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    Posted: 25-February-2011 at 6:39pm
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I am running the new V4.1sp1 apparel add-on and have the Keyword Rich URL setting turned on so the user-friendly URLs are displayed. The other day I was on my google webmaster tools and noticed under Crawl Errors, that all my product pages are showing an 404 error.  Has anyone else looked at this on their google account?  It has me concerned, but I don't know if it is a problem or not and whether I should be turning off this feature and recreating my sitemap.xml file and my storemap.asp file with the normal query strings.

Anyone know about this and/or is there something I am doing wrong.

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Hey Curt. Could you post a couple of the crawl errors here so I can have a better idea of exactly what's happening? There are many things which can lead to a 404 error.
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Here is a whole file full of them.
Each one is product page, and if you paste the link into your browser, you get 404 error.  However, you go through the category links through the website, like a user would go, these very same links work fine.


uploads/667/Web_crawl_errors.txt
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The issue appears to be related to case sensitivity.

http://www.avalanche-ranch.com/rusticlighting/PC/Avalanche-Table-Lamp-Bear-304p35080.htm

http://www.avalanche-ranch.com/rusticlighting/pc/Avalanche-Table-Lamp-Bear-304p35080.htm

The second one works and it has a lower-case PC, while the first and broken one has an upper-case PC. It's hard to be sure what would be causing this without checking out your 404.asp and related files like pcSeoLinks.asp
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So, if you just want it to *work* and for those links to forward, you can probably add this to your 404.asp at line 39: 

if instr(strQ,"/PC/")>0 then

     strQ = replace(strQ,"/PC/","/pc/")

end if


What that should do is replace any /PC/ with /pc/ before the rest of the redirect is executed. What you might then end up with, however, is duplicate links. Here's a modified version of 404.asp with the change already made:
404.zip


*edit*

Please post your pcadmin/exportFroogle.asp file here. I bet you'll find something around like 568 which is making it generate those upper-case PC links: 


'// SEO Links

                              '// Build Product Link

                              if scSeoURLs<>1 then

                                   strProductURL=SPathInfo & "pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=" & intIdProduct & "&idcategory=" & tmpIDCategory

                              else

                                   strProductURL=SPathInfo & "pc/" & removeChars(strProductName1) & "-" & tmpIDCategory & "p" & intIdProduct & ".htm"

                              end if

                              '//


That's how mine looks, and you can see that they're lower case. This is probably the issue, and it would probably be better to edit that file and fix the feed you're submitting to google rather than duplicate the links by accepting both upper and lower case.

Edited by Brett - 25-February-2011 at 8:48pm
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Hi, case sensitivity usually = Linux hosting. Is this on a cloud based server? Some run virtual Windows on top of Linux from what I understand.
Editing ProductCart Code?

See WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code
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What I want to know is how the feed was generated with an upper-case PC folder in the first place. According to the code on my site, it should always be generated with a lower-case PC. Maybe he has an old or modified version of the file.
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Hello
I have looked at the sitemap.xml file and at my storemap.asp file and the storemap.html file I have on the site none of these files have a capitalized PC.  Do you really think that makes a difference?  This is on a semi-dedicated PC windows based computer.  It is at Tango Hosting.  I have asked them to comment on this as well, they say ProductCart developer problem.


Edited by avalight - 25-February-2011 at 11:07pm
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Originally posted by Brett Brett wrote:

What I want to know is how the feed was generated with an upper-case PC folder in the first place. According to the code on my site, it should always be generated with a lower-case PC. Maybe he has an old or modified version of the file.


Brett - what is the name of the file are you referring to here? 
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Sorry, I had the wrong file - that was the google shopping feed page. Go to genGoogleSiteMapA.asp and find around line 40: 

     if Right(SPathInfo,1)="/" then

          SPathInfo=SPathInfo & "pc/"          

     else

          SPathInfo=SPathInfo & "/pc/"

     end if


It should be in lower-case, but if yours is in upper-case that might be the cause of your problem.
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