URL rewrite

[nidhi]

Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum and new to oscommerce. Most of the people develop the site, rewrite the URLs and then go for seo. But i need to work on a site which is already doing well at google. The site's pages are all html. Main category pages are like category1.html, category2.html and so on. Product pages are named after product pages e.g. 1023.html.

Now we need to make the site in oscommerce and still not lose all those pages. How is it possible to convert the site in oscommerce and name all the category pages like category1.html and so on and product pages with their product codes like 1023.html.

I thank you all for your time.

[♥FWR Media]

Difficult.

 

The only way I can think to do it is to use ULTIMATE SEO URLS 2.1d you will see a list of 3 and it's the top of the 3 you may want.

 

With this particular one I believe you can set the seo url for each category/product individually.

 

Uploaded 29th November 2006 by Yesudo called ..

 

Ultimate SEO URLs - 2.1d with optional Admin settable Product and Category URLs

[♥toyicebear]

You probably have to use SEO-G if you want the mentioned url format

[nidhi]

I am sorry if i have not explained it properly. I need categry pages to be named as categoryname.html and product pages to be named as productcode.html. We will ensure that category names and product codes match the previous URLs.

[♥FWR Media]

I am sorry if i have not explained it properly. I need categry pages to be named as categoryname.html and product pages to be named as productcode.html. We will ensure that category names and product codes match the previous URLs.

 

 

Well here's some code that seems to work .. no guarantees though. (stock osC URLs only)

 

catalog .htaccess

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /catalog/

RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php$2?%{QUERY_STRING}

 

RewriteBase / for a root install

 

 

 

catalog/includes/application_top.php

 

Find ..

 

// set the application parameters
 $configuration_query = tep_db_query('select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from ' . TABLE_CONFIGURATION);
 while ($configuration = tep_db_fetch_array($configuration_query)) {
define($configuration['cfgKey'], $configuration['cfgValue']);
 }

 

Add below: -

 

if (false !== strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '.html'))
include('includes/functions/urlconvert.php'); //FWR Media

 

Find ..

  require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '.php');

 

Add below: -

 

( false !== strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '.html') ? UrlConvert() : NULL ); //FWR test

 

 

Put the following into a php file .. call it urlconvert.php and save it to catalog/includes/functions/

 

<?php
function UrlConvert() {
 global $HTTP_GET_VARS, $cPath_array;
$find_parts = str_replace( '/', '', strrchr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/') );
$querystring = strrchr($find_parts, '?');
$remove = array('.html', $querystring);
$name = urldecode(str_replace($remove, '', $find_parts));
$is_category = false;
$is_product = false;
$cat_result = tep_db_query("SELECT categories_id FROM categories_description WHERE categories_name = '$name'");
if ($cat_id = tep_db_fetch_array($cat_result)) $is_category = true;
else if ($is_category === false) {
$prod_result = tep_db_query("SELECT products_id FROM products_description WHERE products_name = '$name'");
if ($prod_id = tep_db_fetch_array($prod_result)) $is_product = true;
}
if ( $is_category === false && $is_product === false) die('can\'t find this one');
else if ($is_category === true) {
$cat_path = array();
$cat_path[] = $cat_id['categories_id'];
$has_parent = fwr_has_parent($cat_id['categories_id']);
if ( false !== $has_parent ) {
if (false !== $has_parent) $cat_path[] = $has_parent;
$has_parent = fwr_has_parent($has_parent);
if (false !== $has_parent) $cat_path[] = $has_parent;
$pathtomod = array_reverse($cat_path);
for ($i=0; $i<count($pathtomod); $i++)
if ( $i == (count($pathtomod)-1)) $UrlCcPath .= $pathtomod[$i];
else $UrlCcPath .= $pathtomod[$i] . '_';
} else $UrlCcPath = $cat_id['categories_id'];
$redirect = tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . $UrlCcPath);
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently"); // redirect to the good version
header("Location: $redirect"); // 301 redirect
exit;
} else if ($is_product === true) {
$redirect = tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'cPath=' . tep_get_product_path($prod_id['products_id']) . '&products_id=' . $prod_id['products_id']);
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently"); // redirect to the good version
header("Location: $redirect"); // 301 redirect
exit;
} else die('This shouldn\'t happen');
}
function fwr_has_parent($cid) {
$parent_result = tep_db_query("SELECT parent_id FROM categories WHERE categories_id = '$cid'");
if ( $has_parent = @tep_db_fetch_array($parent_result) )
if ( $has_parent['parent_id'] != '0' ) return $has_parent['parent_id'];
else return false;
}
?>

 

Very raw, I haven't cleaned it up after getting it basically to work but should give you some ideas.

 

Obviously it is vital that the productname.html .. productname must EXACTLY match the name of the category or product.

[nidhi]

Thanks a lot for your time and interest in my problem. I shall try this code.

[satish]

Thanks a lot for your time and interest in my problem. I shall try this code.

 

SEO-G by enigma allows You to specify URL name.

 

Go for it.I think it has been suggested two three posts UP I too support that post.

Plus its far superior to any other seo code.

 

Satish