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[ant99]

We recently upgraded from XC4 to XC5 and have imported only our products. When we upgraded, the clean urls were not transferred over. Is there an "auto-generate clean URLs" feature in X-cart 5 that will generate all of the clean URLs if they have not been defined (for categories & products)?

Also, since we ran the most recent upgrade to 5.2.3 our store has broken links for the categories that do not already have a clean URL defined. Previous to the upgrade, if the clean URL was not defined the category would be linked to a page with URL parameters, (i.e. - /category.php?id=25). Now it links to the parent category instead. It seems broken. Should I open a support ticket?

Thanks!

[ant99]

Also, is there a way to import the clean URLs and clean URL history from XC4 to XC5? That would save a lot of time.

[tony_sologubov]

Hello @ant99,

1) Here is an external script that can generate SEO-friendly urls for your products and categories:

PHP Code:

<?php

include_once('top.inc.php');

foreach(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Category')->findAll() as $category) {
    $category->setCleanURL(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Category')->generateCleanURL());
    \XLite\Core\Database::getEM()->flush();
}

foreach(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Product')->findAll() as $product) {
    $product->setCleanURL(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Product')
 ->generateCleanURL());
    \XLite\Core\Database::getEM()->flush();
}

Of course, make a backup of your DB before running it.

2) There is no way of importing SEO-friendly urls, but you can put the history of them directly to the xc_clean_urls table. The value with highest ID is used as actual SEO-friendly url. The record with the same product_id, but lesser ID will be assumed as a history url.

Hopefully, it will help.

Tony

[omargerardo1]

Originally Posted by tony_sologubov

Hello @ant99,

1) Here is an external script that can generate SEO-friendly urls for your products and categories:

PHP Code:

<?php

include_once('top.inc.php');

foreach(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Category')->findAll() as $category) {
    $category->setCleanURL(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Category')->generateCleanURL());
    \XLite\Core\Database::getEM()->flush();
}

foreach(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Product')->findAll() as $product) {
    $product->setCleanURL(\XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Product')
 ->generateCleanURL());
    \XLite\Core\Database::getEM()->flush();
}

Of course, make a backup of your DB before running it.

2) There is no way of importing SEO-friendly urls, but you can put the history of them directly to the xc_clean_urls table. The value with highest ID is used as actual SEO-friendly url. The record with the same product_id, but lesser ID will be assumed as a history url.

Hopefully, it will help.

Tony

Hi tony, the support xcart migrated my store to xcart hosting server
and upgrade from 5.1.11 to 5.2.3 versiСn
after the update the clean urls doesnt Works properly the xcart support help me to solve this but not all the categories and products Works fine, so my programmer updated the products in the database again like he did in the 5.1.11 versiСn
but the clean url doesn╢t Works

If I go to the admin store I can see the clean url, but don╢t works
so, I changed manualy this clean url and then Works fine, then I export the products to see the difference and I notice in the export file

the product that i modified has .html at the end of the clean urlt
the others not, what do you think could be the problem ? and how can I solve this

every time the programmer update the products the clean url is changed and not Works, is the same url just without .HTML at the end

[omargerardo1]

I tried to run the scrip and got

ERROR: "0" (code N/A)

Undefined method 'generateCleanURL'. The method name must start with either findBy or findOneBy!

[omargerardo1]

Hi Tony, the support xcart migrated my store to xcart hosting server
and upgrade from 5.1.11 to 5.2.3 versiСn
after the update the clean urls doesnt Works properly, my programmer insert the products in the database again like do in the 5.1.11 versiСn
but the clean url doesn╢t Works

If I go to the admin store I can see the clean url, but don╢t works
so, I changed manualy this clean url and works fine, then I export the products for to see the difference and I notice that in the export file
the product that I modified has .html at the end of the clean url
the others not, what do you think could be the problem ? and how can I solve this
should I import the clean URL with .html at the end ? or is config problem ?

[tony_sologubov]

Hello @omargerardo1,

As I see, you are in active communication with members our team and they are settling problems with your store for you. Please submit all requests to them and we will help you with any problem.

Tony

[ou812]

since upgrading, non of my clean urls work, i enabled them, tried to manually config nothing works... always page not found

please help!

[christiemerrill]

I am having the same issue; just updated and now no clean urls work.

[ant99]

Hi Tony, thanks for the help.

1.) The script for the clean urls didn't seem to work. It didn't report a specific error, but I didn't spend much time debugging. Would still like a feature to "Auto-generate clean URLs for all content"

2.) For the clean URL history it seems like that is not going to work out either. When we export from XC4 then import to XC5, the entire category tree is recreated from scratch. Also, it looks like the product IDs are not matching from XC4 to XC5. Since none of the IDs match, the URLs will be off. Correct? For now, it looks like we're going to be matching 301 redirects manually.