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I have an opencart store which has a blogging module that is no longer going to be supported. I was told by the developer to look for something new, which I did. My blog already had url friendly seo. So Installed the new blog copied the content exactly, and then thought I could uninstall the old blog, enable the new posts and categories from the new one with no hiccups, keeping the same url's from the old blog posts.

The new developer assured me this would work, but for a month now, I've been stuck in a he said she said, between the old and new developers.

The old developer had changed Opencart's catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php.

Both developers agreed that I needed to overwrite it with a fresh copy of seo_url.php from opencart 1.5.5.1 which I did. I unistalled the modules of the old blog also. So the old blog was gone....and the new developer would hopefully guide me (or fix for me) all the index.php? urls from the blog that he assured me would be url friendly...even on the open cart extension comments page.

Then, the new developer (which had a communication barrier already) would only answer emails a couple days later and then with really cryptic answers...Not over my head answers but things like "set your blog" which wouldn't be any direct answer to my question.

Anyway, I did a backup restore and now have the old blog working again and the new one still with index.php? urls.

I really like the new blog as opposed to the old one. Is there any way that I can manually fix the new blog so that I get seo friendly urls? These pages (old blog posts) have been indexed by google, so I really want to clean this up and keep my urls the same as they've been, but use the new blog extension.

Thanks
-Scott

there wasn't any need to change the blogging module unless you needed some new features. Now that you have switched over, you can either

1. offer the new developer some extra cash to fix things up
2. get an external developer to fix things up
3. fix it yourself.

To attempt to fix things, you will have to first check to ensure that the seo_url.php file is correct. Next, ensure that the htaccess is set up correctly, and your SEO URL function is turned on (I assume they are).

If the new module is using vqmod, ensure that your vqmod is working, ensure that vqcache is generated for seo_url.php

Ok, thanks for the reply. Paying someone to do is definitely on the table. I would love to fix it myself only because I'm painfully aware that coding is something that I need for the future.

Having said that, If I need /index.php?route=blog/home to simply be /blog, do I put that code in the seo_url.php ? If so, any pointers?

if your blog module uses vqmod, it should be done by the vqmod script. So ensure you have installed vqmod, and if it still isn't working, check your vqmod logs to see what you've got there.