Hi, I have a manufacturers.php file set up some time ago which is no longer working. I have recently updated to v7.7.4, not sure if this is the reason or not.

When I go to manufacturers.php I see all the top level product categories. The breadcrumb is "Home >> All Products". Previously, I would see a list of the manufacturer logos which I have set up.
https://finneyswoodfinishes.co.uk/manufacturers.php

Not all the manufacturers have products at the moment. Going directly to a manufacturer which has products set up does work, Eg https://finneyswoodfinishes.co.uk/products.php?man=Sikkens

In includes.php I have this: $seomanufacturerpattern="/brands/%s";

In .htacess I have this
RewriteRule ^manufacturer/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^brands/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]

After a bit of experimenting, I find that I can fix the problem by going to the link like this:
https://finneyswoodfinishes.co.uk/categories.php?man=all

But I have definitely not changed .htacess so thought I'd check before changing it.

Any suggestions, please?

Thank you
Ellen

Hi Ellen
Could you try adding this rule to your .htaccess file...

RewriteRule ^brands/?$ /categories.php?man=all [QSA,nc,L,B]

Vince

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Hi Vince,
Thank you for your reply. I have added that line to .htaccess but still got the same result (even after clearing browser cache). My .htaccess now looks like this, which seems a bit of a mix between 'Manufacturer' and 'Brands', although I hadn't changed it and was working previously.

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [R=301]
RewriteRule ^wood-finishing/([^/.]*)/?$ /categories.php?cat=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^products/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?cat=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^manufacturer/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^brands/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^brands/?$ /categories.php?man=all [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ proddetail.php?prod=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]

Thanks
Ellen

Hi Vince,

Any further suggestions on this please? Still not working. It's odd this was working previously, so I can only assume the v7.7.4 update could be the reason. The issue is still as described in my first post.

Is anyone else seeing this issue?

Thanks
Ellen

Hi Ellen
Sorry I missed that but I think you just need to reverse the order of these two...

RewriteRule ^brands/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^brands/?$ /categories.php?man=all [QSA,nc,L,B]

...so they are like this...

RewriteRule ^brands/?$ /categories.php?man=all [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^brands/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]

Vince

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Success! Thank you very much for your help Vince