Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

yellow1912:

Your template is missing the base href in the header

this will help you: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=683905&postcount=2221

yellow1912, you just resolved my problem.

The person who set up Zen Cart (my predecessor) had commented out the line...

...in the html_header.php file. Do you know why he would have done that? He didn't leave any comments.

Anyway, thanks for your help. Now I can see how excellent your add on is. Very good work.

hello,
if the product name is
a'c

it shows correctly in browser:
a-c

but if the product name is
d'c

it only shows:
c

what do i fix this problem? thanks

Prime:

yellow1912, you just resolved my problem.

The person who set up Zen Cart (my predecessor) had commented out the line...

<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>" />

...in the html_header.php file. Do you know why he would have done that? He didn't leave any comments.

Anyway, thanks for your help. Now I can see how excellent your add on is. Very good work.
Not sure why, very bad practice indeed. I cant think of a reason to comment it out (yet)

bear1728:

hello,
if the product name is
a'c

it shows correctly in browser:
a-c

but if the product name is
d'c

it only shows:
c

what do i fix this problem? thanks
huhm, that would be weird, Do you have a full link you can post here?

Hi there, I used this addon on a zencart I made back in March. It works perfectly and it's an absolutely fantastic mod (thanks yellow).

I want to design another zencart based on the one I made in March so I downloaded it from the server, copied the database etc etc uploaded it to my local machine and the home page appears in my localhost fine but when I click a link it comes up with a 404 not found. I'm assuming it's this mod that is the problem and it presumably has something to do with the htaccess, so I ran the ssu_check.php and changed the htaccess according to what that said.

That didn't work - still got the 404, so I thought since the database and the website are exactly the same as the working one online then maybe the apache rewrite mod isn't on since it's a new installation of apache I was using. But it's turned on by htaccess and i turned it on in the apache conf file too.

So then I removed all the files associated with ssu and tried to uninstall the mod according to http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zencart/modules/ssu/uninstallation. I then downloaded a new copy of the mod and tried to reinstall it. But the bits where you have to install the patches by visiting admin→extras→ssu manager etc just gave errors about tables existing and so forth.

So basically before I go through all this again, because i'm sure it's just something simple I'm missing since it works fine online, can anyone suggest anything that might be the problem?

thanks

Hi I am having trouble with modifying some of the aliases in the alias manager.

For example
http://www.highburyeye.co.nz/sunglasses-c-9/

I would prefer to display as
http://www.highburyeye.co.nz/sunglasses

I have added an alias for the url /sunglasses-c-9/ to equal /sunglasses/

But this dosnt seem to work?

Have also tried editing existing alisas and the visible displayed url dosnt change.

I have tried resetting the cache, but my cache never has any files in it, ever. Not sure if cache is working how it is meant to. Cache dirs are all there set to 777, but never seen any files in the dirs.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony

tone2:

Hi I am having trouble with modifying some of the aliases in the alias manager.

For example
http://www.highburyeye.co.nz/sunglasses-c-9/

I would prefer to display as
http://www.highburyeye.co.nz/sunglasses

I have added an alias for the url /sunglasses-c-9/ to equal /sunglasses/

But this dosnt seem to work?

Have also tried editing existing alisas and the visible displayed url dosnt change.

I have tried resetting the cache, but my cache never has any files in it, ever. Not sure if cache is working how it is meant to. Cache dirs are all there set to 777, but never seen any files in the dirs.

As for alias, did you turn alias on via admin-configuration-ssu setings?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony
First, I would suggest you make sure to check cache folder permission again, and also check if the path to your cache folder is correct in includes/configure.php and your-admin/includes/configure.php

Also, you have not edit the html_output.php file as instructed in the installation note.

:smile:Thanks it was the path to the cache that was wrong in configure.php files.

Seems to be working just fine now!

Thanks for your help.

Tony

I have used it on few sites, sometimes it work and sometimes need to make it work with little changes, but its good SEO Contribution

Hi, you installed this mod for me a while ago but since then I have gone from a shared SSL to a dedicated one and it is causing problems. Can you tell me how to fix it?

borobabe:

Hi, you installed this mod for me a while ago but since then I have gone from a shared SSL to a dedicated one and it is causing problems. Can you tell me how to fix it?
If it has been a while, first I suggest upgrading the module (this is optional, not a must)

But to solve it, it is easy:
You need to go you yoursite.com/ssu_check.php (if you deleted it, download the newest version and upload only that file to your site). Visit that file via your browser and you will see the suggested htaccess for your site, then edit your .htaccess file accordingly

Hi,

First of all thanks for the module, it works great on Zencart and your instructions are very straightforward.

My issue is that I am running Joomla and Zencart together (both with SEO urls turned on) when I add the code you provided to the .htaccess file it makes my Joomla pages default to the shop.

My file structure is arranged as follows:

** urbanfoodie.net

subdomain.urbanfoodie.net

joomla folders
shop (zen cart folders)**

So in the .htaccess file I have:

RewriteBase /shop/

which is the same as what is in my configure.php:

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/shop/');

But, as I say, this is causing all the urls to add /shop/in front of them, including the Joomla pages.

