Enabling SEO if hosting with Host Gator

Business Marketing & SEO
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Hi everyone. I’m using version 2.1.2 and my hosting provider is Host Gator.



I’ve been trying to enable the SEO addon. It won’t enable. I read through the CS-Cart Knowledge Base and subsequently checked the php information for the database in the Administration Tab. No where is there a mention of the mod_rewrite module added in that information page.



So, I called Host Gator to find out what can be done - but the customer service rep didn’t know how to help me other than sending me a link to an article on what mod_rewrite is. Because I simply don’t know much about it I didn’t know which questions to ask or what to press for.



Did I just get an uninformed customer service rep? Is there something I can do in the cpanel for Host Gator to fix things? Is the mod_rewrite module simply a matter of putting some lines of code in the htaccess file?



I could really use help here. Thanks.

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You got a bad rep. Try the online chat with support on the home page. It’s normally good. They will create a support ticket and escalate it if needed. I haven’t used them for a while but I thought they supported mod_rewrite on shared accounts.

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Thanks for the info.



One more question. Once I enable the SEO add on, will my previous URL’s with the previous format - ex:



www.mydomain.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=30851



start 404’ing on me or will they still remain valid along with the new search engine friendly urls?

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They will just redirect. You can use either to access the page.

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Thanks.



Just to spread some good vibes, I’m really grateful to this community for the responses I’ve gotten to my questions whenever I’ve posted on these forums.

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I too have a hostGator shared account. When I enabled SEO, many of the pages would default back to the homepage. It turned out that my old gulp Zen Cart data was in the .htaccess page and I needed to update that info with the data provided here in another thread. As soon as I did the update, everything worked perfect.

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I use Hostgator and had no problems installing the SEO mod?



Are you using the latest version software?