rxalex:

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

worth the hassle.. there really isn't much if you're good at reading readme files :)

immunecology:

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

Face it, you have all been scammed.

Hi all - for those of you that actually paid money to fundraiser can you drop me a quick PM ?

Thanks

I've just installed this on my ZC 1.3.6 live shop.
From what I've read in this thread it seems to be compatible.

However, after uploading the .htaccess file I get an "500 Internal Server Error", anyone who's seen this and know of a quick solution?

Hi to all you Zenners :)

I am very new to this, so please be gentle with me.

I have recently installed Chemo's Ultimate URL's, to be precise i actually used the DrByte updated version as i am running Zen Cart V1.35

I now am faced with a problem... Please take a moment to see the error here... http://www.dinkydrinks.eu/

I had the site working well prior to this install, which went a little wrong as i could not get it working with my modifications.

I had made the fatal mistake of not making adequate plans and my backups are not comprehensive.

I have actually used a comparison tool and replaced the core files and changes etc to try and rescue the site.

I am fairly confident that the site is now at the stage i was at when presented with the error you see now directly after dooing the URL mod i mentioned above.

Please help with this as i have spent several moments " hours :( " on this and am getting nowhere fast.

Many thanks in advance.

Jamie

jamie2k:

Hi to all you Zenners :)

I am very new to this, so please be gentle with me.

I have recently installed Chemo's Ultimate URL's, to be precise i actually used the DrByte updated version as i am running Zen Cart V1.35

I now am faced with a problem... Please take a moment to see the error here... http://www.dinkydrinks.eu/

I had the site working well prior to this install, which went a little wrong as i could not get it working with my modifications.

I had made the fatal mistake of not making adequate plans and my backups are not comprehensive.

I have actually used a comparison tool and replaced the core files and changes etc to try and rescue the site.

I am fairly confident that the site is now at the stage i was at when presented with the error you see now directly after dooing the URL mod i mentioned above.

Please help with this as i have spent several moments " hours :( " on this and am getting nowhere fast.

Many thanks in advance.

Jamie

Sorry to BOUNCE this folks... but i really could do with some advice.

regards

Jamie

to jamie2k:

This looks like an sql injection trying to run, which looks very odd for this contribution...
Could you tell us how you installed this contrib STEP BY STEP?
More specifically, what did you do with the sql file so can see it run during a page load?

You may want to check this thread:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28580

It sounds like there may be one or two MySQL 5 icompatibilities with some of the add-on mods.

Absolute

One way round this would be to install the sql patches manually, as they all auto-install to my knowledge with MySQL 4. I can't remember off the top of my head if there is an SQL file available for this patch, otherwise you may need to try and run this, and each time an error appears, jsut install that SQL line manually.

The reason it is failing currently is because the SEO contrib is trying to install the required database keys, and failing. This will keep happening, until your database has these keys inserted, and the automatic checks return true.

Absolute

Many thanks for your help folks :)

I have currently decided to install this site from scratch and am at this stage:-

http://www.dinkydrinks.eu/demo

I am just going to move the site up a level to replace the broken version of the site and then try again with the latest version of ZC and re installation of the SEO module.

I will advise as to my progress as i work through this tonight...

kind regards

Jamie

PS Anyone who likes a tipple now and again should add my msn address and help me out with some moral support as this would be very welcome and I do run a drinks delivery company ;)

My MSN = [email protected]

Accidentally posted yesterday in the wrong thread, so please bear with me if you've already seen this elsewhere.

I've been running Ultimate SEO URLs 2.103 for about a month on shedkitstore.com. I like it for the most part, but I'm tearing out my hair over the session-ID behavior. Zen-Cart (1.3.7) adds the &zenid=... session identifier to the end of href values on nearly every link on the first page loaded. Click any non-category link (EZ-pages, info, etc) with a session identifier in the url, and get a page-not-found. Shoppers who are brave enough to try again will get the url without session id, and the correct pages will load on the second attempt. Not everyone is that persistent, though, and leaving it as-is amounts to flushing a lot of advertising dollars down the drain.

How do I work around this? Has anyone else experienced similar problems with this contribution? For whatever it's worth, the server error log shows "File does not exist" errors when this happens. Anywhere a session ID is tacked on to the end of the URL, the result is "page not found."

I know the problem is with SEO URLs, as it only occurs when I have this contrib enabled. If I switch SEO URLs off, the zenid-appended urls load just fine.

Is this fixable, or am I wasting my time?
Sean

tvadpro:

Accidentally posted yesterday in the wrong thread, so please bear with me if you've already seen this elsewhere.

I've been running Ultimate SEO URLs 2.103 for about a month on shedkitstore.com. I like it for the most part, but I'm tearing out my hair over the session-ID behavior. Zen-Cart (1.3.7) adds the &zenid=... session identifier to the end of href values on nearly every link on the first page loaded. Click any non-category link (EZ-pages, info, etc) with a session identifier in the url, and get a page-not-found. Shoppers who are brave enough to try again will get the url without session id, and the correct pages will load on the second attempt. Not everyone is that persistent, though, and leaving it as-is amounts to flushing a lot of advertising dollars down the drain.

