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  • Matt Taylor 873 posts 2086 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 17:22
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    Problem with uCommerce Store package?

    I'm just getting started with uCommerce so wanted to play about and get familiar with it.

    I've downloaded Umbraco 4.7 and both 1.5 packages from http://www.ucommerce.dk/en/get-it-now/download.aspx and I've followed the instructions in the http://www.ucommerce.dk/screencasts/uCommerceTV-01-Installing-uCommerce.mov video.

    I'm working on localhost (which I have entered for the hostnames) and http://localhost/shop.aspx loads up fine but when I click the uCommerce link as shown in the video I get 'page not found' and the URL for the link is http://localhost/ucommerce/c-23 not a link to the catalog as shown in the video?

    Something I've done wrong or does the package have a glitch?

    Regards,

    Matt

  • Søren Spelling Lund 1797 posts 2786 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 19:02
    Søren Spelling Lund
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    Could you take a look in the umbracoLog table and see if uCommerce is reporting any errors?

    One thing to try is to remove the hostname on the store and just leave on "Default".

  • Matt Taylor 873 posts 2086 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 19:41
    Matt Taylor
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    I tried again from scratch as previously I had installed one of the example sites that comes with the installation and I figured perhaps it was causing trouble but the result is the same even with a blank site.

    Although I did search for a similar post before posting this one and found nothing I have come accross this post.
    It appears to be a similar problem with the c-23 link not working. The difference is that I'm sure my permissions are OK and Umbraco has installed correctly without error.

    The UrlRewriting.config changes are in place.

    The umbracoLog table is reporting a couple of errors relating to 'uCommerce.DbInstaller.GetSchemaVersion(). uCommerce_SystemVersion does not exist. This indicates an empty database.' which I guess is fine as the site is a clean install.

    There are also multiple entries of this error:
    'Couldn't import property 'Content' as the property type doesn't exist on this document type'
    which the other poster also reported.

    I have removed the hostname but with no effect.

    Any more ideas?

    Thanks, Matt

     

  • Søren Spelling Lund 1797 posts 2786 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 20:22
    Søren Spelling Lund
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    Is there a way I can see the site?

  • Matt Taylor 873 posts 2086 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 20:33
    Matt Taylor
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    Hi Soren,

    Well it's only on my local PC, I could share my desktop with you using MSN messanger if that's any good?

    Or zip it up and send it to you?

  • Søren Spelling Lund 1797 posts 2786 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 21:45
    Søren Spelling Lund
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    If you could zip it up and send it my way I'll take a look at it for you.

  • Matt Taylor 873 posts 2086 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 22:01
    Matt Taylor
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    Thanks Soren,

    It's on its way to you now.

    Regards,

    Matt

  • Søren Spelling Lund 1797 posts 2786 karma points
    May 12, 2011 @ 22:20
    Søren Spelling Lund
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    Thanks a bunch.

  • Søren Spelling Lund 1797 posts 2786 karma points
    May 13, 2011 @ 10:11
    Søren Spelling Lund
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    Further digging revealed that it was an IIS6 issue with extensionless URLs. Some configuration is required to make it work.

    IIS6 doesn't support extensionless URLs without a workaround. Here's an article that describes what's needed http://chicken-feed.info/iis6-tips-and-tricks-extensionless-urls.aspx
    uCommerce works fine without the rewrite by the way, but you will have to remove the calls to GetNiceUrlForX in the site to avoid it.

  • Matt Taylor 873 posts 2086 karma points
    May 13, 2011 @ 13:49
    Matt Taylor
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    Thanks for looking into this for me Soren. Great help.

    I've set the website up as a Visual Studio 2010 project and it works fine through its Cassini web engine.
    I'll probably use that until I can upgrade my machine to Windows 7 from XP pro.

    The urls do look a little unfriendly http://localhost:9662/ucommerce/software/ucommerce-1.0-rtm/c-23/c-67/p-97 which I can live with.
    Are they supposed to look like that?

    Regards,

    Matt

  • Søren Spelling Lund 1797 posts 2786 karma points
    May 13, 2011 @ 14:29
    Søren Spelling Lund
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    The payload at the end is there to enable easy keyword stuffing of the URL. uCommerce will look for that pattern and use the information there to locate the proper catalog, category, and product. What this means is that you can basically put anything between the domain name and the payload, e.g. localhost/super-google-optimized-keywords/c-23/c-67/p-97

    Pretty URLs are really just there for the benefit of Google. Customers don't really see the URL any way or the other.

    That said the URLs are completely customizable so you can implement any URL scheme you like. Nice URLs Optimize Webshop Google Page Rank tell you how to customize it.

  • Matt Taylor 873 posts 2086 karma points
    May 13, 2011 @ 14:34
    Matt Taylor
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    Cool.

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