Allow Dots, Slashes and Spaces in Miva Part Numbers

[Ron Frigon]

I'm now wondering if I should take a peek at the current htaccess file. Could they have been inserted via that way?

If they're not using URI Management it must be done in .htaccess. In this case you can import the old URL, including the + sign instead of spaces, into URI and be good to go. You're not redirecting the product code, you're redirecting whatever the actual url is.

[lesliekirk]

If they're not using URI Management it must be done in .htaccess. In this case you can import the old URL, including the + sign instead of spaces, into URI and be good to go. You're not redirecting the product code, you're redirecting whatever the actual url is.

I guess that's where I am confused. If I try to manually add the old URL with the plus sign I can't. So you are saying I can force the system by doing an import?

Also, the bigger problem, the products do need to be redirected to other product codes. The store owner is creating new product codes (hopefully without the spaces) that these old ones need to be redirected to.

[Ron Frigon]

If I try to manually add the old URL with the plus sign I can't.

Might need someone from Miva to chime in on that. I can add this URI with no problem.

/some+old+product+code.html

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[lesliekirk]

Might need someone from Miva to chime in on that. I can add this URI with no problem.

/some+old+product+code.html

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My bad, I was trying to do it with the spaces, not the plus signs. It working with the plus signs would make perfect sense with what Miva Support just told me:

The Miva Merchant software appears to be using + instead of %20 to replace the spaces by default

[lesliekirk]

lesliekirk your situation sounds a bit different as you are not using URI management already. Your best bet would be to upload a spreadsheet of the old URLs (current structure) to create 301 redirects in URI Management after you generate the new URLs you want (you could also keep the same URL structure you have today by doing this same things but upload them as canonical URLs) As long as you don't have parameters in the URLs this will work great.

I'd like to circle back on this now that I know it's Miva Merchant adding the plus signs into the spaces into the links.

I'd like to turn the URI Management on but I'm not sure what it's going to do when I ask it to generate the URI's. Will it insert the plus signs?

[Brennan]

URI Management replaces all spaces with dahses and uses the product name (not the code by default)

[lesliekirk]

URI Management replaces all spaces with dahses and uses the product name (not the code by default)

Yes, I understand by default. But this site would be using the product code, not the product name. What happens then? Still adds dashes? Or will it product the links with the plus like Miva Merchant is currently doing?

[lesliekirk]

I have a boat load of questions and maybe this topic should not be a "Dream Feature" request since it's already doable (although not advisable). I just started testing on my dev site and got a result other than what I expected.

Brennan do you think this topic should be moved? Or should I start over with a new post?