stupid question but...
what is it? can you give me an example of what it makes different if i use it?
have things running fairly smooth and dont want to mess it up if it won't be helpful.
thanks for your time.
Hello,
URL Aliases are shortcuts for your website, if you notice when viewing a product or something similar you have a huge URL in the address bar, http://domain.tld/index.php?controller= ... oduct_id=1. Search engines do not generally like this. When you enable URL Alias your URL's will look like so http://domain.tld/Product-1/ this is not only easy to copy and paste for reference, but search engines prefer this method.
As far as I know, this is currently broken in 0.7.6.1, if you want to get more information, key in "Search Engine Friendly URL" in your search engine.
If you want to see this working live look at http://demo.opencart.com/
URL Aliases are shortcuts for your website, if you notice when viewing a product or something similar you have a huge URL in the address bar, http://domain.tld/index.php?controller= ... oduct_id=1. Search engines do not generally like this. When you enable URL Alias your URL's will look like so http://domain.tld/Product-1/ this is not only easy to copy and paste for reference, but search engines prefer this method.
As far as I know, this is currently broken in 0.7.6.1, if you want to get more information, key in "Search Engine Friendly URL" in your search engine.
If you want to see this working live look at http://demo.opencart.com/
Last edited by tchemis on Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:04 am, edited 1 time in total.
tchemis,
thanks for the explanation.
what is wrong if i turn it on and it uses the new url but i get a 404 error? did i miss a step somewhere?
thanks for the explanation.
what is wrong if i turn it on and it uses the new url but i get a 404 error? did i miss a step somewhere?
i did rename the file. it may have something to do with the mod_rewrite thing that's needed. not sure how/where to discover if it's there or not.
thanks man.
thanks man.
Go to Admin > Configuration > Server Info in your store admin section and look for mod_rewriteOneBadFlower wrote: i did rename the file. it may have something to do with the mod_rewrite thing that's needed. not sure how/where to discover if it's there or not.
thanks man.
i'm running 7.3.1 and when i look at server info there is no "mod_rewrite".
here's what my .htaccess file looks like. anyone see a mistake? it's in the top level directory of the cart.
# converts from php4 to php5 for directory
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
# 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
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
here's what my .htaccess file looks like. anyone see a mistake? it's in the top level directory of the cart.
# converts from php4 to php5 for directory
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
# 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
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
Last edited by OneBadFlower on Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
Any idea on when a fix for this might be available?d77 wrote: , but as mentioned, the url alias feature is broken in 0.7.6.1. daniel is aware of this issue but not sure when the fix will be released.
I would say maybe 2 weeks.BFTUK wrote: Thanks for the update Daniel.
Any idea of a timescale for this? Looks like i'll have to release with what i've got and then sort out 301 redirects for the relevant URLS.
There are a few extra features I'm adding into the next release.
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HI,
Congrats on opencart!
I see that in the demo, url aliases are working.
Are there any code changes from the "vanilla" 0.7.6.1?
Or just a different .htaccess?
Congrats on opencart!
I see that in the demo, url aliases are working.
Are there any code changes from the "vanilla" 0.7.6.1?
Or just a different .htaccess?
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