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A heavily corrected Windows XP XAMPP Zend Framework Quickstart Tutorial Revision

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:46:31 +0000

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.intro.html

With many thanks to commenter alstanto on: 2010-04-07 22:04:18

Download Zend Framework 1.10.5 from:
http://downloads.zend.com/framework/1.10.5/ZendFramework-1.10.5.zip

Pre-Tutorial

Extract to c:\ZendFramework-1.10.5
Rename directory to c:\Zend

Add to Environment Path:

;C:\Zend\bin;C:\Zend\library;C:\xampp\php

Uncomment C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf
```
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
```

In C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf add:


DocumentRoot "c:\zs\quickstart\public"
ServerName quickstart.local
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"

DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all



DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs
ServerName localhost

In C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts add:

127.0.0.1 quickstart.local

This means your tutorial files are accessed via http://quickstart.local

Uncomment C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

In C:\xampp\php\php.ini add ;c:\zend\library; to include_path:
```
include_path = ".;C:\xampp\php\pear\;c:\Zend\library"
```

In C:\xampp\php\php.ini, uncomment

extension=php_pdo.dll
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll

Reboot

START tutorial

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.create-project.html

Run zf command line tool:

start, run, cmd
cd \
mkdir zs
cd zs
zf create project quickstart

This is not in the tutorial: add a rewrite rule to public/.htaccess so that the file looks as follows:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|txt|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php

View welcome page
```
http://quickstart.local
```

CONTINUE tutorial

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.create-layout.html

Return to the cmd line at C:\zs\quickstart
```
zf enable layout
```

Edit C:\zs\quickstart\application\BootStrap.php. Add this method to the Bootstrap class:

protected function _initDoctype()
{
$this->bootstrap('view');
$view = $this->getResource('view');
$view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
}

Add line to C:\zs\quickstart\application\configs\application.ini, production section:
```
resources.view[] =
```

Replace the contents of C:\zs\quickstart\application\layouts\scripts\layout.phtml with:


doctype() ?>




ZF Quickstart Application


Guestbook


layout()->content ?>

View new layout, note guestbook is not yet hooked up:
```
http://quickstart.local
```

Continue tutorial

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.create-model.html

Tutorial commands will not work in Windows. Tutorial asks you to run in cmd c:\zs\quickstart:

zf configure db-adapter "adapter=PDO_SQLITE&dbname=APPLICATION_PATH '/../data/db/guestbook.db'" production

The tutorial would also have you put all three databases in the [production] section. Instead run these commands:

zf configure db-adapter "adapter=PDO_SQLITE&dbname=APPLICATION_PATH \"/../data/db/guestbook.db\"" production
zf configure db-adapter "adapter=PDO_SQLITE&dbname=APPLICATION_PATH \"/../data/db/guestbook-testing.db\"" testing
zf configure db-adapter "adapter=PDO_SQLITE&dbname=APPLICATION_PATH \"/../data/db/guestbook-dev.db\"" development

This is neither part of the tutorial NOR the project.
If you want to use MySql instead of Sqlite:

In c:/xampp/php/php.ini, uncomment
```
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
```

At cmd c:/zs/quickstart, run command (change to your dbname, host, username, password)

zf configure db-adapter "adapter=PDO_MYSQL&dbname=mydb&host=localhost&username=root&password production

Restart Apache
In localhost/phpmyadmin create database mydb

Create the db directory in cmd at c:\zs\quickstart (you don’t do this for mysql):
```
mkdir data\db
attrib -R data
```
At this point the tutorial would have you create scripts/schema.sqlite.sql and other database files. The tutorial took you through creating data\db, so it should also mention that scripts needs to be created. In cmd at C:\zs\quickstart:
```
mkdir scripts
```

Create c:/zs/quickstart/scripts/schema.sqlite.sql (for mysql name the file schema.mysql.sql)

-- scripts/schema.sqlite.sql
--
-- You will need load your database schema with this SQL.
CREATE TABLE guestbook (
id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
email VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'noemail@test.com',
comment TEXT NULL,
created DATETIME NOT NULL
);
CREATE INDEX "id" ON "guestbook" ("id");

