Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

Hi yellow1912,

I used to have the same problem as planatgenet reset alias cache and reset all cache solve the problem but I had another problem that if I enable "Set default language identifier" it rewrite over and over and firefox stop the connection and my url look like this https://www.mydomain.com/fr/fr/fr/my-cat/my-product

I try your solution with local.config.php doesn't work at all, so I've modified the code of config.php in the language array
now it's look like this

        'languages'             =>      array(  'default'       =>      'default',
                                                                'en'            =>      'default',
                                                                                'fr'            =>              'fr')

and it's works fine, the only problem is for the home link, the default language of my zen is in french and when I click on english, the same page became in english for now everything normal but if I click on "Home" it go back to the french welcome page and not to the english one.
I think it's just something to modify but what that is the question...
Here my configuration
Zen:1.3.8a
SSU:Beta 3.6.7

And here my replace characters with a lot of characters for lazy people like me :D

		$french = array("À","Á","Â","Ã","Ä","Å","Ç","È","É","Ê","Ë","Ì","Í","Î","Ï","Ò","Ó","Ô","Õ","Ö","Ù","Ú","Û","Ü","Ý","à","á","â","ã","ä","å","ç","è","é","ê","ë","ì","í","î","ï","ð","ò","ó","ô","õ","ö","ù","ú","û","ü","ý","ÿ");
		
		$translit = array("a","a","a","a","a","a","c","e","e","e","e","i","i","i","i","o","o","o","o","o","u","u","u","u","y","a","a","a","a","a","a","c","e","e","e","e","i","i","i","i","o","o","o","o","o","o","u","u","u","u","y","y");

I know not every characters are there but it's a good start I think :smile:

Hi,

thanks for the help. Yes I have enabled the local.config.php and the code is the same - I think it must be working as I can make the "es.php" transliterate from any standard letters to any other letters, just not the accented spanish ones which get ignored and replaced by hyphens.

Thanks neodolphin, every time I change something I reset all the caches just to make sure - interesting you had the same problem but reseting the caches didn't work for me, unfortunately.

Just to show an example, the english links are correct:
/en/ecological-jute-bags-c-13

the spanish should be:
/es/bolsos-yute-ecológicos-c-13

but it comes out as:
/es/bolsos-yute-ecol-gicos-c-13

Not sure if this is important but the "es.php" uses "$cyrillic = array" like the "ru.php". Whereas the "fr.php" uses its own "$french = array".

Anything else you can think of that I should check?

Thanks in advance.

One of the things you should check is that you should really make sure the es.php file is saved as unicode utf8. If you still need help, I would be glad to. But I will need temporary access to your admin and ftp in otder to help. If you would like, then pm me

Hello all -

I'm having some trouble getting this to work.

I tried installing the latest version, but ran into errors that were apparently due to a php5 vs. php4 problem. I installed the php4 version over the php5 version and those errors went away.

However, when I enable the SSU, my website won't work. The main page loads fine, but when I click on a category, contact us, etc., I get a 404 page from my hosting company. The address bar shows the simple URL, but I get the 404. As soon as I disable, it works again. I tried doing the clear cache thing after I enabled but it didn't work. I have no idea where to even start troubleshooting this . . . any suggestions?

This same thing happened when I tried (I believe it was) the Ultimate URL dealy, which is what led me to try this package.

Thanks in advance -- I'm really excited to get this working!

Same problem for me with "biométrique" doesn't goes to "biometrique" but "biom-trique". The only things I have done is to use config.php instead of local.config.php and it's works. I don't know if it's a good way but why english is defined in config.php and the other language in another ? Because, what I see is that the language variable from local.config.php don't overwrite the other form config.php even with multi-language support

For the $cyrillic and $french it just the name of the variable.

Lard_Lad:

Hello all -

I'm having some trouble getting this to work.

I tried installing the latest version, but ran into errors that were apparently due to a php5 vs. php4 problem. I installed the php4 version over the php5 version and those errors went away.

However, when I enable the SSU, my website won't work. The main page loads fine, but when I click on a category, contact us, etc., I get a 404 page from my hosting company. The address bar shows the simple URL, but I get the 404. As soon as I disable, it works again. I tried doing the clear cache thing after I enabled but it didn't work. I have no idea where to even start troubleshooting this . . . any suggestions?

This same thing happened when I tried (I believe it was) the Ultimate URL dealy, which is what led me to try this package.

Thanks in advance -- I'm really excited to get this working!
Several things:

1. if you are running 1.3.8 you should be able to ask if your host have php5 available. The switch takes several minutes and totally safe.

2. if you see the 404 page, one possible problem is that you either incorrectly configure your .htaccess file or your host does not support mod_rewrite. You will have to check this out with your host.

neodolphin:

Same problem for me with "biométrique" doesn't goes to "biometrique" but "biom-trique". The only things I have done is to use config.php instead of local.config.php and it's works. I don't know if it's a good way but why english is defined in config.php and the other language in another ? Because, what I see is that the language variable from local.config.php don't overwrite the other form config.php even with multi-language support

For the $cyrillic and $french it just the name of the variable.
the local is there for a reason:

1. Everytime you upgrade, you dont have to worry about the config file in the new package overwrite your own.
2. SSU does take all definitions in the local config file as "priority", meaning the config there does over-ride the default config.

