Chemo's Ultimate URL's

Absolute:

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.Or use phonetic translation (translit).

Absolute:

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.

No, i have only Greek Language :(

Any Idea ?

a_berezin:

Or use phonetic translation (translit).

Interesting
I will use it....

Thanks Guys

papalabis:

Interesting
I will use it....
PM me if you need help with it.

We've all been very patient. The fundraiser ended over two months ago, and yet few people who contributed have complained about the 10 or so hours that were needed to complete this mod. But 1500+ hours later we get this statement which both surprises and concerns me. Why announce to the community that you could complete the mod if $X were donated, collect the money, and then go on a personal leave? That is bad form. But for now, I guess I'll be patient.

dreamscape:

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

I agree with voltage that we have to be patient next time when we see some zenner saying a quick fix with $.

But is that also meaning we couldn't trust other zenner with this community?

Agree with kelvyn, "... then it's time for a group contacting of Paypal...."
Contact zen-cart directly on his bad behavior too...

I doubt dreamscape had time give us explaination besides his personal leave and busy online (shopping with contributed funding :schmoll: ) but no time for coding.

Let's remember what he said "...instead of speculation of things we know nothing about..." He's right: we know nothing about him. We thought he just another good zenner, guess we were all wrong.

Hi there!

I am new to Zen Cart but an OsCom Veteran.
I installed SEO URLs without any problem, my catalog works fine and displays SEFUs.

However, I get a 404 as soon as I'm trying to reach a secure connection (I use a shared SSL) because the URLs from SSL pages are not built correctly

Here is the structure of my URL:

https://sharedserver.com/~axxxxx/wholesale/index.php?main_page=login&zenid=9a30f04095c098e351eeb268b03eb5c3

Here is what it becomes when I activate SEO URLs:

https://sharedserver.com/~axxxxx/wholesale/login.html?zenid=9a30f04095c098e351eeb268b03eb5c3

Any addition to make to the htaccess file for shared SSL?

I have installed SEOs latest version 2.103
I run ZC 1.3.5
My htaccess is in the wholesale directory
the rewrite base has /wholesale/ in it

Thank you for your help!

Sorry I can't help with the solution for shared SSL, but I can't help thinking that it's not great sorting out SEO URLs if you have those horrible session IDs appended to your URLs.

I think there must be something wrong with your cookie settings if they are being used. Perhaps if you could sort that out, you might be one step further forward.

SEO doesn't really work with shared hosting as hte direct paths are different, from the shared host to your directory. There is a way round this, which is to disable teh SEO contrib ONLY on SSL links.

I have the code in the office, and I'll fish it out for you later today.

Absolute

hairydog:

Sorry I can't help with the solution for shared SSL, but I can't help thinking that it's not great sorting out SEO URLs if you have those horrible session IDs appended to your URLs.

I think there must be something wrong with your cookie settings if they are being used. Perhaps if you could sort that out, you might be one step further forward.

I would be very grateful if you could point out where cookies settings are.
I didn't see any cookies paths in the configure files like OsCom :smile:

Thanks

I'm disappointed.

I contributed several times to the fund to fix this thing and three months on, the fix has not been addressed.

I am going to go through the drill of updating my store to 1.3.7.

But I am going to run without SEO URL's as I don't have time to chase bugs like people here are reporting with this.

I think there has been enough time for Dreamscape to either find the reported 10-15 hours we all paid for or to tell us he was in an auto accident and laid up unable to type.

That said, I will monitor this thread and hope that someday this issue gets addressed.

It's a poor compromise to have to not have SEO, but I value stabililty more and there is enough code wrangling one has to do just to get the features I am using in place.

We go live Friday.

Somebody is filling his moneypockets here LOL.

This is one of the reasons that I put ZENCART in de recycle bin and went back to my old perfect working Creloaded 6.2 version. This version has perfect working Ultimate Seo Url

Noutje:

Somebody is filling his moneypockets here LOL.

This is one of the reasons that I put ZENCART in de recycle bin and went back to my old perfect working Creloaded 6.2 version. This version has perfect working Ultimate Seo Url

That is interesting.

I have until Friday to do the upgrade to 1.36 and a few other things and get my site live.

I had CreLoaded, bought a version of it a while back. How easy would it be to transplant my look/feel to CreLoaded and just get away from all of this nonsense?

Has anyone moved a ZenCart to CreLoaded recently and found it any easier than the complicated update process I am staring at?

If so, let me know.

If it's as easy as a ZC update, then a bunch of us ought to just shift over and send Zen a message that this kind of development shenanigans don't work.

kelvyn:

I think (hope!) you mean 1.3.7!To be fair, the developer of this extension is nothing to do with Zen Cart.

