Silencer Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I've just uploaded this to contributions section. This thread for questions and suggestions. Main idea of contribution - SE friendly URLs without changing a lot of osC code. Installation require adding 2 strings to 2 files and no changes on database. Must work with any osC version and any other contibutions installed. Works at http://www.mrstest.com (live shop, no test orders). Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 Ups, forgout URL for download: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1332 Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medisave Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Hello, This looks like soemthing we would be interested in using! I have loaded it up on our dedicated server: www.medisave.net but all the links work in categories, but if I try to go to a product from categories list I get nothing: The link it gives is: http://www.medisave.net/category47/product...oduct_info.html Whereas I CAN get to products from say the specials link: http://www.medisave.net/product295/product_info.html Also I cannot get the add to cart button working! Have I done something wrong? Also you mention a pro version of this product i nthe readme - what does this do - how much is it ? Graham www.medisave.co.uk PS - anything we can sell you? http://www.medisave.net/category8/default.html ? Quote Graham Wright ________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 Ups.. hasn't tested with original osC product listing, only with "columns listing". Update will be soon. Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 Update uploaded :) http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1332 For upgrade just overwrite .htaccess with new one. Problem was that i forgot about subcategories. Sorry for that, but i don't have a "testers team". Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicproshop Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Thank you for your work with this contribution. I hope to be able to make use of it. I appreciate your work, keep it up. Take care Quote Arizona Patent Services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 Please don't forget post here about sucessful installation. Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medisave Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Hello, Thanks for the update - everything working now with the categories However I am still unable to add to basket. Are there any changes I need to make in admin - I still have it all set as NOT search engine friendly URLS as I didnt think I needed to change this? Anything else causing the add to basket not to work ? cheers Graham Quote Graham Wright ________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicproshop Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Is this contribution very much different than the "SEF Urls" feature that is built into Os Commece (but still in development). Is this an improvement, does it fix some of the key problems with the other version? Thank you Quote Arizona Patent Services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 Thanks for the update - everything working now with the categories However I am still unable to add to basket. Are there any changes I need to make in admin - I still have it all set as NOT search engine friendly URLS as I didnt think I needed to change this? Anything else causing the add to basket not to work ? What contributions you have installed? Can you send me your "product_info.php" file? About admin settings - this mod doesn't have it. But SE friendly URLs must be OFF. Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 Is this contribution very much different than the "SEF Urls" feature that is built into Os Commece (but still in development). Is this an improvement, does it fix some of the key problems with the other version? SEFLT is absolutely different from internal osc SEF URLs feauture. Dunno about fixing key problems because i don't know key problems :) Can you tell me about? Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicproshop Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 I don't personally know about an problems but I have heard that it has some definite glitches (that may or maynot be the case). Search engine friendly urls is one of the most important featurs in an ecommerce site, becasuse without traffic you can not sell. You can have the best looking site in the world but not have anyone to show it to if you don't get indexed in the search engines. Unfortuately I am not a programmer and have very little knowledge when it comes to PHP and other languages. Thank you, i think this contribution shows great promise. Keep up the great work. As soon as I start on my Os Commerce site I will play around with this contrib (I am just doing some research right now). Thanks again, Take care Quote Arizona Patent Services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medisave Posted July 12, 2003 Share Posted July 12, 2003 Found the mod I made which may have caused the problem http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,952 ......A version of my product listing in colums mod, that changes the buy now buttons from links to a form action. To complement my SID killer Cheers, Graham. Quote Graham Wright ________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 12, 2003 Author Share Posted July 12, 2003 I tested SEF LT 0.6.0 with MS 2 release - working. Has anyone (except medisave) try this contribution? Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscon Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 So this contribution will transform link for example: http://www.mrstest.com/product_info.php?products_id=60 to: http://www.mrstest.com/product60/product_info.html I like this idea though I have a quick question; what will happen to all the links I already have on some search engines that point to the first link "....product_id=60" with those link still work after we install this contribution? Thanks, Joseph Quote #Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscon Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Seems like it works :D Joseph Quote #Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 13, 2003 Author Share Posted July 13, 2003 So this contribution will transform link for example:http://www.mrstest.com/product_info.php?products_id=60 to: http://www.mrstest.com/product60/product_info.html I like this idea though I have a quick question; what will happen to all the links I already have on some search engines that point to the first link "....product_id=60" with those link still work after we install this contribution? Thanks, Joseph Old links will be working as usual. Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicproshop Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I tested SEF LT 0.6.0 with MS 2 release - working. Has anyone (except medisave) try this contribution? That is great that this works with MS2. I will be installing this contribution shortly. I can't wait to see how my rankings will improve. Thank you so much Silencer, this is a much need contribution. Quote Arizona Patent Services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscon Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Serj, what is in .htaccess file. Your contribution didn't have one enclosed. Joseph Quote #Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted July 13, 2003 Author Share Posted July 13, 2003 Joseph, i send you mail about this. All files on place, possible problem in your unpacker. Quote There is always more than one way to do it. And always Keep It Simple, Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscon Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Apology about it. I just realized what had happened. You named the file "like it should be" beginning a dot "." and when I unpack it in Linux it automatically went into hiding. Thanks, Joseph :wink: Quote #Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscon Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Serj, everything works like a charm :D on new osc2.2ms2, thank you. Now tell us your secret what contribution did you use to get rid of those ugly session ID, sid. Joseph Quote #Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solardirect Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Serj, Ok, I have installed it on a fesh install. I am pretty sure the snapshot was from 05/18/03 (possibly from one dated 02/17/03). Only the home page works, all links error 404: Object not found. I have this installed in ...osc.solardirect.com/html directory. Of course I have apache pointing to this directory as home. I host my own sites, but have never dealt with .htaccess files before. What exactly do you mean to allow mod_rewrite directives? I have done a chmod ugo+rwx to this file -rwxrwxrwx, but no change. I just spent the weekend coding and got my url's working pretty good on another test site, but this would obviously make life much easier. Any suggestions? site with SEF mod: http://osc.solardirect.com test site with code from allproducts discussion plus my own mods: http://test.solardirect.com Check out my allprod and allcat pages - links in the Cat Box. Most url's working with names. Kirk Quote Boom... Big butta boom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodger Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Man this stuff is hard. I appreciate all the work that you have done here. Let me explain what I have done, and then maybe we can see how if, at all, it can be applied to your solution. I tried to get this to work and had some significant problems getting it to work, all related to the rewrite rules. I am sorry they were so complicated I could not understand them at all. This is what I did. I use the "all products" module, which creates one large list of all products for search engines to play with. Well it uses its own form of SEF urls, but from what I have been seeing they were not correct, and maybe yours were not correct either. I also don't have my catalog at the top level of my site, I have it as /oscommerce/catalog, because I have other aspects of my site then just selling my wares. Anyway I could not make heads nor tails of the Rewrite rules, they as the mod_rewrite author says are just like SendMail rules, and therefore are written in gibberish. BTW, I am an expert at regular expressions and it hurt my brain!! Again I am only concerned with my allprods.php file generating urls that can be searched since it will place all of my products on it so it can further index them. So I modified the code in allprods.php to write out the urls as follows: XXX/oscommerce/catalog/product_info/products_id/38 This needs to be equivalent to XXX/oscommerce/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=38 Notice that I forcibly dropped the .php; in my reading the .php is a no-no, and some including google may ignore that url since it is illegal. Now again I could not make heads nor tails of the rewrite rules in .htaccess and that would not work for me. So here is my replacement for the rewrite rules. RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /oscommerce/catalog RewriteRule ^product_info/products_id/([0-9]+)$ product_info.php/products_id=$1 Here I specifically rewrite product_info/products_id/38 to product_info.php?products_id=38 RewriteBase compensates for my positioning my catalog where I put it. I do have the complicated part ([0-9+)$ that is much less complicated then what was before. This works great for my specific purposes: Here are my sources of information: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/485 http://www.devarticles.com/art/1/506 I am sure we can formalize this if this if it is of interest to you all. Sincerly Julian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syscon Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 Did you add this code to your .htaccess file in root_directory: -------------- DirectoryIndex default.php Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/(.*)$ $2?language=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} RewriteRule ^product([0-9]+_?[0-9]*)(/?.*)$ $2?products_id=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} RewriteRule ^category([0-9]+_?[0-9]{0,4})/(.*)$ $2?cPath=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} RewriteRule ^(.*).html(.*)$ $1.php?%{QUERY_STRING} ---------------- By default the file htaccess file has a leading dot "." so when you extract it it goes into hiding. Just click on view - show hidden files. Joseph Quote #Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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