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I take it this will be in the forthcoming update?

I've been hesitant to post anything here but I've completed an extension to CCP that includes a site map that may be included as a link on your site, either in the Store Menu or as a link anyplace you'd like.  The extension also builds and writes a XML site map that is built specifically to the Google site map specifications and will validate with Google.  I have a note in to Nick to see if he will give it his stamp of approval and include it in the distribution since it has all of the necessary XML installation files and doesn't interfere with any of the basic KHXC or CCP functions.

Here are some screen shots showing what it will produce and how it can fit into a site.  All of the samples were created using the default sample store that comes with CCP.

shows the site map link in both the menu on the left under Online Store Menu and as a link in the text (it's right below the feedback link).

shows the site map with all of its options enabled.  The title at the top may say anything desired and whether or not to include the category descriptions, products and product descriptions are options also.

shows a portion of the XML site map file which meets the Google specs for a site map.  The XML file validates with Google so I'm confident it will be happy with it   I have not included the optional priority element as there is not, currently, any way to associate a priority with individual categories or products in CCP.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Good job Dave

Interesting site but I didn't see any JS on it.  They have a Java applet that you have to run manually though.

I'm sure tools like that will work quite well for crawling CCP sites but think it is better to have maps built from the actual data in the database.  Not only is it a lot faster but you know for a fact that everything is being included.

Silk wrote:

What’s the best way to link the site to the index page? I’m using a meta refresh at the moment but obviously it’s not a good method especially when it comes to search engines ranking and crawling the site.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking Steve.  Your index page should be the "splash" page of CCP in a "normal" installation.  Index.php should be used when hitting your domain name with no file specified.

If you are saying that your site is going to index.html or index.htm you should simply be able to remove that index file and index.php should be used instead.  A good number of providers have the web server configured to serve index.html, index.htm or index.php and the first one found is the one that will be returned.  Removing index.html and index.htm should result in index.php being used which is probably what you want/need.

Silk wrote:

Is there a proceedure to moving the index.php page out to the root of the site?

Use the first method in  entry as well as  for another alternative (though the first method in both entries is your best choice IMO.

Probably won't take you 15 minutes total.

Last edited by djm0219 (03-26-2007 05:39:31)

Do you have SEO enabled and, if you do, did you also update your .htaccess file?

Based on the error I'm seeing it's probably .htaccess that's the problem.

Last edited by djm0219 (03-26-2007 06:37:16)

Based on your earlier post you said you had things installed in the khxc directory which meant your rewrite rules probably looked like this (if you're  using 1and1):

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^khxc/(.*)-(.*)/(.*)\.html khxc/index.php?app=$1&ns=$2&ref=$3 [L,PT]

After you move things to the root you only need to remove the 2 references to khxc in the rules for everything to work.  Here's what .htaccess needs to look like after the change:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)-(.*)/(.*)\.html index.php?app=$1&ns=$2&ref=$3 [L,PT]

I've updated all of the Wiki entries related to move things to the root to include a link to the SEO section and added an example to the SEO section that shows how the rules need to be for running things in the root web directory.  For some reason that important bit of information wasn't there

I see that you've gotten things back to normal in /khxc Steve but do give it another go and avoid the redirect if you can.

Last edited by djm0219 (03-26-2007 07:06:20)

"I see that you've gotten things back to normal in /khxc Steve but do give it another go and avoid the redirect if you can."

I will, I know how much a re-direct hurts regarding search engine traffic. Thanks for all your help Dave, very much appreicated.

That's great.  Thanks for letting us know.

The marketing additions Nick said will be an additional cost item.  It has not been released yet.  Nick has my site map function in his hands and told me he hopes to look at it before this week is out.