Friendly URLs .htaccess rules

Howdy,

Looking at this post http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... ess#p35253 the owner has it working for products, however all I get is:

http://www.url.com/category/subcategory?product_id=91

Instead of the likes of:
http://www.laptopbatterybuy.com/hp-comp ... 00-battery

Can someone point me in the right direction to get friendly URL's working for products?

Note: I am using 1.3.2 and my current .htaccess rules are:
Kind regards,

Matt

It was like that when I found it, honest!

Just some suggestions:

1. Make sure you rename the file to .htaccess, not .htaccess.txt
2. Make sure other, basic htaccess rules work and that your server has this enabled. It's not on by default, but should be if you are in a shared environment If a basic rule works, then you can progress to more advanced rules
3. Make sure you've restarted the apache server if you've made changes to it. Though the .htaccess should not require a reboot - but enabling it will.

Wish I could help more.

Do you have your store in a subdirectory?

For example:

http://www.yourdomain.com/store

if you do, you have to make sure that you update the .htaccess file with the right directory (see what I have marked in RED below)

---.htaccess file start ----

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /store
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

# Added for non www queries
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/store/$1 [R=301,L]
---.htaccess file ends ----

of course I would assumed that you have already renamed ".htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" and also set the options correctly in your store setup to use friend seo links.

For what it's worth, on my FreeBSD machine, to get SEO url's working I also needed to amend the httpd.conf with the line:

AllowOverride FileInfo

in the opencart <Directory> section.

Amnon

Ah I realised this ages ago, products and categories need the SEO name filling out in them

Matt

It was like that when I found it, honest!

it is impossible to implement SEO urls only through .htaccess
it should be inside the engine

@adelaida:

It actually IS possible...as I just did with my OC shop. Here's my htaccess content:
Hope this helps others!

Chris

hubba wrote:---.htaccess file start ----

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /store
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

# Added for non www queries
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/store/$1 [R=301,L]
---.htaccess file ends ----

of course I would assumed that you have already renamed ".htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" and also set the options correctly in your store setup to use friend seo links.

I updated my .htaccess file to look like as you mentioned above because I wanted to direct non www queries to www.

I have a question though. When I am in my website and I click on a product, or when I search using the www prefix, the friendly URLs look good (ex: http://www.mydomain.com/subfolder/friendly-url

But, if I search for http://mydomain.com/subfolder/friendly-url from the search bar, then it redirects me to http: //www.mydomain.com/subfolder/index.php?_r ... ienldy-url

How should I rewrite the .htaccess file so that when making a non www query for a specific product, it will redirect the person to the SEO friendly url (without the "index.php?_route_=" part).

Thanks

Grissom wrote:@adelaida:

It actually IS possible...as I just did with my OC shop. Here's my htaccess content:

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# 1.To use URL Alias you need to be running apache with mod_rewrite enabled. 

# 2. In your opencart directory rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess.

# For any support issues please visit: http://www.opencart.com

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

# Prevent Directoy listing 
Options -Indexes

# Prevent Direct Access to files
<FilesMatch "\.tpl">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

# SEO URL Settings
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /shop
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

# Added for non www queries
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/shop/$1 [R=301,L]

Hope this helps others!

Chris

Thank You very much!! That Works perfect for me!!

How would I write the below code if my store was not in a subfolder? My store is just on my root domain.

HTMLCSSNoob wrote:

hubba wrote:---.htaccess file start ----

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /store
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

# Added for non www queries
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/store/$1 [R=301,L]
---.htaccess file ends ----

of course I would assumed that you have already renamed ".htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" and also set the options correctly in your store setup to use friend seo links.

I updated my .htaccess file to look like as you mentioned above because I wanted to direct non www queries to www.

I have a question though. When I am in my website and I click on a product, or when I search using the www prefix, the friendly URLs look good (ex: http://www.mydomain.com/subfolder/friendly-url

But, if I search for http://mydomain.com/subfolder/friendly-url from the search bar, then it redirects me to http: //www.mydomain.com/subfolder/index.php?_r ... ienldy-url

How should I rewrite the .htaccess file so that when making a non www query for a specific product, it will redirect the person to the SEO friendly url (without the "index.php?_route_=" part).

Thanks

Just wondering if there is an answer to this? I seem to be having the same issue.

Just in case anyone has the same issue (when clicking on a link that should have a seo was showing up as http://www.mydomain.com/subfolder/index ... ienldy-url instead of mydomain.com/subfolder/friendly-url_mydomain.com/subfolder/friendly-url) . I ended up disabling
# Added for non www queries
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/store/$1 [R=301,L]

And it all works perfectly (as I was also having issues trying to login to the admin side).

Hi. This is that i made by reading this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7578 ... n-opencart
After that everything work 100%.
I made only one step of this:
After that - 100% congrats.

inspirio wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:15 pm

Hi. This is that i made by reading this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7578 ... n-opencart
After that everything work 100%.
I made only one step of this:

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INSERT INTO `url_alias` (`url_alias_id`, `query`, `keyword`) VALUES
(NULL, 'checkout/cart', 'cart');

After that - 100% congrats.

is that supported with opencart Version 3.0.3.3

moggiex wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:59 pm

Note: I am using 1.3.2 and my current .htaccess rules are:

Are there still 1.3.2 powered sites out there? Does it run ok?