We are looking into getting SEO checker on our site which is currently using Umbraco Cloud.
It seems we are getting an insane amount of error related to 'schedule tasks' and for some reason the field do not map on anything other than the title tag on our templates.
SEOChecker: SEOChecker: Error running scheduled task
Exception:
System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at SEOChecker.Core.Helpers.Request.ParseUrl(String url, Boolean allowRedirect, String method, Int32 timeOut)
at SEOChecker.HttpModules.ValidationqueueModule.TimerCallback(Object sender)
Additionally we are unable to do anything in within a local environment as we keep getting the following every time we save any content:
Server error: Contact administrator, see log for full details.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
The log showing the following:
2018-08-27 15:51:24,823 [P51244/D2/T8] ERROR SEOChecker.HttpModules.UrlModule - SEOChecker: SEOChecker: Error in HttpModule for url rewriting
Finally, as mentioned earlier, we are unable to get the SEO check fields to map to existing fields. It does not seem to recognised anything other than the 'title' tag in our template.
Apologies if I fired a lot of issues in one post, but any help or pointers as to how to get this plugin working smoothly would be much appreciated.
I also have a hotfix for the null error issues. Seems that Umbraco Context is gone in some situations. This release will be offcial out next week but if you want a fix now you can download from https://www.dropbox.com/s/177cuss83qc58cz/seo-checker21_0.zip?dl=0
Oh sorry, the 401 issue is a different one. You need to either whitelist the IP address on Umbraco cloud or additionally you can set the following web.config settings. membername and passwords requires credentials where you normally can login on cloud environment.
Add the following info to the appSettings section of your web.config
The handler is already in the web config and your download link isn't working unfortunately.
The 401 issue seems to have resolved itself... I don't believe I have done anything different... but this has now caused the SEO Scheduler to run every few seconds even though nothing is really happening. Is that normal behaviour?
Anyway, I have cloned a fresh repository and tried again from scratch in order to avoid any similar issue going forward.
...still getting issues which are preventing us to use any of the features. Issues are as follow:
SEO Checker keep telling me there is no Meta Description tag in my template, or keyword meta tag. It only seems to map to the title> tag but nothing else. I have tried on a new clean site using basic templates with no success.
The redirect manager seems to create a new redirect duplication every time I save the page in the backoffice (although a new redirect entry appears on the redirect data type, I do not believe more redirects are actually created)
Robots do not seem to map on anything or even affect the page at present.
Due to those issues we aren't able to use any of the SEO Checker functionality. Is this compatible with the cloud version of Umbraco?
For info, I am on Umbraco 7.10.4 (Cloud) currently working in Localhost (avoiding any work on any other environment for now to avoid any issue.)
Hi With SEO Checker you can use the follwoing snipet to render all meta tags
@{
var meta = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<SEOChecker.MVC.MetaData>("seoChecker");
}
@meta.AllTags
When pagename changes in the backoffice it will create redirects indeed, With the Version coming out later today it is possible to disable this.
It is needed indeed that the scheduler is hit everyu x seconds this checks the validation queue
Don't know what you meanu with the robots issue But if you use the snippet above it will use the robots settings on the configured document type and you can use the robots data type to override this for a single page.
Nearly there as the only issue that now remains is the redirect. No matter if there is a change on the page (page name or any field for that matter) a new redirect is created...
As an example here is my homepage redirects:
I then hit SAVE and the following appears...
Every Time I save, a new redirect appears... Is there any way to sort that?
Finally, one more question, the canonical URL setting via the SEO checker tab requires to enter a URL, can this be changed to a content tree picker where we select the page without having to type a URL? (this is more of a convenience thing rather than an issue, we can live with this as it is if it isn't a change that can be done)
This is fixed in the release this afternoon, I am pretty sure redirects are also not created anymore with that release since it checks for empty values now
Are the username and password the credentials to login to the Umbraco Cloud environment?
I keep getting...
