Guest Posted June 12, 2005 Posted June 12, 2005 One of the suggestion I received for my site was to remove the index.php from "continue" buttons and the breadcrumb trail so when you return to the main page it is www.yoursite/ instead of www.yoursite/index.php. This was suggested for SEO reasons. To do this go to catalog/includes/filesnames.php and add; define('FILENAME_HOME', '/'); CONTINUE BUTTON To change the buttons search your site for; <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . '</a>'; ?> And replace with; <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_HOME) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . '</a>'; ?> The only change being DEFAULT changed to HOME. There are not many instances of this so it is easy to do, I found none in the admin side so a site search and replace should be okay. :-" BREADCRUMB TRAIL To change the breadcrumb trail open catalog/includes/application.top and find; //$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_TOP, HTTP_SERVER); $breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT)); And replace with; //$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_TOP, HTTP_SERVER); $breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_HOME)); That's all. This will take the file index.php out of your file names and so all pages will link back to your main domain (www.yoursite.com/) and avoid any chance of SE's seeing it as duplicate page content. Thanks to misterbling for the tip, much appreciated. Peter
Guest Posted June 14, 2005 Posted June 14, 2005 <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . '</a>'; ?> In which file can I find above line?
Guest Posted June 14, 2005 Posted June 14, 2005 In which file can I find above line? If you have a good PHP editor you should be able to search for it. My site is very modified so I can't tell you for sure what pages it is on. Try; shopping_cart.php logoff.php gv_redeem.php cookie_usage.php and maybe the info box pages
billybrag Posted June 28, 2005 Posted June 28, 2005 Thanks for the great tip I have a quick q though i have implemented this so that when i click on the stores logo it does the same and it does work however it gives www. mydomain.co.uk// i have tried changing the code define('FILENAME_HOME', '/'); to define('FILENAME_HOME', ''); but that throws up an error?! any ideas? thanks again "because it'll hurt more"- the greatest film of all time?
moonbeam Posted June 29, 2005 Posted June 29, 2005 Thanks for the advise, Now my site reads http//:mysite.com// Is that right? 2(//) on the end? Thanks again, Moon "Woohoo, Just Havin Funnn!"
Guest Posted June 29, 2005 Posted June 29, 2005 www. mydomain.co.uk// Now my site reads http//:mysite.com//Is that right? 2(//) on the end? It is probably caused by a variation between our configure.php files.
moonbeam Posted June 29, 2005 Posted June 29, 2005 It is probably caused by a variation between our configure.php files. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So.... , it shouldn't be this way? With the two ( // ). Thanks, Moon "Woohoo, Just Havin Funnn!"
billybrag Posted June 30, 2005 Posted June 30, 2005 So.... , it shouldn't be this way?With the two ( // ). Thanks, Moon <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i cant get this to stop it, i have compared the two config files and there is nothing obvious, any suggestions? "because it'll hurt more"- the greatest film of all time?
moonbeam Posted July 1, 2005 Posted July 1, 2005 Yeh, me to... I compared the two myself, don't see a difference. Oddly enough I installed Ultimate SEO url's and now all works fine. The double / / is gone...Go figure! Moon "Woohoo, Just Havin Funnn!"
billybrag Posted July 5, 2005 Posted July 5, 2005 thanks to help from java roasters and yesudo, this now works with in includes/functions/html_output.php change: if ($connection == 'NONSSL') { $link = HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG; } elseif ($connection == 'SSL') { if (ENABLE_SSL == true) { $link = HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG; } else { $link = HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG; } } else { die('</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Error!</b></font><br><br><b>Unable to determine connection method on a link!<br><br>Known methods: NONSSL SSL</b><br><br>'); } To: if($page = '/') { if ($connection == 'NONSSL') { $link = HTTP_SERVER; } elseif ($connection == 'SSL') { if (ENABLE_SSL == true) { $link = HTTPS_SERVER; } else { $link = HTTP_SERVER; } } else { die('</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Error!</b></font><br><br><b>Unable to determine connection method on a link!<br><br>Known methods: NONSSL SSL</b><br><br>'); } } else { if ($connection == 'NONSSL') { $link = HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG; } elseif ($connection == 'SSL') { if (ENABLE_SSL == true) { $link = HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG; } else { $link = HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG; } } else { die('</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br><br><font color="#ff0000"><b>Error!</b></font><br><br><b>Unable to determine connection method on a link!<br><br>Known methods: NONSSL SSL</b><br><br>'); } } This will allow tep_href_link to work with FILENAME_HOME without duplicating "because it'll hurt more"- the greatest film of all time?
