I haven't worked at all in the last 2 or 3 months because of personal reasons.

And let's keep this thread to community support for the released versions instead of speculation of things we know nothing about.

I experience serious problems with ULTIMATE SEO URL'S

Everything seems to work fine. Recently i get complaints from customers that they completed there orders but did not get an order confirmation.

The stupid thing is that when i placed a test order the order was processed perfectly.

I do not know for sure what is causing this.. It must be SEO URL's or the Recent Update to 1.3.7

Today i tested all again an at a certain point i placed a testing order. Cycled through the payment process. And tried to confirm the order.....
Hey... now the order was not confirmed but took me back to the http://www.myshop.com/ that you see after your logged inn with the customer greeting.
I tried to complete the order that remained in the shopping cart several times but without succes.

Than I switched of ULTIMATE SEO URL's and deleted the .htaccess addition and the same order that was still in the shopping cart was processed without a problem.....

Suggestions on this issue???

Yes, don't use SEO URL's untill author fixes bugs and updates. I think I'm going to go without this mod even though it's appealing. I can't afford to have orders not work properly.

i have installed it and when i turn it on in admin and go to my store and click on a category it returns page not found what else do i have to do to make this work?

hondauser85:

i have installed it and when i turn it on in admin and go to my store and click on a category it returns page not found what else do i have to do to make this work?

As so can read here above DO NOT USE THIS.
You will lose customers because sometimes they cannot complete orders as you can read.

There all still many bugs with this contribution.

I uninstalled the ULTIMATE SEO URLS and now orders are processed without any problem using zencart 1.3.7 that confirms that the problems that occured was caused by ULTIMATE SEO URLS and not the ZENCART 1.3.7. update

At the risk of being bombarded with questions or differing points of view:

Here's a suggestion which may get you out of a PayPal mess - turn off the automatic redirects for the module. If you use any payment handler where your customer is sent away from teh site, and then returns, and the URL they return to is NOT an SEO URL, then the SEO script redirects them to the corrected URL, which can cause a few problems with posted data.

Secondly, if you are using the EzPages module, and you place the content for the pages in the EzPages content box, as opposed to creating links to other internal pages, then the SEO will always place chater=x&id=y tags at the end of teh urls. A solution to this to add extra pages the long way, where you actually add the pages to the core Zen Cart code, rather than using EzPages. The pages can then be called anything you like, and this will appear in teh URL. For advice on how to do this, check out the about us contribution in the downloads section.

The advantage of adding the pages the long way is they are also multilingual, and they are accessible using the SEO URLs automaitcally.

Good luck

Absolute

I've followed installation of Ultimate SEO URLs on Zen Cart and eveything except step one was clear. I changed all files, but couldn't find the referenced code in 'includes/application_top.php using instructions at: http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zencart/Ultimate_SEO_URLs/install.html which says: "Open your Zen Cart file includes/application_top.php and find the following code around line 355:". Only problem is I can't find the code, but more importantly there are only 131 lines. All the other instructions were clear, but I'm stuck re: step one so am wondering if you can advise as i've searched the forum and haven't managed to find this particular problem/fix so i'm obviously doing something wrong or not reading something i should.

thanks so much for any assistance this one frustrating item that i've been trying to resolve on my own to no avial....

I've followed installation of Ultimate SEO URLs on Zen Cart and eveything except step one was clear. I changed all files, but couldn't find the referenced code in 'includes/application_top.php using instructions at: http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zencart/Ultimate_SEO_URLs/install.html which says: "Open your Zen Cart file includes/application_top.php and find the following code around line 355:". Only problem is I can't find the code, but more importantly there are only 131 lines. All the other instructions were clear, but I'm stuck re: step one so am wondering if you can advise as i've searched the forum and haven't managed to find this particular problem/fix so i'm obviously doing something wrong or not reading something i should.

thanks so much for any assistance this one frustrating item that i've been trying to resolve on my own to no avial....

I've followed installation of Ultimate SEO URLs on Zen Cart and eveything except step one was clear. I changed all files, but couldn't find the referenced code in 'includes/application_top.php using instructions at: http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zencart/Ultimate_SEO_URLs/install.html which says: "Open your Zen Cart file includes/application_top.php and find the following code around line 355:". Only problem is I can't find the code, but more importantly there are only 131 lines. All the other instructions were clear, but I'm stuck re: step one so am wondering if you can advise as i've searched the forum and haven't managed to find this particular problem/fix so i'm obviously doing something wrong or not reading something i should.

thanks so much for any assistance this one frustrating item that i've been trying to resolve on my own to no avial....

characterdriven:

I've followed installation of Ultimate SEO URLs on Zen Cart and eveything except step one was clear. I changed all files, but couldn't find the referenced code in 'includes/application_top.php using instructions at: http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zencart/Ultimate_SEO_URLs/install.html which says: "Open your Zen Cart file includes/application_top.php and find the following code around line 355:". Only problem is I can't find the code, but more importantly there are only 131 lines. All the other instructions were clear, but I'm stuck re: step one so am wondering if you can advise as i've searched the forum and haven't managed to find this particular problem/fix so i'm obviously doing something wrong or not reading something i should.

thanks so much for any assistance this one frustrating item that i've been trying to resolve on my own to no avial....

