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[Acquamarina]

Jon is back! He installed my upgrade and is now catching up so it should not be long. He probably has a ton of catching up to do. I was glad to get a response, I was worried about him. That delay was unusual, they are always very good with support.

[Acquamarina]

I have a question on CDSEO for 4.4.4 - this is in admin only. On the admin product, category and manufacturer pages, the 4.4.4 version includes the meta information area. Is there a way to make that the CDSEO meta information instead, as it looks like the module disables the default feature? I have to make some changes and going back and forth is confusing and inefficient.

I have this modification on my 4.1.9 for the product pages and it is great. I would like to do the same for 4.4.4 and include categories and manufacturers.

Thanks in advance!

[elmirage001]

Originally Posted by Acquamarina

I have a question on CDSEO for 4.4.4 - this is in admin only. On the admin product, category and manufacturer pages, the 4.4.4 version includes the meta information area. Is there a way to make that the CDSEO meta information instead, as it looks like the module disables the default feature? I have to make some changes and going back and forth is confusing and inefficient.

I have this modification on my 4.1.9 for the product pages and it is great. I would like to do the same for 4.4.4 and include categories and manufacturers.

Thanks in advance!

This option is an optional mod you can do. Here are the instructions to add to 4.4.4 on Jon's other site.

http://www.x-cart-seo.com/cdseo-pro-for-x-cart/xcart-admin-addon.php

I've added to my 4.4.4 and it works. These instructions weren't written for 4.4.4 so you have to be careful in a few spots.

[Acquamarina]

Thanks, I'll try that.

[Jon]

Sorry for the delay guys, I hate to leave people hanging but I'm support levels are back to where they should be now. Still playing a bit of catch-up but almost there.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by exitodirect

Are there any tricks to get CDSEO to work with X-cart on a local test server?

In order to get X-cart site to function on test server, I had to set the status to '0' in the local wcm_cdseo_config table. The X-cart site then generally works fine, but all links to static pages are returning 404.

Any workarounds for the static page issue with CDSEO status off?

If not, any way to get CDSEO to play nice on the test server?

Thanks.

You should be able to install CDSEO on a local host provided it supports .htaccess and mod rewrite. If links to static pages are returning 404 it may be that they are hard-coded and trying to use the CDSEO urls even though CDSEO has been disabled. It's always best to link to the dynamic php urls and allow CDSEO to replace them.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by BBM_

Hi Jon,

I'm looking to redirect a domain name to a specific url that has been created by CDESO. Currently the redirect (via cPanel parked domains) just lands at the domain name when I would like it to go to the domainname/category.

Does this need to be written directly via the .htaccess file in order for this to work.

Thanks

CDSEO won't have any impact on the redirect.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by zebu

Hi Jon,

We have just installed CDSEO on a 4.4.4 cart still in Dev

I had an error with teh Survey section of our cart. The survey completed message doesn't pop up when a user completes the survey. The message does appear if you have the option ticked to display survey results. If you have display survey results un-ticked, we dont get the survey completed pop up.


I had a ticket logged with Xcart - who resolved.

I quote x-carts reply:
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The investigation revealed that the issue is caused by the following custom code added to <xcart_dir>/home.php script on the server:
Code: php
include $xcart_dir."/modules/cdseolinks/cdseo_redirects.php"; This custom script performs extra redirects which broke default X-Cart functionality.

In order to resolve the problem you need to contact the authors of this modification.

To workaround the issue I have commented out the custom code replacing it with this code:
Code: php
//include $xcart_dir."/modules/cdseolinks/cdseo_redirects.php";
----------------------------------------------
The CDSEO still seems to work. But what is the implication of removing this line of code?


Cheers
Zane

I've solved this for Zane but if anybody else is interested in this solution, it is as follows.

PROBLEM: X-Cart creates a session with the message and redirects it to home.php where the message is cleared. CDSEO then redirects home.php to / and the message has already been cleared and thus is not displayed.

SOLUTION:
Open modules/Survey/customer_survey.php

Find:
func_header_location('home.php');

Replace with:
func_header_location('/');

or if your site is not in root then replace with:

func_header_location($http_location);

COMMENT: Using home.php is a relic and should have stopped being used in x-cart as of 2003. Please x-cart start using index.php properly like every other piece of worthy software on the planet. There's no need for a splash page any more.

[anandat]

Hi Jon,
I have test store in directory "test" & live store in root directory. But when I visit my site www.mysite.com/test I am getting error in chrome "too many loops found" & it's not allowed me to login to "www.mysite.com/test/admin" also. I had to delete .htacsess file & disable CDSEROPRO.
Is there any change in settings require in CDSEROPRO to work correctly?
Also I want make /test directory password .htacsess protected. So now there will be 2 .htacsess files in /test directory ? or your .htacsess file needs to be edited?

[Jon]

In your root .htaccess file FIND:

#RewriteBase /xcart/

CHANGE TO:

RewriteBase /

FIND:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(payment|admin|provider|partner)/

CHANGE TO:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(test|payment|admin|provider|partner)/

In your /test/ folder you can't have two .htaccess files, just put your pass protection and cdseo code in the same file. Also find:

#RewriteBase /xcart/

CHANGE TO:

RewriteBase /test/