Changing Default Meta-Keywords and Meta-Descriptions
Before taking an OXID shop live online, it is necessary to ensure that the correct meta-keywords and meta-description pertaining to your shops and products appear in the <head> section of the HTML pages of your shop. Otherwise the Google & Co. will index only the default values pertaining to the OXID demo-data.
In order to remove the demo-keywords and add new ones, follow Customer Info > CMS-Pages > “META description Start page” and “META keywords start page”.
For influencing SEO keywords at the category and product level, please read this post: Meta Descriptions and Keywords for OXID SEO.
Meta Descriptions and Keywords for SEO
OXID is an e-Commerce system that has been built with plenty of search-engine-friendly features in mind. Meta-tag descriptions are a common method to influence the way search-engines catalog individual pages in web-sites. There are 3 ways a shop-owner/admin can influence meta-tags of their product pages.
Meta-tags for Category Pages
It is possible to specify meta-tags to category-listing pages under the SEO tab of individual category-editing pages.
Meta-tags for Article Descriptions
Each article can individually be supplied with meta-tags.
Meta-tags for CMS Pages
CMS pages can be supplied with meta-tags as seen below:
Site-wide Meta-tags
For enabling site-wide Meta-tags, please see Changing Default Meta-Keywords and Meta-Descriptions.
404 Not found oxseo.php
Short of bashing my head against the office wall upon being repeatedly confronted with a 404 Not Found error, I realized that I was using the wrong path for RewriteBase in .htaccess file. The exact error was:
The requested URL /home/oxid/pubweb/4_2_0/oxseo.php was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny4 with Suhosin-Patch Server at 192.168.253.129 Port 80
If anyone faces this on your OXID installations, this could be your fix, too.
We were using:
RewriteBase /home/oxid/pubweb/4_2_0/
Instead we should have been using:
RewriteBase /oxid/
.. where the target URL is http://192.168.253.129/oxid/ (being used to put together a Debian 5.0 Lenny Virtual Machine for OXID 4.2)





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