Ultimate SEO URLs

@tekram:

If you think about it, this is just like you are using Windows 98 here. It may still run fine, no one argues it, but it is not supported by microsoft any more. No one writes application for it, no more update, security patch etc...

I uploaded all the files but the option for it is not displaying in admin

CnTGifts:

I uploaded all the files but the option for it is not displaying in admin

Few things to check.....

First, close your browser and reload your admin logging back in... Look under the Configuration menu for the SEO urls options menu, if its not there hit [CONTROL] & [F5] to refresh it cleanly.

Second, back over the file upload and re-upload and check the files.

~Melanie

kyrylkov:

Default configuration of Ultimate SEO may damage your site for at least 2 reasons:

1. it makes it possible to create duplicate URL's for the same content, which people say Google doesn't like

I'm SEO guy and all my customers are on the top of Google with ZenCart driven stores. I use this SEO Urls patch and pretty happy.
Actually, duplicate content is just a notice from Google (in webmaster tools panel) - for most cases. The site must be VERY overstuffed the same content for tens, hundreds of pages to get a red flag from Google.

Now I have a customer who have a huge inventory but all product names are pretty useless for SEO. So I pushed this customer to rename all products for SEO purposes. Of course I started to see a growing list of duplicates in Google's Webmaster Tools panel. So, I've just made a quick hack that works only for "wrongname-p-123.html" (most annoying thing). This is a quick hack (sorry, I'm too busy to make a nice patch for all cases, like for categories, etc):

/includes/classes/seo.url.php:

Just find this function (1187 line):

	function need_redirect() {
		$this->need_redirect = ((preg_match('/main_page=/i', $this->uri)) ? true : false);

and add the following code after $this->need_redirect = ((preg_match('/main_page=/i', $this->uri)) ? true : false); :

		// pg@ check product name from URL and redirect if not equal to real product name to avoid duplicates
		if ( preg_match('/-p-[0-9]/i', $this->uri) && preg_match('/main_page=product_info/i', $this->real_uri) ) {
			$productname_from_url = preg_replace('/-p-[0-9].*/i','',$this->uri);
			$productid_from_url= preg_replace('/.*-p-([0-9]+)\.html/i','$1',$this->uri);
			if ( $this->get_product_name($productid_from_url) != $productname_from_url ) {
				$this->need_redirect = true;
			// repeating procedure from function check_redirect() but for real_uri
			if ($this->is_attribute_string($this->real_uri)) {
			$parsed_url = parse_url($this->real_uri);
			$this->uri_parsed = parse_url($parsed_url['scheme']);
			$this->uri_parsed['query'] = preg_replace('/products_id=([0-9]+)/', 'products_id=$1:' . $parsed_url['path'], $this->uri_parsed['query']);
		} else {
			$this->uri_parsed = parse_url($this->real_uri);
		}
			}
		} // pg@

This code compares product name from URL with real product name and if not equal - initiate 301 redirect to the correct URL.

Let me know if it work for you guys.

Equin 0x

OK, I give up - I'm stuck. :D

I've followed the instructions to a tee (installed the zen_cart_folder followed by the 1.3.8 specific files) and then merged the htacess with the one I've currently got (need it for ezthumbnails).

Annoyingly, when i click onto a product/category, I get a page not found.

In addition to that, I can't find any new configuration setting in my admin area (configuration > seo url, right?).

Can anyone help? I tend to skim instructions, but I can't have missed anything out. :smartalec:

Thanks!
T

Rewrite Base

The first line check it correct just / for root and the /directory/ if ZC is in a directory.

The admin utility is in the configuration menu.... IF you don't see it log out, close your browser and relogin to check.

If its still not there check the admin install files again.

~Melanie

ebookba:

Problem fixed~!
I have found the solution here...
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96924

Thanks for that link ebookba! :clap:

im having an issue with my install od ultimate seo

i get this error

Not Found

The requested URL /home/myusername/public_html/index.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Here's my htaccess file that im sure is the issue

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /home/myusername/public_html

# From Ultimate SEO URLs
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For Open Operations Info Manager
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager
RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# All other pages
# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteBase /home/myusername/public_html

This must be changed to the http path.

RewriteBase /

Cheers,
Melanie

mprough:

RewriteBase /home/myusername/public_html

> 
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RewriteBase /
```Cheers,
> Melanie

thank you so much! :clap:

mprough:

Rewrite Base

The first line check it correct just / for root and the /directory/ if ZC is in a directory.

The admin utility is in the configuration menu.... IF you don't see it log out, close your browser and relogin to check.

If its still not there check the admin install files again.

~Melanie

I'm looking through those - shouldn't there be a file in the extra boxes folder in order to display it in the menu?

This is really confusing.

Wonderfull addon....but I have some trouble with a site with SSL. When I disable it....SSL works (https) but when i enable it, the SSL wont work, it stucks on hhtp instead of https

What is the problem?

Looks like you certificate is expired

https://www.top-cms.nl uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate expired on 6/25/2008 7:59 PM.

(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)

So when enabled you get fresh pages... when not you might be getting cached pgs on your pc... not really working.

~Melanie

mprough:

Looks like you certificate is expired

So when enabled you get fresh pages... when not you might be getting cached pgs on your pc... not really working.

~Melanie
It's about another domain https://www.nature-galerie.com

SSL is working... Are you enabling it properly for ZC... Because they are really rather unrelated to the SEO urls.

~Melanie

mprough:

SSL is working... Are you enabling it properly for ZC... Because they are really rather unrelated to the SEO urls.

~Melanie
It's simple (the problem)....that is a zen-cart shop v1.3.8a installed Ultimate_SEO_URLs_v2.105 with a SSL-certificate.
The SSL in the backend works great. In the front-end also when i disable Ultimate SEO. But when I enable it. It doesn't work.

Go to the login page and you stay on the http://www.nature-galerie.com instead of the https://www.nature-galerie.com

I am guessing you have not configured it correctly.

The ONLY setting needed to apply SSL to your checkout and account pages is in public_html/includes/configure.php set the following to true.

  // Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
  define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');

Also, make sure you haven't incorrectly changed the http & https base url settings in both Zen Cart configuration.php files.

Cheers,
Melanie

mprough:

I am guessing you have not configured it correctly.

The ONLY setting needed to apply SSL to your checkout and account pages is in public_html/includes/configure.php set the following to true.

// Use secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');

> 
> Cheers,
> Melanie
All done, like I said....when i disable the seo....the https works great

Might contact your webhost and make certain you have cURL support for your SSL compiled them.

~Melanie

mprough:

Might contact your webhost and make certain you have cURL support for your SSL compiled them.

~Melanie
Thnx for your help Melanie,

Also done, another domain on the same server works great.:(