On the other hand, you could argue that readable/seo-friendly URLs etc are such a basic core functionality, that they shouled be part of the core anyway.

Yeah- I am updateing 1.3.6 to 1.3.7 -- Or thinking about it it almost seems like a fresh install and reinstall of all my mods is the best answer. 10-12 hours of file comparison seems like an unholy price to pay to upgrade the code base.

Plus all the nagging concern that extensions that were certified under 1.3.6 or 1.3.x might have some unknown bug induced by 1.3.7.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like a beta tester instead of a user.

And yeah--ZenCard should have addressed the SEO URL issue a long time ago.

Hi Folks

I applied this to my includes/classes/seo.url.php, and it works like a charm now:

line 145 (or search for //don't rewrite paypal IPN)

replace

      // don't rewrite the paypal IPN notify url
      if ($page == 'ipn_main_handler.php') {
       return $this->stock_href_link($page, $parameters, $connection, $add_session_id, true, $static, $use_dir_ws_catalog);
      }

      /*

by

      // don't rewrite the paypal IPN notify url
      if (($page == 'ipn_main_handler.php') || ($connection == 'SSL')) {
       return $this->stock_href_link($page, $parameters, $connection, $add_session_id, true, $static, $use_dir_ws_catalog);
      }

      /*

let me know if it fixes your problem!

I talked too fast: it redirects to the good pages, but we are back to NON SSL pages. Arf.

This code is meant for Shared SSL sites only, where the SSL pages do not need to be SEO pages.

• From a base zen -cart install, open includes/functions/html_output.php, and rename zen_href_link funtion to zen_original_href_link

• Next, before this function, paste the following code:

  function zen_href_link($page = '', $parameters = '', $connection = 'NONSSL', $add_session_id = true, $search_engine_safe = true, $static = false, $use_dir_ws_catalog = true) {
		if ($connection == 'SSL') return original_zen_href_link($page, $parameters, $connection, $add_session_id, $search_engine_safe, $static, $use_dir_ws_catalog);
		if (!isset($GLOBALS['seo_urls']) && !is_object($GLOBALS['seo_urls'])) {
			include_once(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'seo.url.php');

			$GLOBALS['seo_urls'] = &new SEO_URL($_SESSION['languages_id']);
		}

		return $GLOBALS['seo_urls']->href_link($page, $parameters, $connection, $add_session_id, $static, $use_dir_ws_catalog);
  }

• Next, perform the standard install as instructed in the readme documents.

• Finally, in the admin TUN OFF autmatic redirects.

Thats it. This code ensures that ALL SSL page links are created as standard zen URLs. If its an SSL page, the chancews are that you really don't need the page to have an SEO url in the first place, as the search engines are probably not indexing these pages anyway.

This patch works, and I currnetly have it installed on over 20 sites using shared SSLs. The SEO contribution is a fantastic module to install, and in its defence, I have it installed on well over 40 sites, and not a problem on any of them.

Good luck,

ABsolute

Thank you so much for your help, I installed it and ir works perfectly!

Ahem... I don't want to be a party pooper after the big hurray, but did you try to click on "log out" on your 40 sites ? ;-)

Not a big issue, since I know very few people who actually log out, but I have sometimes very demanding clients and I'm sure that day will come with an email asking "my site has a broken link, thank you for fixing this".

I am clueless on how to fix this one...besides removing the log out link haha!

immunecology:

That is interesting.

I have until Friday to do the upgrade to 1.36 and a few other things and get my site live.

I had CreLoaded, bought a version of it a while back. How easy would it be to transplant my look/feel to CreLoaded and just get away from all of this nonsense?

Has anyone moved a ZenCart to CreLoaded recently and found it any easier than the complicated update process I am staring at?

If so, let me know.

If it's as easy as a ZC update, then a bunch of us ought to just shift over and send Zen a message that this kind of development shenanigans don't work.

It took me also one day to migrate back to crelaoded again.
Installed creloaded and basic database from the install
Took a database comparison tool lik NAVICAT to migrate the data in the database and the structure. Some zencart DB fields are complete different from Creloaded.

Also Zencart with Ultimate SEO URL loses sessions sometimes when they checkout. For the customer it seems that checout has worked but they never come to checkout_succes.php. The customer thinks that he made an order but the order is still in the shoppingcart when logging in again.
Also Zencart was SLOW SLOW SLOW when loading pages wit SEO on.

Creloaded does not have all the discount/ sales features of zencart but is a lot faster.
SEO URL comes with an addional commercial SEO ADD ON but I installed the one from CHEMO on my Creloaded Store from the OSCOMMERCE contributions.

So is SEO worth the hassle? or it's filled with errors ... ?