2018-09-04 09:27:45,285 [P5960/D4/T14] INFO Umbraco.Core.Security.UmbracoMembershipProviderBase - Login attempt failed for username XXX from IP address XXX, the user does not exist
I add the credentials config lines as you mentioned (using my umbraco cloud login details) and no matter what I get the following on the dev environment:
2018-09-04 09:39:13,313 [P4236/D4/T16] ERROR SEOChecker.HttpModules.ValidationqueueModule - SEOChecker: SEOChecker: SEOChecker Scheduled task Handler https://xxx/seocheckerscheduler.txt not configured, see manual
System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at SEOChecker.Core.Helpers.Request.ParseUrl(String url, Boolean allowRedirect, String method, Int32 timeOut)
at SEOChecker.HttpModules.ValidationqueueModule.TimerCallback(Object sender)
2018-09-04 09:39:13,440 [P4236/D4/T17] INFO umbraco.BusinessLogic.Log - Log scrubbed. Removed all items older than 2018-09-03 09:39:13
2018-09-04 09:39:13,442 [P4236/D4/T16] INFO Umbraco.Core.Sync.ApplicationUrlHelper - New ApplicationUrl detected: xxx
2018-09-04 09:39:13,442 [P4236/D4/T16] INFO Umbraco.Core.Sync.ApplicationUrlHelper - ApplicationUrl: xxx (UmbracoModule request)
2018-09-04 09:39:31,506 [P4236/D4/T11] INFO Umbraco.Core.Security.UmbracoMembershipProviderBase - Login attempt failed for username XXXX from IP address XXXX, the user does not exist
2018-09-04 09:39:31,507 [P4236/D4/T11] ERROR SEOChecker.Core.Helpers.Request - SEOChecker: SEOChecker: Could not Authenticate the configured member for url xxx
SEOChecker.Core.Exceptions.MemberAuthenticationException: Error validating member, check app settings
at SEOChecker.Core.Extensions.HttpWebRequestExtensions.AddAuthenticationCookie(HttpWebRequest request, String url)
at SEOChecker.Core.Helpers.Request.GetStream(String url, HttpCookieCollection cookies, String userAgent)
2018-09-04 09:39:31,507 [P4236/D4/T11] ERROR SEOChecker.Core.Validation.DocumentValidator - SEOChecker: SEOChecker: Error when validation document
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: stream
at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(Stream stream, Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean leaveOpen)
at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(Stream stream, Encoding encoding)
at SEOChecker.Core.Validation.DocumentValidator.Validate(Int32 documentId, IContextInfo context)
...which obviously still bring me the error as follow in the back office when validating:
Either I am doing something wrong (most likely!) or something isn't quite right here...
Could be both :-( Think the server can't create the request anymore and that's a whitleist thing, maybe IP is changed again? . And Indeed the scheduler needs some improvmenent as well since that isn't using the authenticated request I am affraid
Just rechecked and the IP is correct and white listed.
Anything else you could suggest?
Is it possible to disable the validation altogether and the scheduler so there are no errors popping up anymore? (at a config level)
I mean the validation is nice in the back office but we are using other tools to do it anyway, and I guess no validation would mean to need to have any validation queue.
As far as I can see, everything is working fine for now! Thank a lot.
I have one more question, is there any way to output meta tags individually (not using meta.allTags) in the templates?
I believe the SEO Checker doc shows how to output some fields, but not all of them such as the Social tags.. (appId, and so on) and I don't know the aliases for those in order to call them in the template.
SEO Checker on Cloud - Schedule errors and local environment not working
Hi there,
We are looking into getting SEO checker on our site which is currently using Umbraco Cloud.
It seems we are getting an insane amount of error related to 'schedule tasks' and for some reason the field do not map on anything other than the title tag on our templates.
Additionally we are unable to do anything in within a local environment as we keep getting the following every time we save any content:
The log showing the following:
Finally, as mentioned earlier, we are unable to get the SEO check fields to map to existing fields. It does not seem to recognised anything other than the 'title' tag in our template.
Apologies if I fired a lot of issues in one post, but any help or pointers as to how to get this plugin working smoothly would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Hi,
Make sure you have the following handler configured in web.config. Strange that the installer didn't do this.
I also have a hotfix for the null error issues. Seems that Umbraco Context is gone in some situations. This release will be offcial out next week but if you want a fix now you can download from https://www.dropbox.com/s/177cuss83qc58cz/seo-checker21_0.zip?dl=0
Hope this helps,
Richard
Oh sorry, the 401 issue is a different one. You need to either whitelist the IP address on Umbraco cloud or additionally you can set the following web.config settings. membername and passwords requires credentials where you normally can login on cloud environment.
Add the following info to the appSettings section of your web.config
Hi Richard,
Thanks for the reply,
The handler is already in the web config and your download link isn't working unfortunately.
The 401 issue seems to have resolved itself... I don't believe I have done anything different... but this has now caused the SEO Scheduler to run every few seconds even though nothing is really happening. Is that normal behaviour?