How do I work around this? Has anyone else experienced similar problems with this contribution? For whatever it's worth, the server error log shows "File does not exist" errors when this happens. Anywhere a session ID is tacked on to the end of the URL, the result is "page not found."

I know the problem is with SEO URLs, as it only occurs when I have this contrib enabled. If I switch SEO URLs off, the zenid-appended urls load just fine.

Is this fixable, or am I wasting my time?
Sean

There is a post for a fix for this in one of the 450+ posts on this thread. Do a search for all Dreamscape's posts on this thread. I know that he provided a fix especially for ezpages, infopages, paypal ipn, etc.

Thanks for the tip -- I took your advice and read all of Dreamscape's posts in this thread. Were you referring to this post? My problem isn't limited to EZ-pages, info pages, etc. -- the problem I'm having with Ultimate SEO URLs is with links that contain the &zenid appendage. Plus, the fix that Dreamscape posted for the EZ-pages/info-pages problem was already integrated in my 2.103 installation (checked the classes/seo.url.php just to make sure).

Worth noting: SEO URLs breaks whenever the link has an ampersand, e.g. &zenid ... but it doesn't break when the link has a question mark, e.g. ?zenid ...

I noticed this because links with ?zenid in the categories sidebox work, while all of the links with &zenid do not work.

BlessIsaacola:

There is a post for a fix for this in one of the 450+ posts on this thread. Do a search for all Dreamscape's posts on this thread. I know that he provided a fix especially for ezpages, infopages, paypal ipn, etc.

tvadpro:

Thanks for the tip -- I took your advice and read all of Dreamscape's posts in this thread. Were you referring to this post? My problem isn't limited to EZ-pages, info pages, etc. -- the problem I'm having with Ultimate SEO URLs is with links that contain the &zenid appendage. Plus, the fix that Dreamscape posted for the EZ-pages/info-pages problem was already integrated in my 2.103 installation (checked the classes/seo.url.php just to make sure).

Worth noting: SEO URLs breaks whenever the link has an ampersand, e.g. &zenid ... but it doesn't break when the link has a question mark, e.g. ?zenid ...

I noticed this because links with ?zenid in the categories sidebox work, while all of the links with &zenid do not work.

I thought the Zenid is only generated once and twice if and only if you turn on the option to recreate sessions on Admin side when customer goes to checkout. Are you saying you're getting Zenid on every page?

No, I'm only getting it on the first page loaded. So if someone clicks any link other than a categories sidebox link, it's bad. You can see what I mean on ShedKitStore.com.

Also worth noting:

The second and subsequent pages loaded have no ampersands in any links. All the links that had ampersands on the first loaded page have question marks instead.

Are the ampersands supposed to appear on the first page?

It looks like your .htaccess file may not be formatted correctly. Can you post the last three lines of the .htaccess file that follow on from:

All other pages

Don't rewrite real files or directories

Absolute

tvadpro:

No, I'm only getting it on the first page loaded. So if someone clicks any link other than a categories sidebox link, it's bad. You can see what I mean on ShedKitStore.com.

I am unable to duplicate the problem you're describing. However, I got this error while trying to view your large image:

Warning: main(includes/templates/shed_kits_tpl/popup_image//google_analytics.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/sksadmin/shedkitstore.com/includes/templates/shed_kits_tpl/common/html_header.php on line 220

Warning: main(includes/templates/shed_kits_tpl/popup_image//google_analytics.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/sksadmin/shedkitstore.com/includes/templates/shed_kits_tpl/common/html_header.php on line 220

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/templates/shed_kits_tpl/popup_image//google_analytics.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/share/pear') in /hsphere/local/home/sksadmin/shedkitstore.com/includes/templates/shed_kits_tpl/common/html_header.php on line 220

Obviously, your site is experiencing all sorts of minor issues with different mods. Perhaps, you should verify one mod at a time to make sure there are no conflicts.

SEO URL have other issues but I did not experience what you're describing on my site that I have tested the mod on. Perhaps, something is not right in your .htaccess

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

I modified the placement of my Google Analytics script earlier this afternoon & apparently haven't yet discovered the ramifications. Separate issue -- I'll take a look at that one now, but suffice to say the problem with ampersands pre-dates the Analytics tweak.

tvadpro:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

> 
> I modified the placement of my Google Analytics script earlier this afternoon & apparently haven't yet discovered the ramifications. Separate issue -- I'll take a look at that one now, but suffice to say the problem with ampersands pre-dates the Analytics tweak.

I do not see any problem with your .htaccess rewrite but I am also not able to duplicate the problem you're describing. I guess for me I will just add this to another inconsistent issue of this mod which is why some of paid to have Dreamscape rewrite the mod except that he hasn't deliver since he collected the money.

Good luck troubleshooting.