Simple SEO URL (OLD version) [support thread]

For a faster fix, I sent you a pm to see if I can access your site. Im very interested to see why we have such problem with GoDaddy as well.

Very frustrated, but Godaddy caches .htaccess files, and renews the cache every hour or so. All the changes I tried were not reflected right away, I will try again early this morning.

Yellow,

I think you may have been speaking to bohan36, the file you linked to looks like an IIS version, can you confirm?

Thanks

Gary777

Gary777:

Yellow,

I think you may have been speaking to bohan36, the file you linked to looks like an IIS version, can you confirm?

Thanks

Gary777
It actually is the same as the Linux version, but it uses $_SERVER var instead of getenv.

This is just a note to all the testers:
Since the early versions of SSU had problems with PayPal IPN, it was one of my biggest concerns in testing the new version. And I'm glad to announce that all my test orders on 3.2.4 went through with no problem.

If someone is using GoDaddy and if you can set up a test server to test it out, it will be greatly appreciated. GoDaddy has been known to give us lots of headache so far (Paypal IPN problems, curl problems, ....)

yellow1912:

Very frustrated, but Godaddy caches .htaccess files, and renews the cache every hour or so. All the changes I tried were not reflected right away, I will try again early this morning.

Thanks so much for taking the time tonight Yellow. I had no idea that the .htaccess file only renewed once an hour. I had tried making some minor changes to it to no avail... not even breaking it when I expected to. That explains why.

I'll talk to you more tomorrow about it. Thanks again.

Tom

If you are using GoDaddy and has some problem with SSU, You may want to try comment out the Follow SymLink part as suggested here:

http://www.mambotastic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=47

(it's for Joomla, but yeah, GoDaddy again)

As promised, here is the (draft)guide for writing your own language parser:

http://wiki.rubikintegration.com/zencart/modules/ssu/parsers/language_parser

This new functionality gives you unlimited control over the way you want to display the "names" on your link without touching the core code. Just be very careful tho, always urlencode the name.

Thanks yellow,
I did the quick fix by changing file names, will definitely contact my host about changing version. I would have thought they'd be on php5 by now... christ knows why they're not.

I have another problem, additional images aren't popping up right. I don't have the large image module installed so not sure what the problem is. tried searching this thread but it's just so huge now! ah!

yellow1912:

If you are using GoDaddy and has some problem with SSU, You may want to try comment out the Follow SymLink part as suggested here:

http://www.mambotastic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=47

(it's for Joomla, but yeah, GoDaddy again)

Hmmm... it looks like there should have been plenty of time for the .htaccess file to refresh since last night. Bad news, it still doesn't seem to be working.

bohan36:

Hmmm... it looks like there should have been plenty of time for the .htaccess file to refresh since last night. Bad news, it still doesn't seem to be working.
I'm using version Seo 2.8 on Godaddy with no problems. You might want to downgrade until yellow gets the other version right.

Hi Yellow,
please check. with SSU 3.2.3 and 3.2.4:

1. if try to change currency in currency box, I got 404 error (SSU off-work)

2. When SSU is off and I use "Choose manufacture box" I got :
   GET /index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=4 200OK

but when SSU is on:
GET /index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=4 301 Moved permanently

Thanks

bohan36:

Hmmm... it looks like there should have been plenty of time for the .htaccess file to refresh since last night. Bad news, it still doesn't seem to be working.
It is actually very weird, I even commented out the redirection rule to stop it, still doesnt work.

xordox:

Hi Yellow,
please check. with SSU 3.2.3 and 3.2.4:

1. if try to change currency in currency box, I got 404 error (SSU off-work)

2. When SSU is off and I use "Choose manufacture box" I got :
   GET /index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=4 200OK

but when SSU is on:
GET /index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=4 301 Moved permanently

Thanks
Fixed.

Please note: Currency selection may not work in multi-lang module, for the reason why please see includes/init_includes/init_currencies.php

To make it short: each language has a default currency, zen check if it needs to force the use of default currency

// Validate language-currency and default-currency if relevant. Is false if valid not found.
if ($new_currency == false || isset($_GET['language'])) $new_currency = (USE_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_CURRENCY == 'true') ? zen_currency_exists(LANGUAGE_CURRENCY) : $new_currency;

If you still want to use the currency box, go to:
admin/configuration.php?gID=1&cID=7, change "Switch To Default Language Currency" to false.

bohan36:

Hmmm... it looks like there should have been plenty of time for the .htaccess file to refresh since last night. Bad news, it still doesn't seem to be working.
You have both ultimate seo and ssu installed, and that seems to mess things up real bad, in fact I couldnt even visit the admin page.
I would suggest removing either one first.

Regards

epsports:

Problem still exists with login in the exclude list. It seems to be when it redirects to the homepage. With yours you get a perfect url, with mine you get a random / and the durplicate zenid.
What is it that generates that zenid? any way to remove it?
Any ideas if there would be a way to specify a particular generic 'success' page for after login? rather than it directing back the previous page? I just need a workaround of some sort for now. The site is live and it is essential I have the mod functioning for the cats and prods.
Oh the joys!
Chris

Did you install Ultimate SEO, then uninstall it then install Simple SEO? I am having the same error as you are. I had installed Ultimate SEP, and did not like it, then installed Simple SEO and I just discovered this issue.

Maybe I need to start with a clean install.

What plugins do you have on your site?

Having two modules trying to parse the url and doing the redirection will always mess things up. I recommend trying a clean install, on a test site. If you have any problem, it will be easier for me to help you on a test site as well (I dont want to mess up your live site)

jlabresh1:

Did you install Ultimate SEO, then uninstall it then install Simple SEO? I am having the same error as you are. I had installed Ultimate SEP, and did not like it, then installed Simple SEO and I just discovered this issue.

Maybe I need to start with a clean install.

What plugins do you have on your site?

That is exactlly what I did. I thought I uninstalled it but clearly not. Thank you Yellow for spending so much time on this. I'm going to try a clean install, I just need to research on here how to backup products and such properly.

Just create a subfolder called test, then install a new zencart on it, then we can test and see if it works, if it does, then we will go back and clean up the original one.

That will save your time ^_^

3.2.7 is now available with fixed and improved link alias caching. Let me know how it works out for you.
(Note:3.2.x is still in alpha testing, do not use on live sites)
Regards

Raine