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I noticed that the canonical url cuts off anything in the url that is also after the osid text. In some pages where there is another parameter after that, you will loose the parameter.

e.g faq pages

so all i have done in this version is copy the text after the osid and then after removing the osid, i paste that text back.

Original url:
....com/faq.php?osCsid=qvmvgi5j52cv730qd83vif41v2&q_id=1
Original Canonical url:
.....com/faq.php

New Canonical URL:
....com/faq.php?q_id=1

I asked the original creator of this contribution, Mathieu from webshoptimizer.com to see if I could use this contribution to redirect search engines to the right URL without the affiliate references.

All credits go to webshoptimizer.com

Here is the Solution
okay i figured out a rough way to fix the problem.

it looks like the author was looking to remove trailing slashes in the url. however my server doesn't put this trailing slash so it was making my .com or .net into .co and .ne


$domain = substr((($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER : HTTP_SERVER), 0, -1); // gets the base URL minus the trailing slash

Remove the [, -1] from the code

so it looks like this


$domain = substr((($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER : HTTP_SERVER), 0); // gets the base URL minus the trailing slash



works fine for me now.

This contribution will add the new canonical url link tag to your osCommerce webshop. The canonical link tag was recently introduced by Google, Yahoo! and Live and tells the search engines which URL it should have for the current page. This will prevent that content available on irregular urls will not be tagged as duplicate content.

This contribution will improve indexation of your website and prevent duplicate content.

For more information about the canonical url link tag visit: http://www.webshoptimizer.com/canonical-links-for-oscommerce-beta/