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Jess McKenzie
Jess McKenzie

Reputation: 8385

Opencart -> Clean URLS

I am using Opencart 1.4.9.4 is there a way that I can change my urls from the query string to category/product?

Example:

Current:

index.php?route=product/category&path=57

Wanted:

domain.co.nz/animals/monkey.php

I have tried google but I have been getting mixed answers with the seo_urls.php and .htacess documents.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2608

Answers (3)

Max Popoff
Max Popoff

Reputation: 109

Indeed, in recent versions it is supported.

But Be aware of default Opencart SEO friendly URLs.

For example, you can have domain.co.nz/animals/monkey.php urls. But product monkey belongs to several categories. So you have: - domain.co.nz/animals/monkey.php - domain.co.nz/primates/monkey.php

And both links point to the same product page. It will produce duplicates in Google. And products HTML doesn't even contain canonical meta tags.

No so friendly URLs :)

Upvotes: 0

Jay Gilford
Jay Gilford

Reputation: 15151

1.4.X doesn't have a URL class, so unfortunately not. 1.5.X supports this however

Upvotes: 4

Tohid
Tohid

Reputation: 22543

OpenCart does support SEO friendly URLs by default. So you don't have to add a module or modify the code for that. All you need to do is to locate the file .htaccess.txt under the home folder of your website and rename it to .htaccess and also enable the SEO Friendly URLs option from your admin control panel. After you've done all that, you can set the "SEO Keyword" for your products by editing them.

Upvotes: 2

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