Create c:/zs/quickstart/scripts/data.sqlite.sql (for mysql name the file data.mysql.sql)

-- scripts/data.sqlite.sql
--
-- You can begin populating the database with the following SQL statements.
INSERT INTO guestbook (email, comment, created) VALUES
('ralph.schindler@zend.com','Hello! Hope you enjoy this sample zf application!',DATETIME('NOW'));
INSERT INTO guestbook (email, comment, created) VALUES('foo@bar.com','Baz baz baz, baz baz Baz baz baz - baz baz baz.',DATETIME('NOW'));

Create scripts/load.sqlite.php (for mysql name the file load.mysql.php and change all script references from sqlite to mysql). The tutorial does not include . Add these.

 'Load database with sample data',
'env|e-s'    => 'Application environment for which to create database (defaults to development)',
'help|h'     => 'Help -- usage message',
));
try {
$getopt->parse();
} catch (Zend_Console_Getopt_Exception $e) {
// Bad options passed: report usage
echo $e->getUsageMessage();
return false;
}
// If help requested, report usage message
if ($getopt->getOption('h')) {
echo $getopt->getUsageMessage();
return true;
}
// Initialize values based on presence or absence of CLI options
$withData = $getopt->getOption('w');
$env      = $getopt->getOption('e');
defined('APPLICATION_ENV')
|| define('APPLICATION_ENV', (null === $env) ? 'development' : $env);
// Initialize Zend_Application
$application = new Zend_Application(
APPLICATION_ENV,
APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini'
);
// Initialize and retrieve DB resource
$bootstrap = $application->getBootstrap();
$bootstrap->bootstrap('db');
$dbAdapter = $bootstrap->getResource('db');
// let the user know whats going on (we are actually creating a
// database here)
if ('testing' != APPLICATION_ENV) {
echo 'Writing Database Guestbook in (control-c to cancel): ' . PHP_EOL;
for ($x = 5; $x > 0; $x--) {
echo $x . "\r"; sleep(1);
}
}
// Check to see if we have a database file already
$options = $bootstrap->getOption('resources');
$dbFile  = $options['db']['params']['dbname'];
if (file_exists($dbFile)) {
unlink($dbFile);
}
// this block executes the actual statements that were loaded from
// the schema file.
try {
$schemaSql = file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . '/schema.sqlite.sql');
// use the connection directly to load sql in batches
$dbAdapter->getConnection()->exec($schemaSql);
chmod($dbFile, 0666);
if ('testing' != APPLICATION_ENV) {
echo PHP_EOL;
echo 'Database Created';
echo PHP_EOL;
}
if ($withData) {
$dataSql = file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . '/data.sqlite.sql');
// use the connection directly to load sql in batches
$dbAdapter->getConnection()->exec($dataSql);
if ('testing' != APPLICATION_ENV) {
echo 'Data Loaded.';
echo PHP_EOL;
}
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'AN ERROR HAS OCCURED:' . PHP_EOL;
echo $e->getMessage() . PHP_EOL;
return false;
}
// generally speaking, this script will be run from the command line
return true;
?>

At the cmd c:\zs\quickstart
```
php scripts/load.sqlite.php --withdata
```
At the cmd c:\zs\quickstart
```
zf create db-table Guestbook guestbook
```
Create application/models/GuestbookMapper.php
At the cmd c:\zs\quickstart
```
zf create model GuestbookMapper
```

Replace contents of application/models/GuestbookMapper.php with:

