Magento Enterprise – How to Exclude Parent Category Path from Subcategory URLs

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I was using Magento 1.12.0.2 and recently upgraded to Magento 1.13.1.0.

My Site urls were www.abc.com/category/, www.abc.com/subcategory/ , www.abc.com/product.html
After upgrade the urls for products are working fine but category urls are adding . automatically before the "/" , so as per the new URL structure i remove the suffix / from the magento admin configuration and its working fine now .
I also run the URL migration script but i still get he sub category url with parent category url included in URL like www.abc.com/category/subcategory

I check with core_url_rewrite table where the request_path is showing correct for all subcategory URLs where as in the newer version enterprise_url_reqrite ,subcategory urls are showing the request path as categoty/subcategory.

Is there any settings or code changes that can help me to fix the subcategory URLs that include only subcategory path and not include parent category path ? I also need "/" at the end to match my current URL structure. When i add "/" as a category url suffix in admin ,Magento 1.13.1.0 add "./" as a suffix for all category urls which leads to 404 page.

Thanks

Best Answer

In 1.13 there is an option to use categories path for product urls but there is no option to remove categories paths from category urls

So, i've created a simple module to workaround this.

https://github.com/alitopaloglu/ExcParentCatPathFromSubCatUrls

ATTENTION - DEVELOPED FOR ONLY MAGENTO ENTERPRISE EDITION v1.13

This module adds a yes/no option labelled as "Use Parent Category Path for Category URLs" on

Magento Admin Panel -> System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Seo Options

to remove parent category path from url and change it from www.domain.com/cat1/cat2 to www.domain.com/cat2

USAGE :

Go to the Magento Admin Panel -> System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Seo Options Select yes or no from "Use Parent Category Path for Category URLs" Refresh category url index Option YES => www.domain.com/cat1/cat2

Option NO => www.domain.com/cat2

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Magento – Positioning in anchored categories with subcategories

Building on what I explained here I think the best solution to achieve what you need is to rewrite the method Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Category_Indexer_Product::_refreshAnchorRelations and add your own logic.
I mean, instead of the default algorithm for determining the position:

$position = 'MIN('.
        $adapter->getCheckSql(
            'cp.category_id = ce.entity_id',
            'cp.position',
            '(cc.position + 1) * ('.$adapter->quoteIdentifier('cc.level').' + 1) * 10000 + cp.position'
        )
    .')';

try to use something like this:

$position = 'MIN('.
        $adapter->getCheckSql(
            'cp.category_id = ce.entity_id',
            'cp.position',
            'cp.position'//just the product position here instead of the full expression
        )
    .')';

Not sure if the code above works, I didn't test it. I just wanted to emphasize the idea.
After the modifications, rebuild your indexes.

Magento – Magento Google sitemap Generation

To address one of your initial comments:

"I have set Product URL Suffix(html) and Category URL Suffix(html) in the configuration.

This suffix are not showing in sitemap.xml."

We noticed this bug introduced in EE 1.13. We requested a patch and received the following. I don't believe this is EE specific so hopefully it helps a bit. Also, just upgraded a EE 1.12 site to 1.14 and noticed all the .html extension were dropped from sitemap.xml as well. Yes, having .html is old school and really not of any seo value these days but this bug can really suck if it goes unnoticed.

Warning ... I did not look at the referenced file in community. Use this as a guide, do not try to apply the patch blindly to your community store. Or if you do, at least test it very thoroughly before going live.

__PATCHFILE_FOLLOWS__
diff --git app/code/core/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Sitemap.php app/code/core/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Sitemap.php
index 2213a4f..734bb91 100644
--- app/code/core/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Sitemap.php
+++ app/code/core/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Sitemap.php
@@ -151,11 +151,13 @@ class Mage_Sitemap_Model_Sitemap extends Mage_Core_Model_Abstract
          */
         $changefreq = (string)Mage::getStoreConfig('sitemap/category/changefreq', $storeId);
         $priority   = (string)Mage::getStoreConfig('sitemap/category/priority', $storeId);
+        $urlSuffix  = Mage::helper('catalog/category')->getCategoryUrlSuffix($storeId);
+        $urlSuffix  = ($urlSuffix) ? '.' . $urlSuffix : '';
         $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('sitemap/catalog_category')->getCollection($storeId);
         foreach ($collection as $item) {
             $xml = sprintf(
                 '<url><loc>%s</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>%s</changefreq><priority>%.1f</priority></url>',
-                htmlspecialchars($baseUrl . $item->getUrl()),
+                htmlspecialchars($baseUrl . $item->getUrl() . $urlSuffix),
                 $date,
                 $changefreq,
                 $priority
@@ -169,11 +171,13 @@ class Mage_Sitemap_Model_Sitemap extends Mage_Core_Model_Abstract
          */
         $changefreq = (string)Mage::getStoreConfig('sitemap/product/changefreq', $storeId);
         $priority   = (string)Mage::getStoreConfig('sitemap/product/priority', $storeId);
+        $urlSuffix  = Mage::helper('catalog/product')->getProductUrlSuffix($storeId);
+        $urlSuffix  = ($urlSuffix) ? '.' . $urlSuffix : '';
         $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('sitemap/catalog_product')->getCollection($storeId);
         foreach ($collection as $item) {
             $xml = sprintf(
                 '<url><loc>%s</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>%s</changefreq><priority>%.1f</priority></url>',
-                htmlspecialchars($baseUrl . $item->getUrl()),
+                htmlspecialchars($baseUrl . $item->getUrl() . $urlSuffix),
                 $date,
                 $changefreq,
                 $priority

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