Enabling Search Engine Friendly URLs

These instructions apply only to the Apache web server with .htaccess per-directory configuration override enabled. For other web servers that support a similar URL rewriting mechanism simply use the contents of htaccess.txt as a guide and skip to step 3 of the following instructions.

1. Open the file htaccess.txt into a text editor, and then save it as .htaccess after making changes to RewriteBase if you are not installing Price Tapestry into the root directory of your website.
2. Upload .htaccess into the top level directory of your Price Tapestry installation.
3. Set $config_useRewrite to TRUE in config.php.

Google Sitemap Registration

To register the automatically generated Google Sitemap document for your Price Tapestry installation, create an account or login to Google Sitemaps and follow the instructions to register the full URL to sitemap.php. This script generates a sitemap index that contains links to the full sitemap for each merchant on your site.