// application/models/GuestbookMapper.php
class Application_Model_GuestbookMapper
{
protected $_dbTable;
public function setDbTable($dbTable)
{
if (is_string($dbTable)) {
$dbTable = new $dbTable();
}
if (!$dbTable instanceof Zend_Db_Table_Abstract) {
throw new Exception('Invalid table data gateway provided');
}
$this->_dbTable = $dbTable;
return $this;
}
public function getDbTable()
{
if (null === $this->_dbTable) {
$this->setDbTable('Application_Model_DbTable_Guestbook');
}
return $this->_dbTable;
}
public function save(Application_Model_Guestbook $guestbook)
{
$data = array(
'email'   => $guestbook->getEmail(),
'comment' => $guestbook->getComment(),
'created' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
);
if (null === ($id = $guestbook->getId())) {
unset($data['id']);
$this->getDbTable()->insert($data);
} else {
$this->getDbTable()->update($data, array('id = ?' => $id));
}
}
public function find($id, Application_Model_Guestbook $guestbook)
{
$result = $this->getDbTable()->find($id);
if (0 == count($result)) {
return;
}
$row = $result->current();
$guestbook->setId($row->id)
->setEmail($row->email)
->setComment($row->comment)
->setCreated($row->created);
}
public function fetchAll()
{
$resultSet = $this->getDbTable()->fetchAll();
$entries   = array();
foreach ($resultSet as $row) {
$entry = new Application_Model_Guestbook();
$entry->setId($row->id)
->setEmail($row->email)
->setComment($row->comment)
->setCreated($row->created);
$entries[] = $entry;
}
return $entries;
}
}

At c:\zs\quickstart cmd
```
zf create model Guestbook
```

Replace contents of application/models/Guestbook.php with:

// application/models/Guestbook.php
class Application_Model_Guestbook
{
protected $_comment;
protected $_created;
protected $_email;
protected $_id;
public function __construct(array $options = null)
{
if (is_array($options)) {
$this->setOptions($options);
}
}
public function __set($name, $value)
{
$method = 'set' . $name;
if (('mapper' == $name) || !method_exists($this, $method)) {
throw new Exception('Invalid guestbook property');
}
$this->$method($value);
}
public function __get($name)
{
$method = 'get' . $name;
if (('mapper' == $name) || !method_exists($this, $method)) {
throw new Exception('Invalid guestbook property');
}
return $this->$method();
}
public function setOptions(array $options)
{
$methods = get_class_methods($this);
foreach ($options as $key => $value) {
$method = 'set' . ucfirst($key);
if (in_array($method, $methods)) {
$this->$method($value);
}
}
return $this;
}
public function setComment($text)
{
$this->_comment = (string) $text;
return $this;
}
public function getComment()
{
return $this->_comment;
}
public function setEmail($email)
{
$this->_email = (string) $email;
return $this;
}
public function getEmail()
{
return $this->_email;
}
public function setCreated($ts)
{
$this->_created = $ts;
return $this;
}
public function getCreated()
{
return $this->_created;
}
public function setId($id)
{
$this->_id = (int) $id;
return $this;
}
public function getId()
{
return $this->_id;
}
}

At cmd z:\zs\quickstart
```
zf create controller Guestbook
```

Add these lines to c:\zs\quickstart\application\controllers\GuestbookController.php init method

$guestbook = new Application_Model_GuestbookMapper();
$this->view->entries = $guestbook->fetchAll();

So that GuestbookController.php indexAction now looks like this:

// application/controllers/GuestbookController.php

public function indexAction()
{
$guestbook = new Application_Model_GuestbookMapper();
$this->view->entries = $guestbook->fetchAll();
}

Change out the contents of c:\zs\quickstart\application\views\scripts\guestbook\index.phtml with:


Sign Our Guestbook
Guestbook Entries: 


entries as $entry): ?>
escape($entry->email) ?>
escape($entry->comment) ?>

View the guest book
```
http://quickstart.local
```
Note that the sign guest book is not implemented yet