Sorry about the repeat message, but thought it didn't post as got error that server was busy. Please delete this. Thanks.

The core zen files were altered considerably between 1.2 and 1.3 releases. The instructions you are following, which details the application_top edit are for an earlier version of the store. With Zen 1.3.5 and above, you don't need to insert any new code. There are separate install instructions available from dreamscapes site.

Absolute

dreamscape:

I haven't worked at all in the last 2 or 3 months because of personal reasons.

And let's keep this thread to community support for the released versions instead of speculation of things we know nothing about.

So dreamscape was saying he took the contribution ($500) but did nothing to the new version (he promised 10-15 hours work) and if there is problem with the existing version, ask other for help :wacko:

What kind of zenner he is :shocking:

Absolute:

There are separate install instructions available from dreamscapes site.

Absolute

Hi Absolute,

May I ask where exactly for the separate install insturctions? Works for the new zen cart 1.3.5+?

It doesn't work with mine 1.3.6.

Absolute:

The core zen files were altered considerably between 1.2 and 1.3 releases. The instructions you are following, which details the application_top edit are for an earlier version of the store. With Zen 1.3.5 and above, you don't need to insert any new code. There are separate install instructions available from dreamscapes site.

Absolute

Thanks. I looked, but don't see anything but the installation instructions I was using. Could you include a link?

I stand corrected .. there aren't separate instructions on the site, they are in the Readme file included in the download.

This is the readme for v2.103:

Ultimate SEO URLs for Zen Cart

For this v1.3.5-compatible version, follow the installation instructions at the URL below,
BUT WITH THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTIONS:

1. skip step #2 ... editing application_top.php
2. steps 3-5, already-edited versions of these files are in the "135-specific-files" folder.
   Simply upload these to the related folder on your site. You should rename the existing file to *.bak before copying.
3. step 6 ... a sample .htaccess file is included. Simply rename to .htaccess and edit the word /shop/ to match your stie

PLEASE ENSURE YOU ARE USING THE CURRENT VERSION: FOUND HERE

I am not the developer for this module, however, I have installed and tweaked it to run on a number of stores, with great success.

There are a couple of suggestions I would make for this module:

1. Ensure that Auto-Redirects is turned OFF, as there are a couple of instances when you don't want the redirects occuring.
2. Rather than replacing the orginal zen_href_link with the new text, RENAME the original function to original_zen_href_link, so that it can be called as and when you may need it.
3. A switch should be included as standard in the next release so that SSL pages can be set to non-SEO URLs, for use in shared-SSL situations.

Good luck

Absolute

Hello,
I have a small issue. :unsure:
I've installed but my categories - products looks like this :
Áñ÷éôΓΓôïΓΓ©ΓΓž-Γ“ΓΓ§ΓïãñΓʽΓΆΓŸΓʽ-ÃëáðôéΓΓž-ÆùãñΓʽΓΆΓ©ΓΓž-c-2_10.html

charset=iso-8859-7 or windows-1253 (Greek)
Zen 1.3.5

Any help is appriciate it

Have a nice day

I installed Ultimate URL's...almost. Did all of the other steps outlined on: http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zencart/Ultimate_SEO_URLs/install.html, however the first instruction as follows doesn't make sense as there is no line 355.

"Open your Zen Cart file **includes/application_top.php** and find the following code around line 355:"

I've tired opening 'application_top.php' in various editors and it has 131 lines, so "Step 1" is the only step that I haven't been able to execute re: installation. No one else seems to have this problem having searched the forum- or it would be clear what to do by now. Any suggestions?

I went back through this thread and realized I didn't have the latest version so downloaded that, which explains that the file in question no longer need to be changed. Only problem is that I installed it and now all the items in my store are getting a "not found" error as follows: 'The requested URL /rhinestone-c-6.html was not found on this server.'

This is a live store...and I do have a backup, but if anyone could take a look at this and figure it out as soon as possible I'd be very grateful as I'm so close yet so far at this moment.

Characterdriven:

Have you read my post above? Firstly, you need to download the LATEST verison. Once you have done this, you need to read the README file which is included in the download. This will give you the specific information for your Zen install version.

By the sound of it, you haven't set up your htaccess file correctly. If your store is accessed using a url like: https://www.mystore.com/index.php, then the line:

RewriteBase /shop/

should be: RewriteBase /

Otherwise, if you have your store in a subdirectory, such as https://www.mystore.com/online_store/index.php, then the line should be :

RewriteBase /online_store/

PM me if you need further help,

Absolute

papalabis:

Do you have more than 1 language installed? IF so, it may be that you need to set the categories to display the URL in a language other than Greek.

In includes/classes/seo.url.php, find the line ```
if ($languages_id == '') $languages_id = $_SESSION['languages_id'];

Now you need to do a little lookup in your database.  Find the ID for the Greek language, and the ID for English, and place the IDs in the following code on the line directly below the code above:```
if ($languages_id == 'GREEK_LANGUAGE_ID') $languages_id = 'ENGLISH_LANGUAGE_ID';

This will change all of the name sof categories AND products to english, rather than Greek.

Good luck

Absolute