Need Help with MAGENTO - URL rewrite
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Hello... Hopefully a Magento expert will stumble across this question and help me out.
I have noticed that my site is no longer as prominent as it once was for specific product pages... I am looking for help in rewriting the URL's for the product pages.
I want it to have xyz.com/product (which exists if you hard code it into the site)
If you wind up on the product by clicking throught the categories the url looks like:
xyz.com/category/subcategory/product.
Does anyone know how to make it so when you land on a product page it is just xyz.com/product ?
My Site is : http://goo.gl/JgK1e
Thanks for the help...
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I will try and make those changes and get back to you... Thanks for all your help
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In Magento? I did do the reindexing/cache.... should the change be immediate?
After i make the changes in the admin nothing changes in my site.... am i being impatient or is it supposed to change immediately?
thanks...
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Hmm not sure. Did you reindex / recache after that?
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Thanks for all the responses...
Matthew,
I've attempted to change that setting and it didn't make any changes...
Any other ideas or any idea why that setting doesn't fix it?
Thanks,
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I'm not sure this will work as mine is turned on but there is an option titled:
Use Categories Path for Product URLs - Yes/No
under System/Configuration/Catalog/Search Engine Optimizations.
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To add to Andrea's response, depending on what you want to do, it might not even be a Magento issue. You can do URL rewriting with the webserver itself for example. What I'm wondering is, are both of the pages indexed in the example above? If so then you've probably got duplicate content going on. One way to get around it would be to canonicalize one of the links and then 301 the other to the canonical.
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I'm not a Magento expert by any means - I had a similar situation and the first thing my IT asked me was about where the files were stored and how they were layers as that determines how many subfolders down the info is and the path that has to be taken to get the content there. Meaning, I couldn't just rewrite my URLs, we had to look at how our data was stored in folders and where the folders were accessible first.
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