[Contribution] Ultimate SEO URLs - by Chemo

aspiringarts · February 8, 2005

There are no line breaks. IS there anything else you could think of??

-Aaron

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Aaron, as a fellow Apple :thumbsup: user, here is a suggestion. Do you have BBEdit Lite? If so, you can use it (or similar program) to show invisible characters, then use Zap Gremlins to get rid of any characters that don't belong in your file. Line breaks that don't show up in a normal text editor may be one such type of character. I can't tell you how many times that has saved me from bizarro errors on my oscommerce site! :D

Susan

February 8, 2005

Bobby,

On my version of osC, every table name has the prefix "oscommerce_". I had to change some of install-seo.php to get round that. Is it possible that this is happening again? If I restore application_top.php, the site works again, is there something I could have missed in there?

Cheers,

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I reserve comment since I don't know how your code is calling the table prefix and your setup. Sorry...

Bobby

TomCavendish · February 8, 2005

OK...you are using an MS2-CVS release which is just above MS1. It is not the same code and the same steps cannot be used to install it.

Since MS2-CVS changed from day to day there is no way to tell you which snapshot you are using. The only way to get this installed is look at each step and merge the changes with your existing code. It can be done...I've installed it on several MS1 stores successfully.

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I'm getting there. :-"

I've now got it as far as clicking on a product displays the product details, and correctly shows the URL under the pName setting:

http://www.mysite.com/catalog/catalog/prod...name-of-product

However, when I switch to the 'Rewrite' option (which is the one I REALLY want to use), the URL is correct in the form of:

http://www.mysite.com/catalog/catalog/name-of-product.html

But it produces a 404 page, rather than display the product details page.

Any ideas? :'(

February 8, 2005

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY TOM JUST GIVE ME AN FTP ACCOUNT AND LET ME INSTALL IT FOR YOU!

:)

Seriously, I've never seen anyone try so hard with as much tenacity. You deserve to have this installed on your site. Setup a TEMPORARY FTP account for me and send me the credentials VIA email (not PM). My private message box gets filled up about every 2 days so gets dumped often.

Bobby

Xaco · February 8, 2005

OK...you are using an MS2-CVS release which is just above MS1. It is not the same code and the same steps cannot be used to install it.

Since MS2-CVS changed from day to day there is no way to tell you which snapshot you are using. The only way to get this installed is look at each step and merge the changes with your existing code. It can be done...I've installed it on several MS1 stores successfully.

Bobby

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Hi Bobby.

Do you think if could be possible intall your contribution in a 2.2 CVS store version????

Thank you very much.

February 8, 2005

Depends on how similar it is to the final MS2 release. Actually, it can be installed on any flavor but minor changes need to be merged. I've installed this on a few MS1 stores and also 1 tep2.1 store!

It's just a matter of knowing how to merge the code...

Bobby

panzz · February 8, 2005

Thin this is the right place, please help me....

Tried upgrade form 1.4 -> 2.0, but when I call the install-seo.php I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /homepages/14/d13488967/htdocs/includes/seo_cache.php on line 47

Thanks & Greets,

Panzz

royalfunk · February 8, 2005

Aaron, as a fellow Apple :thumbsup: user, here is a suggestion. Do you have BBEdit Lite? If so, you can use it (or similar program) to show invisible characters, then use Zap Gremlins to get rid of any characters that don't belong in your file. Line breaks that don't show up in a normal text editor may be one such type of character. I can't tell you how many times that has saved me from bizarro errors on my oscommerce site! :D

Susan

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Thanks Susan (and Chemo). After looking at the HTML output of the META DESCRIPTION, it does appear that some products will fall suspect to line breaks. This is actually a blessing in disguise.

I plan on going into the database and admin side to write a new field into the product addition/modification process so that users can input custom keywords or descriptions for each product. This way, if custom keywords/descriptions are present, then the page will use them. If the customer has not entered anything, then it will use a defualt set containing basic product info like name, model, manufacturer, price, etc.

Thanks again,

Aaron

Edited February 8, 2005 by royalfunk

Fourbit · February 8, 2005

Thin this is the right place, please help me....

Tried upgrade form 1.4 -> 2.0, but when I call the install-seo.php I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /homepages/14/d13488967/htdocs/includes/seo_cache.php on line 47

Thanks & Greets,

Panzz

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Howdy Panzz,

Are you using the latest and greatest version? Ultimate SEO URLs v2.0b It has special directions in it for the upgrade. I haven't used them yet. Since I just noticed the newest version 2.0b. But, I will.

Paul

Edited February 8, 2005 by Fourbit

panzz · February 8, 2005

@paul

yes I do use Version 2.0b - upgrade instructions and always this error message:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /homepages/14/d13488967/htdocs/includes/seo_cache.php on line 47

please help?

greets,

panzz

Edited February 8, 2005 by panzz

February 8, 2005

Thin this is the right place, please help me....

Tried upgrade form 1.4 -> 2.0, but when I call the install-seo.php I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /homepages/14/d13488967/htdocs/includes/seo_cache.php on line 47

Thanks & Greets,

Panzz

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You failed to read the BIG, RED, BOLD text in step#2 that says:

NOTE: You MUST do this step before the code modifications! You have been warned!

Did you think I was kidding?

Go to application_top.php and comment out the code that was added. Don't delete it...just comment it out.

Next, execute the install scripts PER THE INSTRUCTIONS. Read the instructions.

After you have executed the install scripts go back to application_top.php and uncomment the code.

