Category Tree links

[lesliekirk]

I've noticed that the Category Tree links are not working correctly, as in they are not linked as expected. The accordions are working, the correct categories are being pulled in but the links are just domainname.com/Merchant2/


But I still think I have a bigger problem - the theme updates are not "sticking". I think it might be best for me to open a support ticket. I can't do anything constructive if these fields keep resetting themselves.

[Matt Zimmermann]

Hi Leslie,

Was support able to get the site working so your updates "stick"?

[lesliekirk]

Hi Leslie,

Was support able to get the site working so your updates "stick"?

They are just now looking into it. I think there may be a bigger issue. When I went back to try and look at the Page templates, when I clicked the User Interface link, I got this error message

[lesliekirk]

Now that support has got this ReadyTheme to stick (yeah it was weird) let's move back to the Cattree. Martin made an interesting comment that has me now asking, does Colossus not work with the Legacy SEO Settings for the Link Source? This site is set to it.

[Matt Zimmermann]

The link should be pulling the Canonical URI for the category, so Legacy Links should work as long as they are stock and not something custom like Emporium Plus or Sebenza. I would recommend converting to URI management though to ease maintenance and improve load time.

[lesliekirk]

The link should be pulling the Canonical URI for the category, so Legacy Links should work as long as they are stock and not something custom like Emporium Plus or Sebenza. I would recommend converting to URI management though to ease maintenance and improve load time.

I'll double check to make sure there isn't anything "custom" but I don't think there was. I did think it odd that I was told that I "had" to use the URI Management.

[lesliekirk]

It looks like the site doesn't have anything outside of the Legacy configuration. The Legacy configuration works without issue in the ReadyTheme Navigation Sets.

[Matt Zimmermann]

Hi Leslie,

Is the site using the Legacy Long Links or Short Links?

[lesliekirk]

Short (Legacy SEO Settings)

Example for the Category link style

https://www.domain.com/page/Store_Co.../Category_Code

[Matt Zimmermann]

Hi Leslie,

It looks like the function to pull the canonical URL only functions when using URI Management and not Legacy SEO links. As I mentioned previously, I would recommend converting to URI Management to ease maintenance and improve load time.

[lesliekirk]

Hi Leslie,

It looks like the function to pull the canonical URL only functions when using URI Management and not Legacy SEO links. As I mentioned previously, I would recommend converting to URI Management to ease maintenance and improve load time.

Thank you for confirming that for me. It sounds like it might be something that should be included in the installation documentation. Once support figures out why I keep having an issue with the site throwing an error

Miva Merchant returned an invalid response.
Function: PageList_Load_Query
Response:

I'll go back to tweaking.

[afiumano]

I was getting that error as well on a dev site. Support found some 'caching' rules in my htaccess file that had to be removed. They said that they are already built into the framework and that was causing the issue.

[lesliekirk]

I was getting that error as well on a dev site. Support found some 'caching' rules in my htaccess file that had to be removed. They said that they are already built into the framework and that was causing the issue.

I would agree that it has to be something very specific to Colossus. I have never encountered this before. Support keeps telling me to clear my cache and data. Ummmm...nope.

[lesliekirk]

I would agree that it has to be something very specific to Colossus. I have never encountered this before. Support keeps telling me to clear my cache and data. Ummmm...nope.

I went a took a peek, the site has these rules in the htaccess file

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

  # Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
  BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
  Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule>

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 week"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
  ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/woff2 "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
  Header append Cache-Control "public"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

Could these be what caused your issue?

[afiumano]

Yes, below is what they removed from mine:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
# Enable expirations
ExpiresActive On
# Default directive
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
# My favicon
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
# Images
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
# CSS
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
# Javascript
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>