Please Help - Bad Links In Category Listing Box

[Guest]

I have checked so many other OsCommerce websites looking for the solution to this problem....but I still cannot figure it out.

 

Here on my website: http://www.dutchflowers.com all of the Category Links do not take you to

the correct Category...they just bring you back to the index.php

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks again,

John

[Guest]

Here is something I just noticed.....

 

Other folks links have an Session ID # like this one:

http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/catalog/index....613c109e8913d39

 

Mine just look like this:

http://www.dutchflowers.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=24

 

I also just noticed I have a ? where they have a/ between

php and cPath.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks again,

John

[Guest]

I feel better now.......If many people replied to my question - I would feel stupid that so many

others knew what I didn't....Sort of like not answering a question correctly on Jeopardy, but

the other two guys got it right....

 

No one else can figure out why the Category links do not work on my site, so now I do not

feel as dumb as I potentially could have.....Sort of like not answering a question correctly on Jeopardy,

but neither do the other two guys...

 

Thanks,

John

 

 

 

Here is something I just noticed.....

 

Other folks links have an Session ID # like this one:

http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/catalog/index....613c109e8913d39

 

Mine just look like this:

http://www.dutchflowers.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=24

 

I also just noticed I have a ? where they have a/ between

php and cPath.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks again,

John

[Guest]

Things really were going great until I tried to change the wording at the top of

my index.php. I saved the index.php that had been working, and uploaded the new one.

 

I then noticed that all of my "Categories" link when clicked on returned you back to the index.php, and not to the selected category. When you click on the images featured in the "New Products For June" section, they work just fine...just the "Categories" links.

 

Thank you for any ideas you might have to fix this.

 

John

[Guest]

I now officially give up.

 

I cannot get Google Checkout to work, and no one can offer any help.

PayPal has been problem ridden, and no one can offer any help.

For no apparent reason, the links on the left side of my page want to

bring you to the index.php, and not to the correct category..and no one

can offer any help.

 

Thanks anyway.

 

John

[Guest]

Goto your osc admin->configuration->cache and disable it. (set it to false).

[Guest]

Hey Mark,

Thank you for your reply. I checked, and it already was set to "false."

Is there anything else you can think of that is causing this to happen,

not only from the front page, but from all of the pages as well.

 

http://www.dutchflowers.com

 

Thank you again,

John

[Guest]

the next thing to check will be your catalog\.htaccess

 

Is there a difference from the stock osc .htaccess and if so what is it?

[Guest]

Both look to be exactly the same.

[Guest]

okay, have you done mods to catalog\includes\application_top.php? If you did try with the stock osc file. (backup your own first).

[Guest]

No...didn't touch that either...just the index.php

When I noticed the problem, I reloaded the backed-up

version of the index.php, and that too didn't work.

 

I also noticed that the date and hit counted at the bottom

is stuck on the index.php - but not on the other pages....weird.

 

Thanks,

John

[Guest]

so what modules have you installed? Any cache modules? Is like the response for the index.php is instantaneous. Like the dbase is not used. Because I checked the html source and the session id is different than the one created. You can see that if you go straight to a different page and then clicking the categories where the links show with a different id.

 

Looks like the index.php is cached. Copy the index.php to index2.php upload it then see if that works.

 

Also you mentioned your .htaccess is the same as the stock osc. But when I go to the root of the domain I get a redirect to the catalog\index.php (why is that?). So check the parent .htaccess file also because it can override everything.