Bobby

panzz · February 8, 2005

@Chemo

So i missunerstand the instructions a bit.

I try this now, posting back in a few minutes.

Thanks & Greets,

panzz

panzz · February 8, 2005

@Bobby

Many thanks for the small hint, now it works great.

Can I now delete my "seo_cache" Dir now?

Thanks & greets,

Panzz

frenchy · February 8, 2005

:thumbsup: Thanks a lot for your work Chemo this contrib work nicely with loaded6 !!!!!Arghhhhhhh!!! :D

but I benefit from it to ask you a question, know you how I could make so that that my customers can place their order starting from their corporate network, because when that I connect myself has customer through a firewall on my shop, (for information: I use a share ssl) I am authenticated and that I pass from a https link to http link, I lose my personal parameters , if I click has new on a https link I retrieve my session, has you got an idea about this?

Thanks in advance for your help :blush:

moonpie · February 8, 2005

Hi again, Bobby -

You said the following:

>> You should not have any entries in the root level .htaccess file other than a possible redirect.

>> To be honest, I would not use them in the root file and instead would use a PHP based

>> header redirect (with 301 header of course).

The only .htaccess file right now at all that's there, is in /Thoomp/catalog - I also tried placing an .htaccess file in root, but with no success.

The redirect that I probably mentioned is just an "index.html' page, which has a javascript redirect to: /Thoomp/catalog/index.php - Nothing fancy in the least bit.

PHP based header redirect? Scratching my head here, and I'll have to look it up. Do I need one to get this to work?

I checked httpd.conf of the server, and it seems that the rewrite engine module is set to "on."

Still confused and without out luck. Thanks, Bobby!

- Seth <>

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Hi Seth,

I'm running OSX and was having the same problem with configuring the .htaccess file.

The problem is in the httpd.conf file. Default setting for AllowOverride for .htaccess files is None. It needs to be set to All. Here's the fix.

Open httpd.conf file. Find the follow lines:

#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo", 
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
   AllowOverride None

and replace with:

#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo", 
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
   AllowOverride All

Make sure you restart the server for the changes to take effect. Good Luck.

Sincraft · February 8, 2005

Bobby,

I am not sure if this Spiders.txt is updated. I took a look through your contrib and there were no spiders.txt files So, I am going to post it here and hopefully you could update it for me as I am still churning out Session IDs on MSN, am not ranked at all on Google or Yahoo...and starting to get a bit antsy about ranking so I want to make sure I have everything correct hehe. TY

S

$Id: spiders.txt,v 1.2 2003/05/05 17:58:17 dgw_ Exp $

almaden.ibm.com

appie 1.1

architext

ask jeeves

asterias2.0

augurfind

baiduspider

bannana_bot

bdcindexer

crawler

crawler@fast

docomo

fast-webcrawler

fluffy the spider

frooglebot

geobot

googlebot

gulliver

henrythemiragorobot

ia_archiver

infoseek

kit_fireball

lachesis

lycos_spider

mantraagent

mercator

moget/1.0

muscatferret

nationaldirectory-webspider

naverrobot

ncsa beta

netresearchserver

ng/1.0

osis-project

polybot

pompos

scooter

seventwentyfour

sidewinder

sleek spider

slurp/si

[email protected]

steeler/1.3

szukacz

t-h-u-n-d-e-r-s-t-o-n-e

teoma

turnitinbot

ultraseek

vagabondo

voilabot

w3c_validator

zao/0

zyborg/1.0

Also should I be flushing my cache regularally? If so how does one go about doing that? Thanks!

S

bdneuman · February 8, 2005

Bobby,
I am not sure if this Spiders.txt is updated. I took a look through your contrib and there were no spiders.txt files So, I am going to post it here and hopefully you could update it for me as I am still churning out Session IDs on MSN, am not ranked at all on Google or Yahoo...and starting to get a bit antsy about ranking so I want to make sure I have everything correct hehe. TY

S

$Id: spiders.txt,v 1.2 2003/05/05 17:58:17 dgw_ Exp $

almaden.ibm.com

appie 1.1

architext

ask jeeves

asterias2.0

augurfind

baiduspider

bannana_bot

bdcindexer

crawler

crawler@fast

docomo

fast-webcrawler

fluffy the spider

frooglebot

geobot

googlebot

gulliver

henrythemiragorobot

ia_archiver

infoseek

kit_fireball

lachesis

lycos_spider

mantraagent

mercator

moget/1.0

muscatferret

nationaldirectory-webspider

naverrobot

ncsa beta

netresearchserver

ng/1.0

osis-project

polybot

pompos

scooter

seventwentyfour

sidewinder

sleek spider

slurp/si

[email protected]

steeler/1.3

szukacz

t-h-u-n-d-e-r-s-t-o-n-e

teoma

turnitinbot

ultraseek

vagabondo

voilabot

w3c_validator

zao/0

zyborg/1.0

Also should I be flushing my cache regularally? If so how does one go about doing that? Thanks!

S

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Here's the updated spiders list - it looks like yours is pretty old:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2455

Sincraft · February 9, 2005

I downloaded these but do not see Googlebot in those lists. And which one should i use, large or small?

Thanks brother OSCer! :)

S

Edited February 9, 2005 by Sincraft

Sincraft · February 9, 2005

Ok I added the small one, also check this out - still serving session IDS :(

/robots.txt

Http Code: 200 Date: Feb 09 01:33:23 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in Bytes: 105

Referer: -