Making dynamic URLs look static
I run http://www.forumclick.com , a site completely programmed in PHP and it is dynamic. I want to make the URLs look static, the point being that search engines will better index it. This means getting rid of the ?'s and the &'s.
So, http://www.forumclick.com/showdoc.php?id=24
would look like
http://www.forumclick.com/showdoc/24
or
http://www.forumclick.com/showdoc.php/24
I'm hearing of all sorts of methods, from using the Apache Forcetype command (something my host won't let me into because I have to get into httpd.conf) to using a 404 trap.
The http://www.forumclick.com/showdoc.php/24 link would be easy: just code some simple URL parsing into the template and explode the string with "/" as the delimiter.
But, do you guys have any bright ideas on the other ways, knowing what i have in mind?
EDIT: Actually, now that i think about it, that "easy" method wouldn't work. So, I'm back to square one. An6y ideas? :END EDIT
[Edited by drisley on Feb. 13, 2001 at 02:27 PM]
David Risley
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Mark Hensler posted this at 23:18 — 13th February 2001.
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what went wrong? the apache thing or the explosions
?
japhy posted this at 07:16 — 18th February 2001.
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Joined: Dec 1999
If you have a program that is accessible via the URL http://www.foo.com/this, and you enter the URL http://www.foo.com/this/alpha/beta, the web server puts the string "/alpha/beta" into the PATH_INFO environment variable.
This may be a part of the solution you're looking for.
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