Mod_Rewrite Newbies

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 11:53 pm

This is for newbies like me Rolling Eyes

I'm impressed with the capability of re writing long URLs into short real HTML link in fooling the search engines.

I seem to have successfully implemented this code by yours like archives in real HTML links.

It's on my test site before I put it out on production site and I see that it does actually makes somewhat HTML link looking like:

testurl.com/article368.html&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

is that attractive for google? no?

I was using 6.0 version nuke with lots of tweaks and couldnt get the block-modules to work since I get the parse error with line 182 and I only see on that line is ?> which is at the very end line... I didnt know why so I replaced with my backed up block-module and it still seem to work fine.

Stories archives works really great as everything ends up in .html

Good job coders!

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

If you log out of your test site and browse it anonymously you should not see:

testurl.com/article368.html&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

You should see:

testurl.com/article368.html

The latter portion shows up when cookies are set to display a member's preferences.

Most of the article links I've seen google crawl have not included "&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0".

However, that is no excuse for not fixing it. But that's ok, because this is aptly called "beta phase".

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 12:16 am

ah, yes your right... logging out does this trick...

Now Im extremely impressed.

I dont use the forums but is that additional of new codes on your modules-block really important? I seem to do fine without it.

Major Joined: Jan 13, 2003 Posts: 892

The error you got with the block was most likely a whitespace after the ?> chatserv and others have posted this numerous times. Though its easy to associate with the hack its nothing to do with it at all. Just the editing or editor you used. Razz

I've had it happen a few times using editpad lite seems like might be a low memory bug or leak in the program? Course it could just be me Razz

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Anonymous wrote:

I dont use the forums but is that additional of new codes on your modules-block really important? I seem to do fine without it.

Certainly if there are aspects you don't use then you can remove them.

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 12:06 pm

Zhen-Xjell wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I dont use the forums but is that additional of new codes on your modules-block really important? I seem to do fine without it.

Certainly if there are aspects you don't use then you can remove them.

What are the aspects to consider?

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Well, if you don't use forums then you can safely remove the forum rewrite code.