This is a post regarding 301 Redirects with OpenCart and OpenCart 1.5 / 1.5.1

Are you having a problem with your OpenCart SEO? Are you trying to add 301 Redirects?

Are you getting ?_route_= added to the end of your redirects and Error Not Found Message?

There is one fix, that will work, it does however still change the target URL, you have to add an ?, yes a question mark!

Here’s an example of what you’d use for a 301 Redirect in OpenCarts .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url?
or
Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url/?

I hope this helped you guys out!

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Recently been faced with an issue in OpenCart 1.5.0.5 which seems to affect these versions:
Opencart Version 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5

The Error is a Javascript Error, if you don’t use something like FireBug then you will likely not notice the error.

The Erros is this though:
addModule is not defined

The problem this error will cause for certain will be that you cannot make / add new banners to your opencart store, this will affect anything and everything where you have hyphen’s and other special characters – for this reason – remove hyphen’s and special characters from your product options, categories and banner names and so on.

I’ve posted this on the BUG on the OpenCart 1.5.0.5 Bug Thread

“An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.” is a common issue, when searching for a plugin or even installing a plugin, this is how you fix it!

1. Login to your FTP server
2. Go to wp-includes and edit class-http.php
3. Find: ‘timeout’ => apply_filters( ‘http_request_timeout’, 5),
4. Change the value “5” to “30”, the value is actually is the number of seconds before the server times out.
5. It should be this: ‘timeout’ => apply_filters( ‘http_request_timeout’, 30),

And that’s it! Your An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request. error should no go away!

This error is usually caused by high load on the WordPress servers or when they’re having technical difficulties.

Have you had problems loading Adobe Photoshop CS4?

Opens the loading screen and then just crashes?

Maybe you’ve installed a bad brush or pattern or fx?

The quickest and easiest way to get yourself back up and running again with Photoshop is by resetting the Settings File.

For PC Users Simply hold down CTRL+SHIFT+ALT and whilst holding down open Photoshop.

For Evil Mac Users Simply hold down SHIFT+COMMAND+OPTION and whilst holding these down open Photoshop.

Photoshop will then ask you if you’d like to delete your Settings file, obviously click yes!

Job done! Remember reinstalling/repairing photoshop will NOT clear your settings file so try this first

Having this annoying little issue with Dreamweaver?

The following translators were not loaded due to errors: Server Model SSI.htm: has configuration information that is invalid.

The fix is really simple, theres a WinFileCache in the App Data Folder that you simply need to rename or delete.

The patch for windows vista to this file is generally:
C:\Users\YOURUSR\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\en_US\Configuration

Enjoy!