At cmd c:\zs\quickstart
```
zf create form Guestbook
```

Replace application/forms/Guestbook.php with:
(add which are missing in tutorial)

setMethod('post');
// Add an email element
$this->addElement('text', 'email', array(
'label'      => 'Your email address:',
'required'   => true,
'filters'    => array('StringTrim'),
'validators' => array(
'EmailAddress',
)
));
// Add the comment element
$this->addElement('textarea', 'comment', array(
'label'      => 'Please Comment:',
'required'   => true,
'validators' => array(
array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 20))
)
));
// Add a captcha
$this->addElement('captcha', 'captcha', array(
'label'      => 'Please enter the 5 letters displayed below:',
'required'   => true,
'captcha'    => array(
'captcha' => 'Figlet',
'wordLen' => 5,
'timeout' => 300
)
));
// Add the submit button
$this->addElement('submit', 'submit', array(
'ignore'   => true,
'label'    => 'Sign Guestbook',
));
// And finally add some CSRF protection
$this->addElement('hash', 'csrf', array(
'ignore' => true,
));
}
}

?>

In c:\zs\quickstart cmd run
```
zf create action sign Guestbook
```

Replace application/controllers/GuestbookController.php signAction() with:

public function signAction()
{
$request = $this->getRequest();
$form    = new Application_Form_Guestbook();
if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
if ($form->isValid($request->getPost())) {
$comment = new Application_Model_Guestbook($form->getValues());
$mapper  = new Application_Model_GuestbookMapper();
$mapper->save($comment);
return $this->_helper->redirector('index');
}
}
$this->view->form = $form;
}

Replace application/views/scripts/guestbook/sign.phtml contents with:


Please use the form below to sign our guestbook!
form->setAction($this->url());
echo $this->form;

View and add guestbook entries
```
http://quickstart.local
```

zf configure db-adapter "adapter=PDO_MYSQL&dbname=zipforce&host=localhost&username=root&password production

CONTINUE tutorial

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.create-form.html

Replace column substring SQL Server columns

admin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:17:29 +0000

Replace all instances of FINDTHIS with REPLACEWITHTHIS in columns COLUMN1 and COLUMN2 of table TABLE where those substrings are in fact found

update TABLE set
COLUMN1=REPLACE(COLUMN1,’FINDTHIS’,'REPLACEWITHTHIS’),
COLUMN2=REPLACE(COLUMN2,’FINDTHIS’,'REPLACEWITHTHIS’)
from TABLE
where
COLUMN1 like ‘%SUBSTRINGPIECE%’ or COLUMN2 like ‘%SUBSTRINGPIECE%’

Zen Cart UPS XML does not work with zones

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:59:47 +0000

You’re here because you want to run UPS XML for Zen Cart with zones. It configures ok if you have no zones set, but as soon as you add a zone it displays the “unconfigured” yellow icon.

The admin and the catalog both use the same code to determine if a UPS rate exists. The problem is, the admin doesn’t care about where that zone is, but the shipping checkout wants it to match the recipient’s zone. So by definition the admin can never be configured because it never matches an empty “order” zone, there’s no concept of an order on the admin end but the admin will not mark the UPS xml as “configured” until it matches this ghost zone.

It might configure ok in your store, but only if it’s set to “no zone,” which means it’ll show up for any destination whether you want it to or not. As soon as you try to add a zone it refuses to configure.

The fact is that whole paragraph of code was off, I wonder if people are using this module successfully. There’s NO WAY you could ever have configured it to do zones!

Change includes/modules/shipping/upsxml.php (upsxml.php,v 1.1.4 2004/12/19) right after the curl code setup to the following:

if (($this->enabled == true) && ((int)MODULE_SHIPPING_UPSXML_RATES_ZONE > 0)) {
$this->enabled=false;
if (empty($order->delivery['country']['id'])) {
$admin=true; }else{$admin=false;
}
/*
$check = $db->Execute(“select zone_id from ” . TABLE_ZONES_TO_GEO_ZONES . ” where geo_zone_id = ‘” . MODULE_SHIPPING_UPSXML_RATES_ZONE . “‘ and zone_country_id = ‘” . $order->delivery['country']['id'] . “‘ order by zone_id”);
*/
if ($admin) {
$sql = “select zone_id from ” . TABLE_ZONES_TO_GEO_ZONES . ” where geo_zone_id = ‘” . MODULE_SHIPPING_UPSXML_RATES_ZONE.”‘”;
} else {
$sql = “select zone_id from ” . TABLE_ZONES_TO_GEO_ZONES . ” where zone_id=’”. $order->delivery['zone_id'] . “‘ and geo_zone_id = ‘” . MODULE_SHIPPING_UPSXML_RATES_ZONE . “‘”;
}

$check = $db->Execute($sql);
if (!$check->EOF) {
$this->enabled = true;
}
}

Programmatically determine Joomla homepage

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:01:21 +0000

If both mod_rewrite and 301′s are out in full force the home page is not going to be identifiable by a Server query_string containing “frontpage.” To determine if the current code is on the home page:

$s = filter_var($_REQUEST['QUERY_STRING'], FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);
if (empty($s)) {

//you’re on the home page

}

VirtueMart Authorize.net Code Changes

admin — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:38:23 +0000

VirtueMart does not automate Authorize.net test mode. It doesn’t read classes/payment/ps_authorize.cfg.php AN_TEST_REQUEST to see if it should send test mode to Authorize.Net. A quick fix, alter

FILE CHANGE classes/ps_checkout.php lines 24, 159, 484
line 24:
define (TESTMODE,true);

Lines 159, 484, call validate with TESTMODE rather than hard-coded “false.”
159:
if ( !$this->validate_payment_method( $d, TESTMODE )) {
484:
if (!$this->validate_payment_method($d, TESTMODE)) { //Change false to true to Let the user play with the VISA Testnumber

Restoring SQL bak for data backed up on a different machine

admin — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:56:48 +0000

Â ”the physical file name” “may be incorrect”RESTORE DATABASE DBName
FROM DISK = ‘C:\mypath\backedUpDb.bak’
WITH
MOVE ‘backedUpDb_dat’ TO ‘C:\mypath\DBName.mdf’,
MOVE ‘backedUpDb_log’ TO ‘C:\mypath\DBName.ldf’
GO

Where
DBName is the name the db will have on your local machine
backedUpDb.bak is the backup with the wrong physical path
backedUpDb_dat and backedUpDb_log are described below
mdf and ldf are the names and locations you want DBName to have after restoration

Â Get backedUpDb_dat from:
SQL Enterprise or Management Studio
Databases
Restore Database
To Database [DBName]
From Device: [click ...]
Backup Media
File
Add
Browse to backedUpDb.bak
OK
Select Restore checkbox
Options
The Original Filename is you backedUpDb_dat and backedUpDb_logOptions
Â

VirtueMart Product Details Page SEO Title Tags

admin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:08:50 +0000

In “administrator components com_virtuemart html shop.product_details.php,” add the category name to the page title $mainframe->setPageTitle( html_entity_decode( substr($category_name.” “.$product_name, 0, 60 ) ));

VirtueMart Category Page SEO Title Tags

admin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:14:26 +0000

In order to set keyword-rich title tags on a VirtueMart category listing page:

In “administrator components com_virtuemart html shop.index_sdm.php” (your mileage may vary on file name), add and initialize a $title variable in the top:

$title=”";

After setting the category name, append the category to the title:

$catname = shopMakeHtmlSafe($db->f(“category_name”)); $title .=$catname.”,”;
This presumes your shop.index page calls

$mainframe->setPageTitle($title);

Painful 301 domain redirect discoveries using Joomla com_sef 404sef

admin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:47:33 +0000

Answers the question:
How to redirect domains given tools .htaccess, parked domain redirect and Joomla component 404sef.
If you use Joomla and care at all about search engine rankings you’ll have to use a SEF translation of some kind. I chose 404sef and I’m grateful for what it does. Here’s how to get around something it doesn’t do, which is handling non-primary domains.
It will make Search Enging Friendly links for the current domain, but if you redirect a different domain to the 404Sef’d one the component will cough up a hair ball.