I understand that the local is here for a reason but for me if I put exactly the same variable in local.config.php, I have the problem of rewriting over and over like I said in my first post.

Where and when did you get the package? If you redownload it again does it happen again? Go to admin/includes/module_installation/yellow1912_ssu/current_version.txt, does it say Beta 3.7.1?

zen 1.38a
sitemap xml 2.0
SSU 3.6.7(upgraded from 3.5.7)

only got English and default template

when i visit the site. url as expected. but when genreated xml sitemap, 'language/en' was trailed to every url, just like that
http://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/boutin-d-or-c-20_28/chri-bout-villusorsays-black-p-37/language/en

here is my settings for SSU:
Simple SEO URL

Name delimiter -
File extension html
ID delimiter -
Set max category level 2
Exclude list advanced_search_result,redirect,popup_image_additional,download,wordpress
Set Link Alias Status false
Set minimum word length 0
Set maximum name length 0
Set SSU Status true
Set SSU Multi Language Status false
Set Query Key's Exclude List zenid,gclid,number_of_uploads,number_of_downloads,action,sort,page,disp_order,filter_id,alpha_filter_id
Set Auto Alias Status false
Set Category Separator /
Set default language identifier true i try this with both true or false, no luck. same

sitemap xml 2.0 for some reason passes the "language" parameter into the zen_href_link function, this may happen because you have more than 1 language installed on your site? (whether you display multiple language on your site or not)

So you may want to check that, if your site does not have multiple language, you may want to check the sitemap setting. This happens because the module passes the language parameter into the zen_href_link function, this has nothing to do with SSU. The module simply accepts the language param and put into the url.

(BTW, when you upgrade, make sure every file is uploaded including the config.php file)

I downloaded from here
http://public.rubikintegration.com/
like http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zencart/modules/ssu/installation said, it was yesterday

neodolphin:

I downloaded from here
http://public.rubikintegration.com/
like http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zencart/modules/ssu/installation said, it was yesterday
Oops, sorry for my carelessness, please download it from eazy-templates.com

(I will update the link on the above page asap)

PS: If you would like, I can help you to look into your current setup and update and fix any problem for you. PM me

on eazy template it says Simple Seo Url zencart 3.6.7, is it normal ?

neodolphin:

on eazy template it says Simple Seo Url zencart 3.6.7, is it normal ?
The file you get should be 3.7.1 (I just havent updated the name, but now you should see it says that now (and also you should see that in your package, in admin/includes/module_installation/yellow1912_ssu/current_version.txt

Yes indeed, it's "16|Beta 3.7.1" but the problem with the over and over rewriting still existing unless I modify the file config.php and not local.config.php :no:

I think I'm going to stay like this and think to migrate to another solution for the website if my boss is okay with it.

Big thanks for your help :) see ya

yellow1912:

Several things:

1. if you are running 1.3.8 you should be able to ask if your host have php5 available. The switch takes several minutes and totally safe.

2. if you see the 404 page, one possible problem is that you either incorrectly configure your .htaccess file or your host does not support mod_rewrite. You will have to check this out with your host.

Thanks for your help --

I do have almost everything working, except for one category on my site. All the other category links work, as well as contact us, etc., but when I click on the one category I get the following error:

Multiple Choices

The document name you requested (/index.php) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.
Available documents:

/index.html?/category-name-c-1 (common basename)
Please consider informing the owner of the referring page about the broken link.

Any ideas?

Hey Guys,
Thank god i found this support thread, this is the only place in zencart forum where there is a mention of Simple SEO URL, i have 2 questions, i managed to install the module and i believe it works fine since all my categories are now using new aliases instead of the old php URLs which consisted of IDs and Cpath,

1. i was wondering if there is a quick way, besides aliasing, to change the last alphabets of my products URL, which is usually in this format category1/line-e-2-p-34 ; category2/line-e-23-p-145 ; etc, i wanted to get rid of p-34 and p-145 and i wanted a quicker way than changing the aliases for more than 300 products, but if there isnt i'll just do it the alias way,
2. My second question is how do u get a zen cart website to rank in google and other SEO engines? is there some sort of step-by-step way to follow, or i need to just get a seo book or sth and read it?
   Tnx guys for your help,
   Joe

@planatgenetYour problem was that when the es.php file is uploaded, it was not uploaded with the right encoding (I suppose on some ftp clients there may be some settings that need to be set to upload file with utf8 content correctly

neodolphin:

Yes indeed, it's "16|Beta 3.7.1" but the problem with the over and over rewriting still existing unless I modify the file config.php and not local.config.php :no:

I think I'm going to stay like this and think to migrate to another solution for the website if my boss is okay with it.

Big thanks for your help :) see ya
Huhm, if you would like to, pm me your ftp and admin temporary login info and I will help you to fix it.

Regards