#7033 – Self Canonical URLs in Virtuemart, category listing

Hi

I cannot say without looking at actual full and real URLs. You should be able to set up a generic canonical rule under the Aliases page (see this page of the documentation).

Can I ask why you would want to do that? I just checked and realized it seems Virtuemart is adding a canonical to the first page, that's really odd. Is this what you are seeing?

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
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HI

The second page

https://www.xxxx.gr/exoplismos-mpaniou/mpataries-mpaniou/results34-66.html

has canonical

https://www.xxxx.gr/exoplismos-mpaniou/mpataries-mpaniou.html

but what we need is to set as canonical itself url

Yes, that's what I said above. I just realized that Virtuemart added those canonicals. That's very strange, you could probably report it as a bug to be honest.

Anyway, you can add such a canonical as follow:

- go to Aliases
- Click New
- Select Insert canonical
- Alias: exoplismos-mpaniou/mpataries-mpaniou/results{*}.html
- Target URL: exoplismos-mpaniou/mpataries-mpaniou/results{*}.html
- Save

This will work just for the exoplismos-mpaniou/mpataries-mpaniou category. You can do multiple categories with just one command as well:

- go to Aliases
- Click New
- Select Insert canonical
- Alias: {*}/{*}/results{*}.html
- Target URL: {*}/{*}/results{*}.html
- Save

This will work for all links with 2 category levels in the URL.

Hope it helps,

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Hi

Glad you solved it. As you can see, once you understand the mechanism of the {*} string, it's pretty easy to do your own redirects and canonical.

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

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Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr