May I ask… do you have a lot of categories/subcategories that have he same name? For example, does each brand of knife you sell have a subcategory that is ‘discontinued’? That seems to be why the long strings of numbers show up in SEO URLs.
I don’t know the long-term solution, but you could try renaming from ‘discontinued’ to ‘Discontinued (Brand)’ and see if the shorter SEO url solves the issue.
Are you creating your categories and/or products by “cloning” an already existing product? If so, are you going to the Addon tab of the category and/or product to delete the cloned text, leave it blank and then save the new category/product? This will allow the SEO name to be saved without the numbers which are put in there when you save the new item from a cloned item.
I have cloned a number of items and always delete the SEO name from each one then save. All works just fine and there are no 404 pages if you do that.
try to create a sitemap with GSiteCrawler. it only finds the normal pages like contact us, about us, discussion etc… none of the category and product pages can be found. just like google webmaster tool.
I have the same problem. Clean install of 2.0.11. When I first logged in as admin/admin and go to Addons and try to enable SEO I get an error saying mod_rewrite is not installed.
Did a uninstall/install and now it’s active. Created category and items. When we visit them in store view. It comes with page not found/error.
The .htaccess looks like:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
RewriteEngine on
Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented
I am having the same issue as onture with cs-cart 2.0.11
I am creating two ecommerce sites, both with the same hosting provider but on different accounts.
One of the installs works fine with SEO but the other does not, the only difference i can see is that one is on v 2.0.8 and the other 2.0.11 and that the latter has a fixed IP address so that I could use an SSL certificate on the domain.
[quote name=‘peteyb’]I am having the same issue as onture with cs-cart 2.0.11
I am creating two ecommerce sites, both with the same hosting provider but on different accounts.
One of the installs works fine with SEO but the other does not, the only difference i can see is that one is on v 2.0.8 and the other 2.0.11 and that the latter has a fixed IP address so that I could use an SSL certificate on the domain.[/quote]
Can you post the URL?
Did you delete the cache and is your htaccess right?
I am facing the same issue when I shifted the files from a testing server to production server.
I couldn't enable the SEO Addon. Then after some research and help from the forum peers, I worked that out, by adding "return true" in the SEO Addon "actions.functions.post.php" page.
Now I am looking at this issue which says, "Not Found" for every link that I click on the website. I even did "uninstall" the addon and then installed it again. And tried to create a new product and checked that page, still shows "404 not found error"
I can't figure it out why is that happening!
If any of you guys can figure that out, it'd be of great help.
The changes that I made in "actions.functions.post.php" was just adding "return true" to activate the addon as it was not activating on its own earlier.
I tried reverting back the above page, and its still not working.
And I even tried uninstalling and installing it again as well.
Nothing seems to work really.
I'm sure that "mod_rewrite" is enabled as well since the addon won't be activated if the "mod_rewrite" is not enabled.