SEO Help! Please.

[hutchinson_1989]

Hello,

I have created a shop using OpenCart (MrTechStore) and i need to get the website indexing properly.

Having looked everywhere online i am unable to figure out how to enable mod_rewrite and get friendly URLs working. If you look at the site you'll see what i mean.

Any help would be appreciated. I've been trying for weeks.

Thanks a lot everyone.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Create a text file called ".htaccess" and add at the first line of the text file "RewriteEngine On".

Then upload it on your system and mod_rewrite is enabled :p

If you need any help with the changing of the urls itself don't bother to ask ^^

[-Alex-]

Go to yoursite.com/admin and login

System > Settings

Server

Use SEO URL's: [x] Yes [ ] No

Rename ./.htaccess.txt to ./.htaccess in your FTP client/cPanel file manager.

[hutchinson_1989]

Create a text file called ".htaccess" and add at the first line of the text file "RewriteEngine On".

Then upload it on your system and mod_rewrite is enabled :p

If you need any help with the changing of the urls itself don't bother to ask ^^

I don't need help with changing of the URLs but i'll try what you have suggested.

Thanks.

[-Alex-]

No no no no no.... there is already a .htaccess included in the opencart folder. You just need to rename it from .htaccess.txt to .htaccess.... it already contains all of the rules you'd need to setup.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

No no no no no.... there is already a .htaccess included in the opencart folder. You just need to rename it from .htaccess.txt to .htaccess.... it already contains all of the rules you'd need to setup.

I didn't knew there was, thanks for the headsup :p

[-Alex-]

For reference...

# 1.To use URL Alias you need to be running apache with mod_rewrite enabled. 

# 2. In your opencart directory rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess.

# For any support issues please visit: http://www.opencart.com

Options +FollowSymlinks

# Prevent Directoy listing 
Options -Indexes

# Prevent Direct Access to files
<FilesMatch "\.(tpl|ini|log)">
 Order deny,allow
 Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

# SEO URL Settings
RewriteEngine On
# If your opencart installation does not run on the main web folder make sure you folder it does run in ie. / becomes /shop/ 

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule sitemap.xml /index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

### Additional Settings that may need to be enabled for some servers 
### Uncomment the commands by removing the # sign in front of it.
### If you get an "Internal Server Error 500" after enabling any of the following settings, restore the # as this means your host doesn't allow that.

# 1. If your cart only allows you to add one item at a time, it is possible register_globals is on. This may work to disable it:
# php_flag register_globals off

# 2. If your cart has magic quotes enabled, This may work to disable it:
# php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off

# 3. Set max upload file size. Most hosts will limit this and not allow it to be overridden but you can try
# php_value upload_max_filesize 999M

# 4. set max post size. uncomment this line if you have a lot of product options or are getting errors where forms are not saving all fields
# php_value post_max_size 999M

# 5. set max time script can take. uncomment this line if you have a lot of product options or are getting errors where forms are not saving all fields
# php_value max_execution_time 200

# 6. set max time for input to be recieved. Uncomment this line if you have a lot of product options or are getting errors where forms are not saving all fields
# php_value max_input_time 200