A Simple Problem: Links redirect away from intended pages

[Heinyken]

Hello,

My (dev) site: http://chc.vonrocko.com/

 

This is a custom design and I've coded the links in the header bar to go to where they belong, whether external or CMS pages, and I've activated SEO-friendly permalinks and updated my .htaccess file.

 

The link to what should be the customer's account: (chc.vonrocko.com/my-account.php) redirects to a strange 404: (chc.vonrocko.com/authentication?back=my-account.php), and I'm really not sure why.

 

Also, I cannot add items to my shopping cart, instead I get redirected to (chc.vonrocko.com/cart), which receives a 404.

 

Please halp!

[Heinyken]

The problem is definitely with my Preferences->SEO & URLs setting: Friendly URL. If Friendly URL is "on" -- I cannot add products to shopping bag.

[oxyweb]

Very nice theme

 

Try switching of Friendly URL, regenerate your htaccess, test you can still access the pages, then switch on friendly, and regenerate htaccess file... wait a few seconds before testing again.

 

If that doesn't work, delete your htaccess file manually first and don't forget to delete your cache especially in Firefox since it does crazy things sometimes.

[Heinyken]

Thanks, I'm just the coder, but I'll pass it along to my designer =D

 

That's more or less what I've been doing. It's not that the cart doesn't exist. And when I do de-activate the friendly URLs, I can get to the cart. The problem is that the client is probably going to want SEO-friendly URLs. Does some part of my theme need to be differently coded to allow for redirection? Or is it just the .htaccess that does the URLs and redirection?

 

Thanks for taking the time to respond!

-Ross

[oxyweb]

If my solutions work then friendly urls will be on.

 

Can you switch friendly urls back on so I can test again as at present i am getting to /order.php

 

AFAIK the htaccess takes care of all the redirects - that's part of its job

[oxyweb]

I see the error page now. Is your cart page called cart.php or cart.html in your htaccess file?

 

RewriteRule ^cart$ /cart.php

[Heinyken]

Sorry, I've been switching it on and off -- didn't see your posts. Hope I wasn't confusing you =D

 

I think these are the two rules that are offending:

 

RewriteRule ^authentication$ /authentication.php [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^cart$ /cart.php [QSA,L]

[Heinyken]

I'm still not totally certain how Smarty parses the theme files - could the redirection problem derive from the fact that in my theme folder the shopping cart (cart.php) template file is actually "shopping-cart.tpl"?

[oxyweb]

I think I know what the filename issue is

 

If I visit http://chc.vonrocko....e536c037b9fcf66 I get a 404 error

 

If I visit http://chc.vonrocko.com/cart.php?Submit=Add%20to%20cart&add=1&id_product=14&id_product_attribute=&qty=1&token=a67996495ea6b3cece536c037b9fcf66 I get the Shopping cart Summary.

 

are you calling your cart page cart.html? Back Office Preferences > SEO & URLs may not like it.

 

I think so anyway. Apologies if you've already thought of this!

 

Edit: I'm not sure on your question about the Smart Template but I do also have a shopping-cart.tpl in my theme - not 100% what it actually does!

[Heinyken]

Hm. I actually hadn't thought of that, but there isn't anywhere that I'm calling cart.html. In fact, all the links go to either order.php or my-account.php, the cart.php (or not .php!) comes about from the templating, I think.

[oxyweb]

This is intriguing. So now...

 

cart.php sows a 302 temp move (i'm pretty sure it's meant to do that but then I end up with this page http://chc.vonrocko....der?ipa=14 which failes with a 404 (no idea what that ipa=14 is). Again if I do http://chc.vonrocko....rder.php?ipa=14 it's fine.

 

So erm back to the drawing board?

[Heinyken]

Holy crap! Augh. I have no idea. It seems it's working alright without the SEO-friendly URLs, so I may just have to explain it that it's not going to work out.

 

Do you know the difference between the Preferences->SEO & URLs option to turn on friendly urls versus Tools->Generators option? The Generators' option simply makes it possible to SEO-friendly in the .htaccess, but the Preferences actually turns it on, right?

 

Redirecting to canonical urls doesn't seem to affect the site like SEO-friendly does.

 

indeed...

[oxyweb]

in SEO & URLS delete the cart.php & orders.php options to at least keep some of the friendly urls.

 

I think canonical indexes http://www.blah..com/myorder?session=dsd33d3n8nf2fas as just http://www.blah..com/myorder. I think. I think it's seperate to Friendly URL.

[Heinyken]

in SEO & URLS delete the cart.php & orders.php options to at least keep some of the friendly urls.

 

Do you mean actually delete those pages from the list of pages that gets displayed at Back Office->Preferences->SEO & URLs? I don't know PS well enough to say for certain, but wouldn't that be... not good?

[oxyweb]

Yes but you can always re-add them!

 

All it does is send anyone visiting /cart.php to /cart but of course we know that creates a 404 error anyway. You will need to regenerate the htaccess file.

[oxyweb]

Incidentally, this is what my htaccess file looks like (just for reference). I've made no changes to my actual seo files.

 

# .htaccess automaticaly generated by PrestaShop e-commerce open-source solution
# WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE MANUALLY. IF NECESSARY, ADD YOUR SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION WITH THE HTACCESS GENERATOR IN BACK OFFICE
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