[Solved!] Making proper external URL link for a product (OC 3.0.3.6)

JNeuhoff wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:10 pm

It needs to be like this: https://flippers.com/catalog_oc/index.p ... &search=k7

nonnedelectari wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:21 pm

JNeuhoff wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:10 pm

It needs to be like this: https://flippers.com/catalog_oc/index.p ... &search=k7

No, these are seo url product pages which come from the search results page, not the search page itself, the ?search=k part is then attached to that product url
https://flippers.com/catalog_oc/actuato ... ?search=k7
and that works fine, just not with the .html attached to the seo keyword.

so don't attach ".html" to your seo urls and it is fine.

JNeuhoff wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:10 pm

It needs to be like this: https://flippers.com/catalog_oc/index.p ... &search=k7

ADD Creative wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:02 pm

Looks like a problem with a redirect on your site. What rewrite and redirect rules do you have in your htaccess? Do you have any extensions that add redirects?

# Several pages in max are vulnerable to cross site scripting exploits.
# by adding a small rewrite to the .htaccess file these can be eliminated.
# per //bugtrack.oscmax.com/view.php?id=1042

### (2024 - the next group can probably be removed for Opencart) ###

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*iframe.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index_error.php [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]

# secure htaccess file
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>


## Custom headers
# ERROR PAGE (from http://wiki.e107.org/index.php?title=Htaccessexample)
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
ErrorDocument 403 /403.html

# Turn rewrite engine on and set base
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# 2. Redirect all access to the following user agents and files
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/4\.76\ \[ru\]\ \(X11;\ U;\ SunOS\ 5\.7\ sun4u\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla/5.0$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Bot\ Search|kangen|CaSpEr|MaMa|crew|plaNETWORK|dex|perl\ post$) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (contact\.php|help_us\.php|forum_index\.php|crossdomain\.xml|\.htaccess)
RewriteRule .* http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/ [R,L]

# 3. Deny access to requests with contact.php request.php or help_us.php in the query
# string, UNLESS those are referred from our own site (e.g. search)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (contact\.php|request\.php|help_us\.php|casper)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*\.)?your_site\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Options -Indexes

# pair Networks: Replaced 'IndexIgnore *' with 'Options -Indexes' on 09/12/2017
Options -Indexes

# Enable SSI site wide with any extension...per Pair.com SSI documentation.
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .htm

# (66.39.45.150 is flippers)

# added to htaccess from https://masror.com/htaccess-rules-to-he ... njections/
# modified with tips from https://www.supertechcrew.com/htaccess- ... -redirect/
# April 20 & 22, 2021

# No web server version and indexes
ServerSignature Off
IndexIgnore *
Options -Indexes -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Enable rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# Block suspicious request methods
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(HEAD|TRACE|DELETE|TRACK|DEBUG) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]

# Block suspicious user agents and requests
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|curl|scan|java|winhttp|clshttp|loader) [NC,OR] # (these can break crontab jobs - curl was one in particular)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|scan|java|winhttp|clshttp|loader) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (<|>|'|%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (;|<|>|'|"|\)|\(|%0A|%0D|%22|%27|%28|%3C|%3E|%00).*(libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|curl|scan|java|winhttp|HTTrack|clshttp|archiver|loader|email|harvest|extract|grab|miner) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?\ HTTP/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/\*\ HTTP/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} etc/passwd [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} cgi-bin [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (%0A|%0D) [NC,OR]

# Block MySQL injections, RFI, base64, etc.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=http:// [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=http%3A%2F%2F [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=(\.\.//?)+ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=/([a-z0-9_.]//?)+ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \=PHP[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12} [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\.\./|\.\.) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp\: [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http\: [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} https\: [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \=\|w\| [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)/self/(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)cPath=http://(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*iframe.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^i]*i)+frame.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_(en|de)code[^(]*\([^)]*\) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\[|\]|\(|\)|<|>).* [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (NULL|OUTFILE|LOAD_FILE) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\./|\../|\.../)+(motd|etc|bin) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (localhost|loopback|127\.0\.0\.1) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|>|'|%0A|%0D|%27|%3C|%3E|%00) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} concat[^\(]*\( [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^s]*s)+elect [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} union([^a]*a)+ll([^s]*s)+elect [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (;|<|>|'|"|\)|%0A|%0D|%22|%27|%3C|%3E|%00).*(/\*|union|select|insert|drop|delete|update|cast|create|char|convert|alter|declare|order|script|set|md5|benchmark|encode) [NC,OR]

# PHP-CGI Vulnerability
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(%2d|\-)[^=]+$ [NC,OR]

#proc/self/environ? no way!
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} proc\/self\/environ [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (sp_executesql) [NC]

# had to comment out next line as it suppresses error displaying...
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]

</IfModule>

#end of added code April 20 2021


# 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

# Prevent Direct Access to files
<FilesMatch "(?i)((\.tpl|.twig|\.ini|\.log|(?<!robots)\.txt))">
Require all denied
## For apache 2.2 and older, replace "Require all denied" with these two lines :
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

# SEO URL Settings
RewriteEngine On
# If your opencart installation does not run on the main web folder make sure you folder it does run in ie. / becomes /shop/

RewriteBase /catalog_oc/
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/google_base [L]
RewriteRule ^system/storage/(.*) index.php?route=error/not_found [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} neethome\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

### Additional Settings that may need to be enabled for some servers
### Uncomment the commands by removing the # sign in front of it.
### If you get an "Internal Server Error 500" after enabling any of the following settings, restore the # as this means your host doesn't allow that.

