"-detail" string in the SEO Suffix

[steinarasb]

Hi all.

I've got a J!1.7.2 site with VM2, migrated from J!1.5 and VM1 up and running (dev).

I'm now facing an issue where no mather what category I click on in the shop-front, every product in the database is displayed (with pagination).

Is this a known issue?
Anyone got a way to fix it?

Regards,
Steinar

[Milbo]

vm1 or vm2? which version? I think it was in the L release, update to M please

[steinarasb]

Hi Milbo.
I was just writing a update when you posted your reply.

Not sure what caused this.
This problem eksisted both with virtuemart1.9.8.RC2L and after an AOI upgrade to virtuemart1.9.8.RC2M.
I reinstalled virtuemart1.9.8.RC2M from the extention manager, and now I can browse my categories.

What seems to be a problem now is that when i try to view a product page I get redirected to the shop front (but with the product URL in the address line).

I guess your questions is addressed in this post

[steinarasb]

Ref: "What seems to be a problem now is that when i try to view a product page I get redirected to the shop front (but with the product URL in the address line)."

This actually worked after i re-added the "-detail" string in the SEO Suffix.

I'd prefer nothing there actually.
SEO-wise product-name is favoured to product-name-detail IHMO.
Is this supposed to be possible?

[Milbo]

Be sure that you updated your core and the aio. When you have an old aio installed, you must download it manually. All AIO before K point to the update stream of the core.

You should look in the SEO board for your last question. The detail is needed to differ a category from a productdetail. We use a suffix, because the last words in the URL are less important. You can even adjust the word to your language/taste.

[PRO]

I'd prefer nothing there actually.
SEO-wise product-name is favoured to product-name-detail IHMO.
Is this supposed to be possible?

you can use

"buy" or "sale" and will not hurt, and maybe help SEO.

[steinarasb]

Good idea, I'll keep it in mind.
One could also consider entering a geographical name, in thos cases where that makes sense.