Url Displaying Wrong Content?

Okay, this is strange. I've got an .htaccess file which contains url rewrites but some of them show the wrong content. For example products_detail.php?ProductID=49 has a tidy url which points to it but instead of Product ID 49 being displayed an entire category is listed. This is happening with several of them and I've checked with my host who has said it is to do with the software.

Details attached.

Thanks.

you have conflicting rules

this rule:
RewriteRule ink$ products_results.php?Search=1&ProductCategoryID[]=2

is overwriting this one:
RewriteRule fluorescent_ink$ products_detail.php?ProductID=118

because they both end with ink


mod rewrite is not my specialty, so i am not entirely sure of the exact syntax, but I believe it should use:
RewriteRule ^ink$ products_results.php?Search=1&ProductCategoryID[]=2
RewriteRule ^fluorescent_ink$ products_detail.php?ProductID=118

to anchor the expression to the start of the string.

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  you have conflicting rules

this rule:
RewriteRule ink$ products_results.php?Search=1&ProductCategoryID[]=2

is overwriting this one:
RewriteRule fluorescent_ink$ products_detail.php?ProductID=118

because they both end with ink


mod rewrite is not my specialty, so i am not entirely sure of the exact syntax, but I believe it should use:
RewriteRule ^ink$ products_results.php?Search=1&ProductCategoryID[]=2
RewriteRule ^fluorescent_ink$ products_detail.php?ProductID=118

to anchor the expression to the start of the string.  

Good answer Jason. I changed the re-writes around so they have different endings and it fixed it! I never knew this was an issue, not come across it before in rewrites.

I'd like to re-write all the urls in the store but the product list pages are tricky because all the product listing are generated from the database. Is there an easy way around this? I can only think of two options, strip the code and manually list the products (drag and defeats the point of the store) or add a column to the database and enter simple urls then change the reference in dreamweaver to point to the new column.

Have I missed a trick? Is there a better way?

Thanks Jason.

  dd a column to the database and enter simple urls then change the reference in dreamweaver to point to the new column.  

This is your best option. We recently held a webinar on Power Store, and this one of the topics Ray covered.

Jason,

The webinar was great and following those instructions all is working perfectly! Just getting one glitch - the custom pages have a space in the url e.g. page.php?Custom%20Menu=1 but when I write in the .htaccess file thus: RewriteRule ^support$ page.php?Custom%20Menu=1 the page is blank. I've turned on error reporting in page.php but no value shows. If I leave out the %20 the site stops working for obvious reasons.

Any ideas? BTW I take there's no way to permalink the next and previous links on the product display pages?

Thanks for all the help - still got about two and half hours of webinar to watch!

use an underscore in the rule instead of a space:
RewriteRule ^support$ page.php?Custom_Menu=1

I'm not aware of an easy way to permalink the next and last links, though I have to confess that URL Rewriting is not my specialty.

Lol, mine neither. Okay Jason you've been a great help and the underscore trick is a great answer!

Cheers.

Jason just to close this I have used the technique that was in Ray's webinar and the whole site now has SEO urls including the results.php so delighted with this.

Thanks a lot.