Need some ideas because I am stumped!

[ids]

Working on an older developed dev site. MMUI, PowerSearch, Optimizer and running into an issue I can't explain. The enigma: enter a standard, direct URL of a product (page) in the browser's address bar and the landing page is a completely different product from the catalog.

Some details:
-- basic and fairly stripped htaccess
-- maint and packed Data Management
-- PowerSearch and Optimizer have been rebuilt (Doubtful it's a factor, happens with either being enabled/disabled)
-- Legacy SEO

The development effort is to make some significant changes to page templates. There are no changes to the catalog. Simply the templates and some CSS are changed. I am thinking there will be a small risk this issue will manifest on the live site. I'd have more confidence if I could explain it.

Any ideas for troubleshooting or fixing or are there any older modules that might do some UI Exception or URL redirection that I should look for in the store?

Thanks,

Scott

[Kent Multer]

If it's an MMUI store, I'm pretty sure it can't use URI Management. If any URI Mgmt. settings are turned on, that might cause problems. I would check all the URI- and SEO-related settings.

If this is a copy of the live store running on a dev domain name, it may have hard-coded links that are pointing back to the live store.

I would also look at every module that has the system-ex or log API features; those could fiddle with the product selection before the page is rendered.

Hope one of those is helpful ...

[ids]

Thanks, Kent.

Your 3rd might be the only item I need to check for.

Store isn't using URI management. An Aside for a different thread, I have another MMUI conversion project that is using URI Management. But, I haven't checked the link vars in the templates yet. I had thought you could not use URIM in MMUI also. For another thread, maybe Miva can confirm that you can or cannot.

The store template did indeed have hard-coded links (with www.) I have poured through the templates and fixed all (or most).

I also don't see any HTTP header redirects anywhere in the store in case there was something strange there.

Scott

[William Davis]

Is there any possibility of some type of "sandbox" conditional being used?

[alphabet]

Maybe look at the NTFD page.

We use to hide a location redirect using the miva_output_header in the head section.

[ids]

Thanks for these ideas. I will look.

Scott

[nottheusual1]

enter a standard, direct URL of a product (page) in the browser's address bar

Share one (to see the structure)? And do you have any of Bill's modules floating around in there?

[ids]

Not as many as i might have thought, but Yes, Power Search, Toolkit and Volume Pricing.

Site is pwd protected:

https://dev.myclientsdomain.com/mm5/...Code=ctgy_code

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

AFAIK, you can use URI on an MMUI site... you just need to replace all the link references from whatever they where in mmui (forgot :) ), to the URI Management ones. (That being said, that's a fairly big task.)

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

possible debug test:

Take the product code of a sample link, say ?Product_code=fooness, and then run that code through:

<mvt:do name="l.return" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Runtime_Product_Load_Code( 'product_code', l.product )" />

then, take that id and run

<mvt:do name="l.return" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Runtime_Product_Load_ID( product_id, l.product )" />

Do they agree?

Odd I know, just wonder if something is corrupt in the product table. Oh, have you tried rebuilding the indexes?

[ids]

I have compared the dev product tables and live site tables and appear to be identical - minus additions, etc in the live site.

That still could be a valid test to see if the product ID pulled and then requested are different.

[lesliekirk]

Scott, I went back and reread your original question - yes there are a couple of other modules that handle link structure and rewrites. Take a look at the modules installed, I can't recall off the top of my head the names of them one of them might be Bill's. A couple of other developers had modules for this too.

[nottheusual1]

Is Tool Kit's TKSL function in use? I can remember some "perfect storm" situations when it would cause unintended results.

[lesliekirk]

Sebenza had the Ultimate SEO Links module too.