Setup:

Joomla 1.0.10
SEF404 PR1
Siteground.com hosting cpanel with parked domains
Global config: SEF on
SEF404 config: SEF on
webconfs.com search engine friendly redirect checker
.htaccess reflects 3rd party SEO
primary domain http://www.bombshelters.com/
secondary domains that need to redirect in a search engine friendly way to http://www.bombshelters.com/:

biologicalprotection.com
biologicalshelter.com
biologicalshelter.us
biologicalshelters.com
biologicalshelters.us
blastshelters.com
blastshelters.us
bombshelter.us
chemicalprotection.us
combatshelter.com
disastershelter.com
falloutshelter.us
governmentprotection.com
nbcshelter.com
nbcshelter.us
nuclearprotection.us
nuclearshelter.us
nuclearshelters.com
radiusdefense.com
radiusengineering.us
radiusengineeringinternational.com
radiusengineeringintl.com
radiusshelters.com
saferoomprotection.us
shelterengineering.com
shelterprotection.us
sheltersystems.us
survivalshelter.us
survivalshelters.us
undergroundshelter.us
undergroundshelterengineering.com
undergroundshelters.com
undergroundshelters.us
wmdprotection.us
Setup secondary domains to resolve to primary domain

These domains are all registered on network solutions. I changed the primary and secondary name servers on all of them to the siteground name server for bombshelters.com. Then on cpanel for bombshelters.com I used the “parked domains” tool to point each of the domains to bombshelters.com.

This worked, and then broken suddenly tonight. It actually probably broke when I installed 404SEF I just didn’t realize it.

Symptoms

I guess I had 404SEF off when I redirected the domains to the bombshelters.com name server because m initial tests worked great. You’d type undergroundshelter.us and the browser would display bombshelters.com content under the undergroundshelter.us address bar. When I tried that tonight I got “this page cannot be displayed.”

The pubic_html errorlog pointed to:

[24-Jul-2006 00:58:57] PHP Warning: strpos() []: Empty delimiter. in /home/bombshel/public_html/components/com_sef/sef404.php on line 83

[23-Jul-2006 23:04:24] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sefreltoabs() in /home/bombshel/public_html/components/com_content/content.html.php on line 584

Things that don’t fix the problem

Turning off 404SEF: it fixes the problem but creates the old problem of unfriendly URLs

Ensuring the strpos delimiter (and target) are not empty on sef404.php:

[24-Jul-2006 00:58:57] PHP Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in /home/bombshel/public_html/components/com_sef/sef404.php on line 83

bold line below is line 83

if (!empty($pathdata) && (!empty($sefconfig->suffix)))

{
if (strpos($pathdata,$sefconfig->suffix) !== false)
$path_array[$x] = str_replace($sefconfig->suffix,”",$pathdata);
$x++;
}

This is fine as far as it goes, it’s good to test inputs before assuming they have content, but it addresses a symptom, not a problem.

Similar to #2, defining sefRelAbs function against its will

]: Empty delimiter. in /home/bombshel/public_html/components/com_sef/sef404.php on line 83]: Empty delimiter. in /home/bombshel/public_html/components/com_sef/sef404.php on line 83content.html.php:
if (!function_exists(‘sefRelToAbs’))
{
function sefRelToAbs($string) {}
}
What does work

In .htaccess rewrite any domain that is not http://www.bombshelters.com/ to be http://www.bombshelters.com/. Works for “bombshelters.com” (without www), “falloutshelter.us,” and etc. secondary domains.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !bombshelters.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://bombshelters.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Big thank you to http://enarion.net/web/apache/htaccess/redirect-www-and-no-www/

and webconfs.com search engine friendly redirect checker

404SEF Joomla Directories-as-Filenames

admin — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:46:10 +0000

Joomla’s 404SEF component can be tricky if you want to use directory names instead of file extensions, aka

http://www.bombshelters.com/Education/Biological-Bioterror-Weapons-Effects

not

http://www.bombshelters.com/Education/Biological-Bioterror-Weapons-Effects.html

First, lowercase is on by default. Second, default file extension of .html hurls your pages into deep space.

To hae both, go to 404 config, set All Lowercase to No, set File Suffix to a blank textbox.