[ic] problems with canonical

[Gert van der Spoel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org [mailto:interchange-users-
> bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bronson
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 16:38
> To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> Subject: Re: [ic] problems with canonical
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org
> > [mailto:interchange-users- bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of Steve
> > Bronson
> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 16:19
> > To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> > Subject: Re: [ic] problems with canonical
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org
> > > [mailto:interchange-users- bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of
> > > Steve Bronson
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 00:17
> > > To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> > > Subject: [ic] problems with canonical
> > >
> > > I'm having issues getting canonical to work on my website. Seems to
> > > be redirecting to fly pages rather than to the product page.
> > >
> > > example: my page url:
> > > https://www.airdelights.com/zerk-cp--Zurn-EZ-Flush-
> > > Retro-Fit-Automatic-Flush-Unit.html
> > >
> > > shows this when you look at view source.
> > >
> > > <link rel="canonical"
> > > href="https://www.airdelights.com/fly/fly_autoflushers2.html">
> > >
> > > Any suggestions on how I can fix this?
> >
> > Looking at the source, but don't see the canonical.
> > You removed it/solved it?
> > Which version of Interchange are you using?
> >
> > CU,
> >
> > Gert
> >
> > ************************
> > I just put the [scratch canonical] back on the top template.
> > You can see this problem now.
> > Using interchange 5.10.0
> >
> > Steve B.
> 
> I'm having a look at the git repo of interchange, but I seem to not be able to
> find any place where the scratch canonical value is being set ... Is this
> something custom to your Interchange install? Could be that I'm looking in the
> wrong place, but a scratch variable is usually not existing by itself. I see one
> location where canonical is being set (in strap/results.html), but that does not
> seem to match your code.
> 
> CU,
> 
> Gert
> **************************
> I believe Josh from Endpoint added this to our site. He is no longer at endpoint.
> Top template has [scratch canonical]
> All the pages and flypages have this code:
> 
> [tmp canonical]<link rel="canonical"
> href="__SAMPLEURL__/@@MV_PAGE@@[if scratch
> mv_add_dot_html].html[/if]">[/tmp]
> 
> Have no idea how this works, where it's pulling data from, or why it's showing
> flypage instead of product page.  Maybe from catalog.cfg?
> 
> Steve B.

Your product page is not a static page on your filesystem I assume, but is a page built from a flypage?
https://www.airdelights.com/Xlerator-XL-BW-Hand-Dryers--XL-BW-Xlerator-Automatic-Hand-Dryer-in-White.html for example shows

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.airdelights.com/fly/handDryers_fly.html">

http://docs.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/online/vars/MV_PAGE.html  describes that MV_PAGE gives the current page being served, which is in these cases a flypage .. That the content of it is dynamically filled because of the product that has been selected, still makes it a fly page.


https://www.airdelights.com/cat/manual_faucets.html has 
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.airdelights.com/manual_faucets/manual_faucets_category.html">

Etc .. .

So for your flypage you'd have to replace '@@MV_PAGE@@[if scratch
> mv_add_dot_html].html[/if]">' with the current url .. maybe a sku or something more SEO-like ... I guess that also depends on your install (I'm not completely into the minute details of all available tags to get this done) .. 

CU,

Gert