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Gmail is down … again

google mail down

How sad

Tried to open every couple minutes and the only thing i get is 502 server error

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1and1 hosting fun

Had a bit of fun trying to work it out why any page any link on my website suddenly had stopped working. Doesn’t matter where I click, doesn’t matter what I’m putting into address field in my browser – it shows content of the home page. Website wasn’t broken(always a good thing), Apache error log empty. No changes in last couple of weeks. Weird!

After spending a couple beer pints of time, I’ve found that people at 1and1 have changed something on their side without letting me know…

To be able to have URLs I want… Ok, not that I care about URL’s much, to make search engines happy mostly I’m using this trick for custom URL’s with Zend Framework And the reason why it stopped working is that 1and1 is not giving you $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] any more it just doesn’t exists any more. Had to use other members of $_SERVER

Great

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ZenCart and Ultimate SEO URL’s

If you are reading this you’ve probably seen this message:

Incorrect integer value: ” for column ‘configuration_group_id’ at row 1 in:
[INSERT INTO `configuration_group` VALUES ('', 'SEO URLs', 'Options for Ultimate SEO URLs by Chemo', '39', '1')]

I had this problem myself. And now I can tell you that there are at least three ways to solve this annoying problem.

Solution 1
pay some money to a to someone for fixing this and go to the pub (if you still have some money left).

Solution 2
buy a SEO module that works and go to the pub (if you still have some money left).

Solution 3

• open includes/classes/seo.install.php with your favourite editor.
• find function install_settings()
• Change line $insert_group = “INSERT INTO `”.TABLE_CONFIGURATION_GROUP.”` VALUES (”, ‘SEO URLs’, ‘Options for Ultimate SEO URLs by Chemo’, ‘”.$next_sort.”‘, ‘1′)”; to “INSERT INTO `”.TABLE_CONFIGURATION_GROUP.”` VALUES (‘”.$next_sort.”‘, ‘SEO URLs’, ‘Options for Ultimate SEO URLs by Chemo’, ‘”.$next_sort.”‘, ‘1′)”;
• save the file
• open your Zen Cart again

It should work now. If it does, go to the pub.
If it’s not(very likely) and if you are still getting “Incorrect integer value” errors, find a function SEO_URL_INSTALLER right at the top of the file and change all lines that have something like this: “INSERT INTO `”.TABLE_CONFIGURATION.”` VALUES (”, to something like this: “INSERT INTO `”.TABLE_CONFIGURATION.”` VALUES (LAST_INSERT_ID()+”.$x.”,

It should work now. If it does, go to the pub(you’ve saved some money today). If not, write a comment with as much detail as possible and come back later – you might find my reply on how to fix it

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