Posted: 25 February 2010 at 12:46pm | IP Logged

Hi

I am new to this. actually not but i am not able to understand url rewrite with regulare expression!

I have requirement of creating URL rewrite for the product listing & product detail Pages.

We have product categories , subcategories and their products. It has also the article pages.

I have made the url rewrite for the article pages by assing mannualy database field call parsename

RewriteCond Host:www.14gaam.com
RewriteRule /(.*)\.htm /parse.asp?ParseName=$1

www.14gaam.com/page.asp?page_Id=25 to

www.14gaam.com/about-us.htm 

The Products Catgories are

Main Category : Wedding-Cards
Sub Category  : 1)Hindu Wedding Cards
                      2)Muslim Wedding Cads
                      3)Christian Wedding Cads
                      4)Parsi Wedding Cads
                      5)Sikh Wedding Cads
                      6)Ishai Wedding Cads

I want the products pages for the category is http://www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards.htm

for products pages of Subcategory should be like this
http://www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards/hindu-wedding-cards.htm
http://www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards/muslim-wedding-cards.htm
http://www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards/christian-wedding-cards.htm
http://www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards/parsi-wedding-cards.htm
http://www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards/sikh-wedding-cards.htm
http://www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards/ishai-wedding-cards.htm

How i can make the top level category as virtual directory

Thanks alot for your help

Posted: 26 February 2010 at 11:19am | IP Logged

Yes

Let me expalin in more details
I have lite versoin 2.0

I have article pages that has url rewrite as follows
When any page request from article.asp?page_id=1 I transfer them with asp 301 method to their parse name like
Requst Page: http://www.14gaam.com?page_id=1
Redirect Page : http://www.14gaam.com/about-us.htm
With Following Script

RewriteCond Host:14gaam.com
RewriteRule /(.*)\.htm /page.asp?ParseName=$1

Above rule work fine.!

Now we have Category Products in which products are listing.

Top Level Category : Wedding Cards (Category_Id = 1, Parent_Id =0)
Sub Level Category 1) : Hindu Wedding Cards (category_Id = 2, Parent_Id = 1)
Sub Level Category 1) : Muslim Wedding Cards (Category_Id = 3, Parent_Id = 1)
Sub Level Category 1) : Parsi Wedding Cards (Category_Id = 4, Parent_Id = 1)
Sub Level Category 1) : Christian Wedding Cards (Category_Id = 5, Parent_Id = 1)
Sub Level Category 1) : Ishai Wedding Cards (Category_Id = 6, Parent_Id = 1)

Currently we have pages like www.14gaam.com/categoryproducts.asp?category_id=1

Its list all the products of the top leven and sublevel categories

Now if we open subcategory like www.14gaam.com/categoryproducts.asp?category_id=2

It list only the products of Category "Hindu wedding cards".
for other subcategory same as above

Top Level Category URL (Wedding Cards)

Now Instead of www.14gaam.com/categoryproducts.asp?category_Id=1
I want like www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards

Sub Level Category URL (Hindu Wedding Cards)

Now Instead of www.14gaam.com/categoryproducts.asp?categoryId=2
I want like www.14gaam.com/wedding-cards/hindu-wedding-cards

Now for the products  detail i want something like this..

Currenly we have url like
www.14gaam.com/products.asp?product_id=25
I want the url like www.14gaam.com/hindu-wedding-cards/glossy-design.htm

Is there anyway we can do this with version 2.0 lite or version 3.0.

Thanks Anton for ur kind help.

Hetal Patel

Posted: 03 March 2010 at 4:08pm | IP Logged

How & where i can make these three files
catmapfile.txt,revcatmapfile.txt  and revprodmapfile.txt files. The text in the files are hard coded? or it create automatically?