Duplicate urls for products

Hi!
I have a problem with multiple product URLs in our shop at www.stattgarde.de/duty-free-shop .

The product-module associated to the menu item is set to show all products in all sub-categories to show every product on the front page. Additionally there is a category listing module in the sidebar to mimic a "filter by category" behavior.
When I see a product in the root page it has a link like

/duty-free-shop/product/6-regenschirm-groß

/duty-free-shop/product/6-regenschirm-groß/category_pathway-15

/duty-free-shop/product/6-regenschirm-groß/category_pathway-15/related_product-7

Thanks for the help, I created a rewrite rule for that:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^(/duty-free-shop/produkt/.*)/(category_pathway|related_product)-[0-9]+$
RewriteRule .*              %1            [R=301,L]

I'm having the same issue with my site and agree with Simon, it would be great to see this option in a future release.

Also, I'm going to try and set up the .htaccess rewrite code posted above. However, I'm new to editing an .htaccess file so would appreciate some help here...

OK so, our shop is in the main directory of our site and our SEF options are set as below:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^(/category/.*)/(category_pathway|related_product)-[0-9]+$
RewriteRule .*              %1            [R=301,L]

oh yeah, sorry, my mistake.

I link to our shop via several category listings from the main menu. So would I use the alias of each of these menu items and have a new rewrite code for each? So for example, a menu which links to a category with the alias "furniture" would be:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^(/furniture/.*)/(category_pathway|related_product)-[0-9]+$ 
RewriteRule .*              %1            [R=301,L]

I can't seem to get this to work (probably because I'm an idiot...)

I'm only interested in removing the "related_product" part at the end.

So, for example:

/furniture/30-small-chair
LINKS TO RELATED PRODUCT:
/furniture/31-medium-chair/related_product-30

Should be:

/furniture/30-small-chair
LINKS TO RELATED PRODUCT:
/furniture/31-medium-chair

I've added the following to the end of the .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/furniture/.*)/(related_product)-[0-9]+$  
RewriteRule .*              %1            [R=301,L] 

yeah those lines are part of the original joomla htaccess file near the top. I haven't altered them.

Thanks for trying Nicolas, I'll keep plugging away and see if I can figure out which bit isn't playing ball!

As dicussed via PM: remove the brackets in the last part of the expression

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/furniture/.*)/related_product-[0-9]+$  
RewriteRule .*              %1            [R=301,L]

I think the parameters are necessary in order to generate a correct breadcrumb.

Thanks StattGarde, finally got it working!

I don't use a breadcrumb on our site so these changes are fine for me Mangastreamer.

Hi there, was this problem ever sorted in newer versions of hikashop?

My client has this problem on his site. He only has 150 - 200 products, but due to all the related product URL's he literally has 1,000s of URL's generated.

I only want to have 1 URL per product, regardless of whether it is directed via a related product.

I have just purchased a new subscription and upgrade to v 2.1 (the shop was running on 1.6), but I see I still have the issue.

Please can someone advise what I need to do to fix this? (I have tried putting the code mentioned below into my htaccess file and it did nothing?)

Thanks for your help,

Keith

As I said in your other topic, the last version of Hikashop should solve the problem.