Ultimate SEO URLs for oscommerce Version 2.0

[a12c4magic]

From my experience with this Ultimate SEO URLs for oscommerce Version 2.0 contribution it is MHO that installing it is only helpful if your host allows rewrite.

If your host doesn’t allow rewrite you end up with both cPath= and cName= urls which results in duplicate content.

I have learnt that if your host doesn’t allow redirect you can use your includes/application_top.php to redirect from none www to www successfully, however to try and redirect old cPath urls to cName urls using includes/application_top.php causes more problems than it fixes.

I guess the moral of this story is if it isn’t broken don’t fix it

[ArmenT]

Is there a good reason you aren't using a host that supplies mod_rewrite? Surely, it isn't that hard to switch?

[a12c4magic]

Originally posted by ArmenT
Is there a good reason you aren't using a host that supplies mod_rewrite? Surely, it isn't that hard to switch?

The main object of my post was to warn others of the potential problem if they installed that particular contribution and had a host that didn’t allow rewrite.

Anyway at the time I encountered the problem my host was on his annual vacation and was not available, however having said that I would now be able to change hosts, but seeing as I have now resolved the problem of duplicate content etc changing host may not be required although at some point it may be prudent to do so.