301 redirect broken because ?controller=404

[prestalearn]

Ive recently upgraded to ps 1.5 and with my 301 redirects prestashop adds ?controller=404 at the end of the new links so the redirect doesnt work an get a 404?

If I remove ?controller manually in browser it works.

 

Any clues why prestashop adds this? My 301 looks like this:

Redirect 301 /oldcategory/oldproduct.html /newcategory/newproduct.html

 

this redirect puts the visitor to /newcategory/newproduct.html?controller=404 instead of just /newcategory/newproduct.htm.

 

Any help would be really appriciated!

[cocothecat]

Daft question but since upgrading have you tried to regenerate the htaccess file and turn friendly urls on/ off and back on again? I had a problem where the htaccess needed to be refreshed after a recent upgrade.

[cocothecat]

The other thing to check also is in 1.5 the category number is dropped when you view a product. So you may need to alter yout 301

[El Patron]

did anyone resolve this

 

Ive recently upgraded to ps 1.5 and with my 301 redirects prestashop adds ?controller=404 at the end of the new links so the redirect doesnt work an get a 404?
If I remove ?controller manually in browser it works.

Any clues why prestashop adds this? My 301 looks like this:

Redirect 301 /oldcategory/oldproduct.html /newcategory/newproduct.html

this redirect puts the visitor to /newcategory/newproduct.html?controller=404 instead of just /newcategory/newproduct.htm.

Any help would be really appriciated!

 

 

did you resolve this issue?  another member is having the same issue and if you resolved and could share, that would be awesome...

[cocothecat]

In the new url you should put the full domain

 

Redirect 301 /oldcategory/oldproduct.html    http://www.mydomain.com/newcategory/newproduct.html

 

At the moment your trying to tell it to redirect from one folder to another folder when in fact the file structure has changed.

[El Patron]

solved for this community member here

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/283497-solved-prestashop-google-indexed-links-adding-controller404-to-the-end-of-url/?do=findComment&comment=1427304