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Submitted by apeee on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 17:13
apeee
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In URL Aliases can I do something like:

cart/checkout.html cart/checkout edit delete
cart/index.html cart edit delete
catalog.html catalog edit delete
contact.html contact edit delete
index.html node edit delete
users/apeee.html user/1 edit delete
users/index.html user edit delete
users/password.html user/password edit delete
users/register.html user/register edit delete

Is it fine regarding security and working?

And how do I remove numbers in front of sub-catalog. Coding Tools (3)?
Is there a simple way in which I can just change the frontpage?

How can I set shipping charges for different amount? Say USD 5 for 25 to 50. USD 8 for 80 to 200?
permalink #1 Wed, 02/06/2008 - 19:05
apeee
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Workflow-ng is awesome. I just installed shipping price by amount myself without a problem. It is so simple and easy. I think workflow-ng is one the best thing that ubercart has.

Workflow-ng is like if this then this or else this and so on...

It has been only 2 days that I took ubercart and drupal (using both for the first time) seriously and I am pretty much satisfied that in such a short period I have learn and understood many things of ubercart and drupal. Great!

But I still don't have solution for questions asked above, expect the last one....Smiling

permalink #2 Wed, 02/06/2008 - 22:01
TR
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apeee wrote:
In URL Aliases can I do something like:

cart/checkout.html cart/checkout edit delete
cart/index.html cart edit delete
catalog.html catalog edit delete
contact.html contact edit delete
index.html node edit delete
users/apeee.html user/1 edit delete
users/index.html user edit delete
users/password.html user/password edit delete
users/register.html user/register edit delete

Is it fine regarding security and working?

I don't understand what you're trying to do here - no .html URLs in Drupal. Are these redirects from your old site? If so, what's the "edit delete" for?

apeee wrote:

And how do I remove numbers in front of sub-catalog. Coding Tools (3)?

admin/store/settings/catalog/edit/blocks
Uncheck "Display node counts in the catalog block"

apeee wrote:

Is there a simple way in which I can just change the frontpage?

admin/settings/site-information
Front page module: http://drupal.org/project/front
Other options: http://drupal.org/node/22237

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permalink #3 Thu, 02/07/2008 - 02:37
apeee
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TR wrote:
I don't understand what you're trying to do here - no .html URLs in Drupal. Are these redirects from your old site? If so, what's the "edit delete" for?

Can't I use .html in URL aliases like I wrote in the first post? But .html URL aliases is working fine with pathauto (auto clean urls).

Yes I'll be redirecting my old website pages to new one.
Actually I copied the URL aliases that I was using here, without any changes so it showed "edit delete" part with it. Smiling

permalink #4 Thu, 02/07/2008 - 10:08
Ryan

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apeee, I think the best answer is that no one's tried b/c no one's wanted to change those URLs before. You can give it a shot and let us know, but that has a good chance of causing issues w/ various parts of the cart.

permalink #5 Thu, 02/07/2008 - 11:41
TR
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apeee wrote:
TR wrote:
I don't understand what you're trying to do here - no .html URLs in Drupal. Are these redirects from your old site? If so, what's the "edit delete" for?

Yes I'll be redirecting my old website pages to new one.
Actually I copied the URL aliases that I was using here, without any changes so it showed "edit delete" part with it. Smiling

To redirect URLs defined by your old site, you can put the following in .htaccess (using your example...):

RewriteRule    ^cart/checkout\.html$       http://www.example.com/cart/checkout   [R=301,L]

So the old URL http://www.example.com/cart/checkout.html will be redirected to http://www.example.com/cart/checkout - the [R=301,L] tells search engines that the content is permanently moved and they should replace the old URL with the new URL in their index.

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permalink #6 Thu, 02/07/2008 - 12:21
apeee
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Ryan, I really don't want to experiment on my online web store as it can drastically have a bad impact on web users.

TR, Can this be done?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [L]

In my site all pages are in html extensions. For the best seo practice what should I do?

permalink #7 Thu, 02/07/2008 - 13:22
torgosPizza

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File extension won't have an effect on SEO placement. Just make sure you are keywording your pages correctly. This doesn't mean META tags, which really don't hold much weight these days, but Title tags, ALT tags on images, and even Refs and Titles on your anchor tags will! Make sure that your pages' content is actually "about" what they say they are about; and consider embedding links, both internal and external - mix it up with linking words and phrases. Link to other sites that have to do with your content, and most important of all, don't be spammy.

(This is 2 years of working for an SEO company talking - SEO optimization strategy changes all the time, but follow those basics and you should be able to get a decent foothold in the ranking process).

Sorry for the ramble Smiling

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permalink #8 Thu, 02/07/2008 - 13:51
apeee
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thanks torgos!

what my actual question is my current webstore is using http://www.domain.com/product123.html and soon now I'll be completely integrating it to drupal+ubercart what is the best way to go with it?

Can http://www.domain.com/catalog/product123 redirection will work fine in case of seo? or should I consider keeping .html extension?

permalink #9 Thu, 02/07/2008 - 15:16
TR
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Bug FinderFAQ ModeratorGetting busy with the Ubercode.

apeee wrote:
Ryan, I really don't want to experiment on my online web store as it can drastically have a bad impact on web users.

TR, Can this be done?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [L]

In my site all pages are in html extensions. For the best seo practice what should I do?

If your new URLs are exactly the same as your old URLs, but without the .html extension, then yes that will work. If they're not exactly the same, then you will have to have many rules, more like the example I gave. You should use the R=301, because that tells the search engine permanently change the URLs in their index.

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