Anyway, I have cloned a fresh repository and tried again from scratch in order to avoid any similar issue going forward.
...still getting issues which are preventing us to use any of the features. Issues are as follow:
SEO Checker keep telling me there is no Meta Description tag in my template, or keyword meta tag. It only seems to map to the title> tag but nothing else. I have tried on a new clean site using basic templates with no success.
The redirect manager seems to create a new redirect duplication every time I save the page in the backoffice (although a new redirect entry appears on the redirect data type, I do not believe more redirects are actually created)
Robots do not seem to map on anything or even affect the page at present.
Due to those issues we aren't able to use any of the SEO Checker functionality. Is this compatible with the cloud version of Umbraco?
For info, I am on Umbraco 7.10.4 (Cloud) currently working in Localhost (avoiding any work on any other environment for now to avoid any issue.)
Any help is much appreciated.
Hi With SEO Checker you can use the follwoing snipet to render all meta tags
When pagename changes in the backoffice it will create redirects indeed, With the Version coming out later today it is possible to disable this.
It is needed indeed that the scheduler is hit everyu x seconds this checks the validation queue
Don't know what you meanu with the robots issue But if you use the snippet above it will use the robots settings on the configured document type and you can use the robots data type to override this for a single page.
Best,
Richard
Thanks Richard, that helped a lot!
Nearly there as the only issue that now remains is the redirect. No matter if there is a change on the page (page name or any field for that matter) a new redirect is created...
As an example here is my homepage redirects:
I then hit SAVE and the following appears...
Every Time I save, a new redirect appears... Is there any way to sort that?
Finally, one more question, the canonical URL setting via the SEO checker tab requires to enter a URL, can this be changed to a content tree picker where we select the page without having to type a URL? (this is more of a convenience thing rather than an issue, we can live with this as it is if it isn't a change that can be done)
Can you send me a copy of the entry in the SEOChecker_PageNotFound database table?
Richard,
Here is the entry in the table:
There are a couple more entries for the blank redirect as well (with the same content ID)
EDIT: After checking the full table, it seems there are ~10 instances of each redirect in the table.
Just throwing this out there at the same time as the DEV environment now throws the following issue:
Log file reads as follow:
This is fixed in the release this afternoon, I am pretty sure redirects are also not created anymore with that release since it checks for empty values now
Oh and canonical domain is just the domain. not a picker It will make sure all urls get a canonical domain with the correct url.
Ok, that's fine then :) We can live with that.
Richard,
Updated to 2.1 and disabled URL tracking. Duplicate redirect no longer show!
I only really now have a single issue.. which I am hoping is a simple one...
Everything seems to work in local (funny as originally nothing was working in local!)... but not on Dev where the following occurs...
I white listed my IP as you originally requested but the 401 issue is back in addition to another problem...
Log file reads as follow... :
Hi,
Think Ip address changed. The following should also work
For authenticated requests there is an option in SEOChecker
Add the following info to the appSettings section of your web.config
When SEOCheckerConnectAsUmbracoMember is true it will be using the name and password to login to the site.
Hope this helps,
Richard
Thanks,
Are the username and password the credentials to login to the Umbraco Cloud environment?
I keep getting...
yes that worked before...
Doesnt seem to work.
Everything works in localhost.
I add the credentials config lines as you mentioned (using my umbraco cloud login details) and no matter what I get the following on the dev environment:
...which obviously still bring me the error as follow in the back office when validating:
Either I am doing something wrong (most likely!) or something isn't quite right here...
Could be both :-( Think the server can't create the request anymore and that's a whitleist thing, maybe IP is changed again? . And Indeed the scheduler needs some improvmenent as well since that isn't using the authenticated request I am affraid
Just rechecked and the IP is correct and white listed.
Anything else you could suggest?
Is it possible to disable the validation altogether and the scheduler so there are no errors popping up anymore? (at a config level)
I mean the validation is nice in the back office but we are using other tools to do it anyway, and I guess no validation would mean to need to have any validation queue.
Yeah just remove the scheduler from web.config
Richard,
As far as I can see, everything is working fine for now! Thank a lot.
I have one more question, is there any way to output meta tags individually (not using meta.allTags) in the templates?
I believe the SEO Checker doc shows how to output some fields, but not all of them such as the Social tags.. (appId, and so on) and I don't know the aliases for those in order to call them in the template.
Cool, I ll go with that for now.
Thanks a lot for the help :)
You can use
meta.SocialTags for the social tags. currently it's rendering al;l tags at once.
Best,
Richard
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