Guest Posted July 22, 2005 Posted July 22, 2005 Just an FYI; Anyone usine a "browse by categories" type of contribution in the sub you might have a link back to index.php Also The manufacturers box has reference to index.php Also the header image by default might be a link to index.php IMPORTANT to remove all index.php if we're going this route. I really bungled my site but will be ok the next PR update due to this. ie; http://www.misterbling.com PR2 /index.php PR2 Should have been http://www.misterbling.com PR4 /index.php PR0 How can I be sure you say? Every link from my homepage of PR2 is a PR 3 LOL. My sitemap is a PR 3, My products are even higher or the same PR as the homepage. Seem I shot myself in the foot because I didn't seek out all the index.php references. Any other index.php's found please let me know. tool to find out; http://www.gritechnologies.com/ tool with PR results; (use google option) http://mesoimpact.com/spider/
Guest Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 Thanks! This was on my list of things to figure out. :)
Guest Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 One of the suggestion I received for my site was to remove the index.php from "continue" buttons and the breadcrumb trail so when you return to the main page it is www.yoursite/ instead of www.yoursite/index.php.? This was suggested for SEO reasons. To do this go to catalog/includes/filesnames.php and add; ?define('FILENAME_HOME', '/'); CONTINUE BUTTON To change the buttons search your site for; <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . '</a>'; ?> And replace with; <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_HOME) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . '</a>'; ?> The only change being DEFAULT changed to HOME.? There are not many instances of this so it is easy to do, I found none in the admin side so a site search and replace should be okay.? :-" BREADCRUMB TRAIL To change the breadcrumb trail open catalog/includes/application.top and find; ?//$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_TOP, HTTP_SERVER); ?$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT)); And replace with; ?//$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_TOP, HTTP_SERVER); ?$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_HOME)); That's all.? This will take the file index.php out of your file names and so all pages will link back to your main domain (www.yoursite.com/) and avoid any chance of SE's seeing it as duplicate page content. Thanks to misterbling for the tip, much appreciated. Peter <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is there any reason why you cant just change FILENAME_DEFAULT to define('FILENAME_DEFAULT', '/'); Just wondering as it seems a little easier...
rommany Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 Hello Great tip and it works great for me so far, but i have a small problem when i change the cont button it goes from /index.php?osCAdminID=9913d3649e6dc910e9ee2d37269a6af4 to /?osCAdminID=9913d3649e6dc910e9ee2d37269a6af4 is it possible to remove the ?oscAdmin part or im i stuck with this ? Kind regards
rommany Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 Sorry me again I sorted the above part out just by removing the numbers and osc bit, looks like it works ok, but one more little thing. in the catagories box when clicked opens a page Eg baby shoes co.uk/index.php?cName=baby-shoes came up when i changed the DEFAULT to HOME the index.php went but so did the baby shoes bit and i was left with numbers EG 21-28 I have installed Chemos Ultimate so not sure what else i would need to change for this to remove the index.php part but keep my baby shoes bit. Kind regards
♥stubbsy Posted October 2, 2005 Posted October 2, 2005 Thanks for the tips, work great. The only thing missing was to change the link when you click on the logo for the site which you can do in includes/header.php find around line 57 <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '"> and replace with <a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_HOME) . '"> cheers stubbsy
AnnasAttic Posted October 23, 2005 Posted October 23, 2005 I am getting the double /. However when I change code in html_output.php I get parse error? Just wondering if anybody else having same problem? Other than that this works great, was wanting this on my website. Thanks to all for this.
toystoreking Posted November 2, 2005 Posted November 2, 2005 How about just doing a permanent redirect?
Guest Posted November 17, 2005 Posted November 17, 2005 How do you do a site search and replace? One of the suggestion I received for my site was to remove the index.php from "continue" buttons and the breadcrumb trail so when you return to the main page it is www.yoursite/ instead of www.yoursite/index.php. This was suggested for SEO reasons. To do this go to catalog/includes/filesnames.php and add; define('FILENAME_HOME', '/'); CONTINUE BUTTON To change the buttons search your site for; <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . '</a>'; ?> And replace with; <?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_HOME) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . '</a>'; ?> The only change being DEFAULT changed to HOME. There are not many instances of this so it is easy to do, I found none in the admin side so a site search and replace should be okay. :-" BREADCRUMB TRAIL To change the breadcrumb trail open c atalog/includes/application.top and find; //$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_TOP, HTTP_SERVER); $breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT)); And replace with; //$breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_TOP, HTTP_SERVER); $breadcrumb->add(HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG, tep_href_link(FILENAME_HOME)); That's all. This will take the file index.php out of your file names and so all pages will link back to your main domain (www.yoursite.com/) and avoid any chance of SE's seeing it as duplicate page content. Thanks to misterbling for the tip, much appreciated. Peter
♥yesudo Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 How do you do a site search and replace? Use a text search tool like wingrep. Your online success is Paramount.
Guest Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 doesn't seem to work for me. if i use billybrag's edit (along with java roaster's... which made http://www.mysite.com// ) it just shows all the subcategories with the cPath in the url
lrparr Posted December 13, 2005 Posted December 13, 2005 I'm having trouble removing all index.php's. Can someone tell me what the risk is of having them reference? Thanks, I know it's probably a stupid ?
Guest Posted December 30, 2005 Posted December 30, 2005 I'm having trouble removing all index.php's. Can someone tell me what the risk is of having them reference? Thanks, I know it's probably a stupid ? It is for the search engines as they see www.yourdomain.com/ and www.yourdomain.com/index.php as two seperate pages both with identical content. This will cause them to split your Page Rank between the two pages or maybe even penalize you a bit for having identical pages. So if you remove all links to index.php then you are left with just one page and that should give you better Search Engine placement. HTH
Guest Posted December 30, 2005 Posted December 30, 2005 i take it this edit doesn't work well with certain url rewrite contributions? :) i use nimmit's and i experienced the problem 2 posts up, but it seems to work fine on your site java roasters
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