# 1. If your cart only allows you to add one item at a time, it is possible register_globals is on. This may work to disable it:
# php_flag register_globals off

# 2. If your cart has magic quotes enabled, This may work to disable it:
# php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off

# 3. Set max upload file size. Most hosts will limit this and not allow it to be overridden but you can try
# php_value upload_max_filesize 999M

# 4. set max post size. uncomment this line if you have a lot of product options or are getting errors where forms are not saving all fields
# php_value post_max_size 999M

# 5. set max time script can take. uncomment this line if you have a lot of product options or are getting errors where forms are not saving all fields
# php_value max_execution_time 200

# 6. set max time for input to be recieved. Uncomment this line if you have a lot of product options or are getting errors where forms are not saving all fields
# php_value max_input_time 200

# 7. disable open_basedir limitations
# php_admin_value open_basedir none

# # Added to default htaccess file Oct 28, 2020 by JR # #
# Emergency Fix - Fri May 4 15:15:05 2012
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^[^=]*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} %2d|- [NC]
RewriteRule .? - [F,L]

# Block access to .htaccess for Apache 2.4.x
<Files ".ht*">
Require all denied
</Files>


# # # Protect cache and other files from remote viewing

# <FilesMatch "\.(ser|php|cache|htaccess)$">
# Order Allow,Deny
# Deny from all
# </FilesMatch>

# Protect configure.php (from http://zemalf.com/1076/blog-htaccess-rules/)
<Files config.php>
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# Disable directory browsing (from http://zemalf.com/1076/blog-htaccess-rules/)
# Options All -Indexes

# suppress php errors
php_flag display_startup_errors off
php_flag display_errors off
php_flag html_errors off

# enable PHP error logging
php_flag log_errors on
php_value error_log /usr/home/flip/log/PHP_errors.log

# allow_url_fopen on (added for Can post access)
php_flag allow_url_fopen on

# php_value register_long_arrays On
php_flag register_globals off

# prevent access to PHP error log
<Files PHP_errors.log>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All

</Files>

#limit access to checkout_process.php to only authorized referring domains
#<Files checkout_process.php>
#SetEnvIf Referer "^http://local\.flippers\.com" local_referral
#SetEnvIf Referer "^https://local\.flippers\.com" local_referral
#SetEnvIf Referer "^http://www\.paypal\.com" auth_referral
#SetEnvIf Referer "^https://www\.paypal\.com" auth_referral
#SetEnvIf Referer "^http://www\.canadapost\.ca" auth_referral
#Order Deny,Allow
#Deny from all
#Allow from env=local_referral
#Allow from env=auth_referral
#</Files>

# BOF: MOD - Ultimate SEO URLs
## SEO Url's .htaccess file
## If you want to use the Apache Mod-Rewrite method for SEO URL's
## NOTE: This requires that you are on an apache web server with mod_rewrite enabled.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

# Change "catalog" to your catalog directory name:
# RewriteBase /catalog_oc/
## If installed to the base home/root directory, uncomment the below code only:
#RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ popup_image.php?pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t-([0-9]+).html$ articles.php?tPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ article_info.php?articles_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ product_reviews.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ product_reviews_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ information.php?info_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
</ifModule>
# EOF: MOD - Ultimate SEO URLs

# Prevent annoying data miners, site suckers...see email Pair/jr Dec 1, 2019

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} Kate_Storm/posts/709

Order Deny,Allow

#Telus - shop
Allow from (shop IP address)

#Pair server - flippers
Allow from (my home IP address)

Deny from (a bunch of IP addresses)

nonnedelectari wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:50 am

On second thought, seems that whenever your seo url does not exist, the loop begins.
use any non-existing seo url and it goes.
Did you run a mod on the seo logic?

and get rid of this part (why is that there)?

Code: Select all

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
...
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ information.php?info_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

ADD Creative wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:06 pm

Doesn't look like anything that would cause the redirect. Look at the response header the cookies look to be set. This would suggest the redirect is being done in OpenCart and not htaccess. You could disable your extensions/modifications one by one.

RewriteBase /catalog_oc/
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/google_base [L]
RewriteRule ^system/storage/(.*) index.php?route=error/not_found [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

jrr wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:48 pm

My question is: Is there a secret to creating proper product links to insert elsewhere online?

paulfeakins wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:00 am

jrr wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:48 pm

My question is: Is there a secret to creating proper product links to insert elsewhere online?

No secret - OpenCart does this by default unless something has broken your site.

nonnedelectari wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:36 am

Furthermore, if you want to copy and paste urls then why keep the "?search=k7" part if you are not using it (for text highlight for instance).