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Hello Weavers!

As you might be aware, Ecwid recently released a new plugin for RapidWeaver: Ecwid Online Store.

We’re so excited that you can now integrate an Ecwid store into RapidWeaver, we went ahead and record a quick training course: RapidWeaver Online Store Course — it’s available for free on our YouTube channel.

In the videos, we signup for a free account, add some sample products and integrate a store both as a dedicated page and within a Stacks page.

I hope you enjoy the videos and if you’re looking to start selling online, Ecwid seems like a great option for RapidWeaver.

Cheers,
Ben

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Thanks. That’s a really useful overview of Ecwid/RW.

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Thanks, I have set up my site and I’m struggling to get google to index the pages because the URLs aren’t seo friendly.
eg https://www.weigh-till.co.uk/weighing-scales/#!/Avery-Berkel-XTs-Touchscreen-Printing-Scales/p/94789366/category=25585177

Any chance of some instruction on this Ben?

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There’s some info here: https://www.ecwid.com/blog/new-clean-seo-urls-in-ecwid.html

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Thanks Jason but already looked at that, it’s a bit confusing and is not particular to RW.
I have a lot of categories which all have their own RW page (index.html) in their own folder (category name).
I can add the script to each file but it’s the rewrite I’m a little lost with as one product can be in many categories (if that makes sense!)

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I’ll try and do a video on that next week :slight_smile:

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Also, maybe the ecwid developers @makfruit can take it as a feature request to add the same to their RW plugin? I don’t know if that’s possible or not.

Edit: looks like Ben has you covered as well :slight_smile:

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Brilliant Ben thanks!

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Hi David,

Ecwid can be set up so that the product URLs are clean and SEO-friendly. The link Jason posted is exactly what I am talking about. But this requires to adjust the .htaccess file on the server the site is running on.

Question to the other developers in this thread: is there a common way to manage .htaccess for RW sites? Or is it always dependant on the hosting the site is running on?

Thanks,

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RW does not do anything with .htaccess files, the user either has to edit it themselves or if their host has a CPanel that does it.

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Had a go at setting the clean URLs up. Placed the widget code in the appropriate file created the .htaccess as per the examples and everything works fine - if I select a product I get a clean URL but if I refresh I get a 404 error. Also if I copy the URL to a new page I still get a 404 error.
Have tried altering the .htaccess from relative URLs to full address URLs but I cannot get it to work after a refresh. Any pointers would be great.

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The 404 error means the .htaccess file contents should be adjusted.
Can you share a link to your site and contents of your .htaccess file ? Thanks

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Hi Matt,

Ok I was testing it on:
https://www.weigh-till.co.uk/weighing-scales/compact-scales/
I have put the html code in the index.html file here.
The .htaccess is in the same folder as the index.html
public_html
weighing-scales
compact-scales

.htaccess
IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^compact-scales/.*$ index.html
/IfModule

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Hi David,

Since you’re placing the .htaccess file in the final directory, this .htaccess code should work for you:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.html

Basically, in the RewriteRule, it says “Everything within this path should go to index.html”.

Please try it and let me know if it works.

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Hi Matt
It does work but I lose CSS see https://www.weigh-till.co.uk/weighing-scales/compact-scales/

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Managed to get it to work if I put .htaccess with RewriteEngine Off - in the ‘files’ subfolder.
Ok but my problem is I have a lot of categories all with their own folder and subfolder named ‘files’ (RW convention), I don’t really want to be creating lots of .htaccess files. Is there a way I can do it for each directory in the root .htaccess?

UPDATE

Had another ‘play’ around! If I place the following code in the route .htaccess

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(files)
RewriteRule ^weighing-scales/balances/.*$ weighing-scales/balances/index.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(files)
RewriteRule ^weighing-scales/compact-scales/.*$ weighing-scales/compact-scales/index.html

Everything works Ok for those pages apart from accounts and shipping.
Say the URL is: https://www.weigh-till.co.uk/weighing-scales/compact-scales/account/settings
and I refresh, I lose the CSS.

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As far as I can see, all css files are included using relative paths like “…/…/directory/file.css” . That makes the things tricky. Is it possible to make RapidWeaver use absolute paths instead?

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Hi Ben I started ecwid and want to it for German customers. That is a great support there by ecwig. After watching your 3 videos I saw that it should with stacks to. That is phantastic. But when I compare my setup from ecwid with yours it is different. And do I do not figure out how to use stacks now. I guess there have to be a trick.
Please have a look at artissimo.me/testseiten
There at the menu the point e-commerce modern you will find ecwid working in German but some text I can not change to german. Do you have sn idee how to change it?

Cheers Gunter.

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