CMS rewrite bug? - Can anyone running 1.1 also do this test pls

[Roberto]

Hi all,

Can you please try the following with your 1.1 installation and tell me if you get the same results;

Making sure you have friendly URLs activated and .htaccess file in place, Click on ANY link in the information block (Delivery, Legal Notice, etc).

The CMS url has an ID number preceding the friendly url name eg. /2-legal-notice

Now for the weird bit, after clicking that link, go up to your browser's address bar and delete ANY of the address following the '2-' bit and hit enter. IT STILL WORKS RIGHT? Instead of a page not found error I'm reaching the same page with '2-lega', '2-legal-n' etc. '2' by itself doesn't work though, you need at least '2-'.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Roberto

[spott]

Yes - its true.
But I think the main reason and is this first number - when You have diffrent languages - its need to redirect right place. So I think its fature and not bug

[Roberto]

Hi Spott,

Thanks for checking that out, So it's a feature?

I've since noticed the same happens with categories if you call yourdomain.com/1- yourdomain.com/2- etc.

Surely it would be better to have the friendly urls without the id numbers and use language directories eg. domain.com/en/legal-notice or domain.com/fr/mentions-legales.

I'm concered that Google will spider an alternative spelling of the url and class this as duplicate content which will then get you put on google's black list and bring SEO rankings down.

[spott]

I don't know, it is feature or not
I told - that maybe it is feature, but maybe not.
Here is good reading about - how things are named as feature:
http://www.junauza.com/2008/12/christmas-tech-jokes-2008-edition.html

[Roberto]

haha, I hope it's not a case of the '12th bug of christmas'. Nice link

can a developer please confirm the status. Is this a bug of a feature, and if it is a feature, is there a chance of breaking google's duplicate content rule?

[Milhouse]

Actually, what's important for Prestashop it's only the ID, it's how the system manage to found what you want to display, it's not only a feature, it's THE way to do this. You can find a lot of website that use this system to achieve displaying content. As products and pages are stored in the database with an ID, the easiest way to find theses items is with their ID. So the only important thing in the URL is the ID.

This is surely a cause of duplicate content if you change the string after the id between links, or between updates.... Their is way to reduce duplicate content, it's beeing debated here (iin french, sorry) : http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/9484/discussion_generale/v1_dot_1_et_url_des_produits_avec_les_categories__desactivable__dot__dot__dot_/