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Boy this is really starting to suck!

I am backing up and attempting to work out the most straightforward example presented in the manual.

In this manual example the pathing to redirect a category is as follows. My pathing is next.

http://www.mysite.com/ecom-catshow/kidbikeprts.html   (I believe this means the program was installed in the root directory.)
http://www.mysite.com/ccp7/ecom-catshow/Books.html

Here is how the rewrite rule as shown in the manual.
RewriteRule ^ecom-catshow/kidbikeprts\.html$ http://www.yourweb.com/Childrens-Bicycle-Parts [L,R=permanent]

Here is my version.
RewriteRule ^ccp7/ecom-catshow/Books\.html$ http://www.uncletim.com/ccp7/uncletims-books [L,R=permanent]

I believe there are problems with the pathing above.

Second set of rules.
Here is the manual example.
RewriteRule ^Children’s-Bicycle-Parts$ /ecom-catshow/kidbikeprts.html

Here is mine.
RewriteRule ^ccp7/uncletims-books$ /ecom-catshow/Books.html

If I understand the previous comments in this thread, the flow is as follows.

SEO_url >HDSEO_url   (first statement)
HDSEO_url >SEO_url  (second statement, there is no basic url used)


Here is what I plugged into the program.
Clone    Update    Delete    Default SEO URL      High Definition SEO URL
Clone    Update    Delete    /ecom-catshow/Books.html    /uncletims-books

Can anyone please check my exact syntax and let me know where I mis inturperted the manuals pathing instructions.

Thank you and if you cannot answer this, then just please shoot me.

Is the basic or standard SEO working?

John

Here is the .htaccess file.


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ccp7/ecom-catshow/Books\.html$ http://www.uncletim.com/ccp7/uncletims-books [L,R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^ccp7/uncletims-books$ /ecom-catshow/Books.html
RewriteRule ^ccp7/ecom-prodshow/UTBB\.html$ http://www.uncletim.com/ccp7/uncle-tims … locks.html [L,R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^uncle-tims-building-blocks.html$ /ecom-prodshow/UTBB.html
RewriteRule ^ccp7/(.*)-(.*)/(.*)\.html ccp7/index.php?app=$1&ns=$2&ref=$3 [L,PT]

All I am trying to do is get the categories working.
Once I understand what this is suppose to look like I can get the rest (usually). These two statements are where I need help I think.
RewriteRule ^ccp7/ecom-catshow/Books\.html$ http://www.uncletim.com/ccp7/uncletims-books [L,R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^ccp7/uncletims-books$ /ecom-catshow/Books.html

Nope! Thanks for trying though! The redirect is not working.

Here is the modified .htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ccp7/ecom-catshow/Books\.html$ http://www.uncletim.com/ccp7/uncletims-books [L,R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^ccp7/uncletims-books$ ecom-catshow/Books.html
RewriteRule ^ecom-prodshow/UTBB\.html$ http://uncletim.com/uncle-tims-building-blocks.html [L,R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^ccp7/ecom-prodshow/UTBB\.html$ http://www.uncletim.com/ccp7/uncle-tims … locks.html [L,R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^uncle-tims-building-blocks.html$ ecom-prodshow/UTBB.htm
RewriteRule ^ccp7/(.*)-(.*)/(.*)\.html ccp7/index.php?app=$1&ns=$2&ref=$3 [L,PT]

Here is the same old result.
http://uncletim.com/ccp7/uncletims-books

Error 404

Wrong Page!

The page you requested was not found. Please use the menus on this page to navigate to an area on this site.

You can always send us an email if you cannot find what you are looking for.

Since I do not know how this routine is suppose to work and the manual does not show what the pathing should be for this situation, I have no way of determining if I am the problem or if this routine is broke.

How is the redirect suppose to work and why is it that after trying every permutation I can think of, can't I even get one simple redirect to work.

So far I have seven days on this without any answers.

Tim G.

Thank you dh783:

That was the help I needed.

That is exactly the problem and I went back and checked the examples in the manual and THEY ARE ALL WRONG!

Anyone who uses the HDSEO manual, please realize escaping the .html must happen any time you encounter a .html.

That small oversight in the manual cost me about 25 hours of work.

Once again I call out the documentation team to do a better job!

It is one thing to provide scant information about a complicated product, it is another issue entirely to make these kinds of mistakes.

Until this is correctly, the manual gets an F for a grade.

Here is the line in the manual that is incorrect along with ALL THE EXAMPLES.

Please note that any periods (.) in the first part of the rules need to be escaped with a backslash
(\).

It turns out that any period in BOTH parts must be escaped.

Not so happy right now.

Tim G.

I am having a similar problem, getting a 404 message for the following link:

http://www.undercutter.co.uk/iphones-sale

I have ensured that both normal and HD SEO is true and have added the following htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ecom-catshow/iphones\.html$ http://www.undercutter.co.uk/iphones-sale [L,R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^iphones-sale$ /ecom-catshow/iphones.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)-(.*)/(.*)\.html /index.php?app=$1&ns=$2&ref=$3 [L,PT]


Then in the System: HDSEO URL Managerr I added the following:

Clone     Update     Delete     Default SEO URL                     High Definition SEO URL
Clone     Update     Delete     /ecom-catshow/iphones.html     /iphones-sale

The redirect seems to work but there is no page there (404 error).
Any idea?

Last edited by sdonn (08-19-2009 14:47:57)

Nope fraid that made no difference. Any other ideas?

If you haven't got it working then try it like

RewriteRule ^iphones-sale$ ecom-catshow/iphones\.html

John

thanks john, it seems to be working now!

sdonn wrote:

I have a couple of questions:

1) I have added the rewrite rules for all the categories and have noticed that all categories are working now under the new format, however I have not added them to the HD Manager list and they still work.  Why do we need to add them there also if they are working without having to add them through admin?
2) To get all my products working with the HD SEO, do I really have to add rewrite rules for the 100s of products I have? This would seem like a completely crazy way of doing this SEO and too time consuming.

Did anybody give a reply to this question??