EZ Pages links in product description giving 404 'page not found' error

Hi

I've rebuilt (upgraded) to v155 in a folder called 'catalog' off my root directory. My web host company have redirected both www.my_site.com.au and my_site.com.au to www.my_site.com.au/catalog and everything seems to be working fine except...

I've got links on my product description pages to a size chart made with EZ Pages i.e. <p>For Sizing please refer to <a href="index.php?main_page=1&ezID=10" target="_blank">Size Chart</a></p>

When I click on the link I go to http://www.my_site.com.au/catalog/index.php?main_page=1&ezID=10 and instead of the 'size chart' I get 'page not found'

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

What was the purpose of adding the "catalog" folder?

It seems you've probably got your domain pointing to folder A, but your site is thinking it's in folder B ...

I realize that this is not likely the case, but in your admin for this site in the catalog directory when you goto ezpages, is this particular content assigned (still assigned?) to the id of 10? Also, while clicking the link takes you to the catalog directory, does the link (before clicking on it) point to the catalog directory (I think this is possibly a duplicate to DrByte's post but looking at it from a different perspective.)

DrByte:

What was the purpose of adding the "catalog" folder?

It seems you've probably got your domain pointing to folder A, but your site is thinking it's in folder B ...

I'm using the catalog 'folder' to make future upgrades/rebuilds easier. I'm thinking that if I rebuild in a subdirectory I can test the site out while keeping the old site live and then redirect to the new directory when it is all sorted.

There is probably something about the site thinking it is in folder B. Any way of pointing it to to A?

jingjo:

There is probably something about the site thinking it is in folder B. Any way of pointing it to to A?

Your configure.php files control all of how Zen Cart operates with your folders and URLs.

So, if you changed your server to make https://www.example.com point to public_html/catalog instead of public_html/ then you need to change the DIR_FS_CATALOG (and probably several other) settings in your configure.php to match the new folder you told the server to use.

DrByte:

Your configure.php files control all of how Zen Cart operates with your folders and URLs.

So, if you changed your server to make https://www.example.com point to public_html/catalog instead of public_html/ then you need to change the DIR_FS_CATALOG (and probably several other) settings in your configure.php to match the new folder you told the server to use.

I installed a new install into the subdirectory so the configure.php files look correct. I've got the line: define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/var/www/sites/www.my_site.com.au/html/catalog/');
as well as these lines:
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/catalog/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/catalog/');
but still get a 404 message.

I've made a new 'test' page with EZ Pages and still get the same error. The problem seems to be in EZ Pages

I don't think the issue is with ez-pages.

Maybe you're putting the wrong link in?

DrByte:

I don't think the issue is with ez-pages.

Maybe you're putting the wrong link in?
Thanks DrByte

The link I'm using in the product description is <a href="index.php?main_page=1&ezID=10" target="_blank">Size Chart</a>. The EZ Page ID is 10. And still no luck. :frusty:

jingjo:

The link I'm using in the product description is <a href="index.php?main_page=1&ezID=10" target="_blank">Size Chart</a>. The EZ Page ID is 10. And still no luck.
That's definitely wrong.

Since you haven't posted the actual URL to your site, I can't test this, but this fits the correct syntax much more correctly, assuming you're using the built-in original EZ-Page functionality and haven't changed it by rewriting how it works and how it uses its parameters:

index.php?main_page=page&id=10

DrByte:

That's definitely wrong.

Since you haven't posted the actual URL to your site, I can't test this, but this fits the correct syntax much more correctly, assuming you're using the built-in original EZ-Page functionality and haven't changed it by rewriting how it works and how it uses its parameters:

index.php?main_page=page&id=10

Thanks DrByte

Perhaps, I should explain. I haven't included posted a URL because I'm testing on a new test server made by my web host to comply with PayPal's requirement to TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1. My live site is built on v150 and uses the outdated PHP 5.2 My web host has/is encouraging me to upgrade so I've installed v155 and a new responsive template... that is how I got here. I've installed my database and upgraded it as per instructions and it seems fine. I can see and edit my EZ Pages in Admin - Tools - EZ Pages so they are sitting in my database.

I tried adding the link <a href="index.php?main_page=page&id=10" target="_blank">Size Chart</a> to a product description page and the error message I'm getting now is 'Sorry, the page you were attempting to access cannot be found.'

DrByte

Here is a pic of my admin - tools - EZ Pages

Can you access this page from your sidebox Important Links

What happens if you toggle all the TOC buttons from RED to GREEN?

RixStix:

What happens if you toggle all the TOC buttons from RED to GREEN?

Thanks Rick

I didn't think toggling all the TOC buttons would do anything, however... EZ Pages now work! :cheers: :thumbsup:

That "got me" too between updating from v1.3.9 to 1.5.x

Glad it was something easy to fix without extra coding. :smile:

jingjo:

DrByte

Here is a pic of my admin - tools - EZ Pages

One of Header/Footer/Sidebox must be checked/green for the page to be "enabled".

..or

If the page is too be hidden from any of the provided normal locations header, footer, sidebox link locations. It is only accessible from a link inside of a description you can go too includes/modules/pages/page/header_php.php line 29 and comment it out

THIS

$sql = "select * from " . TABLE_EZPAGES . " where pages_id = " . (int)$ezpage_id;
// comment the following line to allow access to pages which don't have a status switch set to Yes:
$sql .= " AND (status_toc > 0 or status_header > 0 or status_sidebox > 0 or status_footer > 0)";

BECOMES THIS

$sql = "select * from " . TABLE_EZPAGES . " where pages_id = " . (int)$ezpage_id;
// comment the following line to allow access to pages which don't have a status switch set to Yes:
[B]// [/B]$sql .= " AND (status_toc > 0 or status_header > 0 or status_sidebox > 0 or status_footer > 0)";