MageHost_RewriteFix

We are sorry but we cannot offer customer support for this extension, and it is provided "as-is" for free. We use it at a number of big shops and it works well.

Due to bugs in Magento, once an rewrite URL ends with -[number] you get more and more rewrite URLs to the same target. The number gets higher and higher. Indexing gets slower and slower.

This extension is a workaround for this problem. Requires Magento 1.7.0.2 or greater.

How to install using Modman (--copy)

1. Make sure you run Magento 1.7 or newer
2. Install Modman
3. cd to your Magento root dir
4. test -d .modman || modman init
5. modman clone --copy --force https://github.com/magehost/magehost_rewritefix
6. If you keep your Magento code in Git: Add .modman to your .gitignore
7. Run php shell/mh_rewrite_cleanup.php -- cleanup once
8. Reindex the catalog_url index

Verify if needed

You can verify if your installation has this problem by using this query (presuming no DB prefix). If the largest count is > the number of store views then this is a hint that something is wrong.

SELECT `id_path`, COUNT(*) as `total`
FROM `core_url_rewrite`
GROUP BY `id_path`
ORDER BY `total` DESC

For deeper investigation you can inspect the rows with the highest count using SELECT * FROM `core_url_rewrite` WHERE `id_path`='[id_path from previous query]' There should be 1 entry per id_path for every store view - and not more - unless you renamed the product URI yourself.