Dear friends!
We would like to announce our new CS-Cart add-on - “Redirect to Sitemap” add-on. It redirects shoppers to a Sitemap automatically instead of showing 404 error.
Sometimes shoppers enter urls of deleted product pages or click on a disabled link and see 404 error (page not found). After the addon installation, shoppers will see a Sitemap instead of the error page. It can help to navigate the site.
If you want to get more information please Contact us.
Best regards,
Alt-team
Isn't this already possible with the standard block manager from cscart 3.0.3? Because you can edit the 404 page block?
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[font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]So does it do more than the standard entries placed in the .htaccess file in [/font][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]store [/font][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif]root:[/font]
[quote][font=courier new,courier,monospace]# Add SEO (mod_rewrite) 'Site Map' Entry:[/font]
[font=courier new,courier,monospace]RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ ./index.php?dispatch=xmlsitemap.view [L][/font]
[font=courier new,courier,monospace]# Add 404 redirect - resource not found:[/font]
[font=courier new,courier,monospace]ErrorDocument 404 /sitemap.xml[/font][/quote]
Obviously the xml could be replaced with a PHP file etc…
Thanks
Hello everyone!
Dear telefoongarage, it is not possible to make a redirect to Sitemap using a standard block manager in 3.0.Ñ…. But UniDevelopers is right, it is possible to make redirect adding some code[color=#282828][font=verdana, geneva, sans-serif] in the .htaccess file. [/font][/color]
We created this as an add-on because several users asked us about it. Moreover we are planning to extend this add-on by adding redirects to pages that a semantically similar to a not found page.
Best regards, Alt-team
[quote][color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif] to extend this add-on by adding redirects to pages that a semantically similar to a not found page.[/font][/color][/quote]
Sounds very interesting!
My post above was not intended to spoil nor hinder any of your potential sales. (Sorry!) It was simply sharing how I had implemented the same end result for our clientele…
Having this as an add-on where the user can access a page to modify the redirects, using a drop-down to select relevant “dispatch=” sections would make the add-on quite valuable and very user-friendly. 
I think this add-on really comes into its element when used in parallel with the Ultimate (Multi-Shop-Front) and Multi-Vendor (Multi-Vendor-Portal) editions (as Professional is EOL).
Therefore, If I visit [color=#0000ff]sub.shop.com/product1234[/color] it would then redirect me to www.main-shop.com/sitemap (the ‘head’ store), but what this add-on could/should do, is redirect to[color=#0000ff] sub.shop.com/sitemap[/color], keeping visitors on the store they are visiting, rather than redirecting them to the Ultimate’s default ‘head’ store (capable of handling and managing redirects for each /sub-shop/ configured).
This add-on now becomes quite valuable! 
Am I making sense? Does the add-on currenlty manage this ‘flow’ already?
Hello friends!
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I think this add-on really comes into its element when used in parallel with the Ultimate (Multi-Shop-Front) and Multi-Vendor (Multi-Vendor-Portal) editions (as Professional is EOL).
Therefore, If I visit [color=#0000ff]sub.shop.com/product1234[/color] it would then redirect me to www.main-shop.com/sitemap (the 'head' store), but what this add-on could/should do, is redirect to[color=#0000ff] sub.shop.com/sitemap[/color], keeping visitors on the store they are visiting, rather than redirecting them to the Ultimate's default 'head' store (capable of handling and managing redirects for each /sub-shop/ configured).
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UniDevelopers, your point is absolutely correct. [color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]If you visit a disabled page of a a sub shop (within one Ultimate edition), you will be redirected to a sub shop Sitemap[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif], keeping visito[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]rs on the sto[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]re they are visiting. [/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]Best regards, Alt-team[/font][/color]
No worries! 
I’ll send you an invoice for my time!