I'm afraid I'm not very good with .htaccess files, but I'm sure there must be a way of coding it so that it only affects the files in the shop folder?

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

The htaccess for the zencart store, in this case, should be add to the htaccess file under the shop folder.

brand new test site... this thing works great... but my manufacturers look pretty gross...

When I select one from the first page, it looks like this..

http://localhost/www.testsite.com/httpdocs/index/manufacturers_id/1

when I so a sort by mfg in a category it looks like this...

http://localhost/www.testsite.com/httpdocs/acura-integra-90-93-c-1_2?sort=20a&filter_id=1&alpha_filter_id=0

it has no mention of the manufacturer in either url.. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Thanks...

I downloaded the lastest verision of this from the "easy templates" website, I hope that's the right one..
:smile:

edwardtilbury:

brand new test site... this thing works great... but my manufacturers look pretty gross...

When I select one from the first page, it looks like this..

http://localhost/www.testsite.com/httpdocs/index/manufacturers_id/1

when I so a sort by mfg in a category it looks like this...

http://localhost/www.testsite.com/httpdocs/acura-integra-90-93-c-1_2?sort=20a&filter_id=1&alpha_filter_id=0

it has no mention of the manufacturer in either url.. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Thanks...

I downloaded the lastest verision of this from the "easy templates" website, I hope that's the right one..
:smile:
You need to enable manufacturer parser as it is not enabled by default. It's very simply to enable it, just check the includes/classes/ssu/local.config.php.sample I believe, just uncomment the code.

To understand more, please read:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zencart/modules/ssu/config

Check the additional parsers

yellow1912:

You need to enable manufacturer parser as it is not enabled by default. It's very simply to enable it, just check the includes/classes/ssu/local.config.php.sample I believe, just uncomment the code.

To understand more, please read:
http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zencart/modules/ssu/config

Check the additional parsers
AWESOME! Now choosing a MFG from my index page works great.. At least for SEOness I think...
I can now do this..
cars.com/mercedes-benz

This is great, now my MFG's are looking clean too.

I don't know if it's possible, but is there a way to fix the SORT manufacturers once someone has entered a category...

For instance.. let's say Jon Doe clicks on

cars.com/sedans/luxurycars

but then he wants to sort by only "Mercedes-Benz" as a manufacturer.. he get's a URL like this...

cars.com/sedans/luxurycars/BenzSLK-c-1_2?sort=20a&filter_id=1&alpha_filter_id=0

Is it not possible for it to look like this...

cars.com/sedans/luxurycars/Mercedes-Benz

From the main index page it works just fine.. I can select Mercedes-Benz just fine.. but then I cannot filter conveniently since all I can do is then choose an alphabetical filter, which just isn't enough in my case.

If it's not possible, no biggie, but it would be an awesome addition for the next version.. ;)

in either case I will be switching to Simple SEO.

Hi,

Is it possible to remove the basedir using Simple SEO URL?

For example:

http://website.com/zencart/product-name

becomes:

http://website.com/product-name

...or do you have to either move Zen Cart to the root directory or do fancy mod rewriting?

Prime:

Hi,

Is it possible to remove the basedir using Simple SEO URL?

For example:

http://website.com/zencart/product-name

becomes:

http://website.com/product-name

...or do you have to either move Zen Cart to the root directory or do fancy mod rewriting?
You should really move up your folder to the root.

edwardtilbury:

AWESOME! Now choosing a MFG from my index page works great.. At least for SEOness I think...
I can now do this..
cars.com/mercedes-benz

This is great, now my MFG's are looking clean too.

I don't know if it's possible, but is there a way to fix the SORT manufacturers once someone has entered a category...

For instance.. let's say Jon Doe clicks on

cars.com/sedans/luxurycars

but then he wants to sort by only "Mercedes-Benz" as a manufacturer.. he get's a URL like this...

cars.com/sedans/luxurycars/BenzSLK-c-1_2?sort=20a&filter_id=1&alpha_filter_id=0

Is it not possible for it to look like this...

cars.com/sedans/luxurycars/Mercedes-Benz

From the main index page it works just fine.. I can select Mercedes-Benz just fine.. but then I cannot filter conveniently since all I can do is then choose an alphabetical filter, which just isn't enough in my case.

If it's not possible, no biggie, but it would be an awesome addition for the next version.. ;)

in either case I will be switching to Simple SEO.
The sort and filter_id and alpha_filter_id was left as query strings as recommended by google guideline. however Im not sure why you get **BenzSLK-c-1_2 **you should not see c-1_2 if you turn auto alias on and your category and product names are unique.

Hello,

I have installed zen cart 1.3.8a and its working fine.

Now i try to install ssu 3.6.7 beta , i have uploaded all file properly and then when i go to admin>>extra>>simple seo url manager, it show me blank page.

Please suggest.

Thanks