..

Conor
ceon

I never had to download or upgrade my site myself, is ther a step by step guide for uploading modules for someone like me?