Php Nuke / Mod_rewrite / 1&1 Hosting question

Shiz · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:56

Hi all, my site is currently running php nuke version 7.9 and it has run fine so far and hits to the site are all starting to grow which is good. However, the problem I have hit is that because of PHP nuke having lots of &s and %s in the URL for some pages google is refusing to spider much more than my homepage. I have tried suing sitemap for this and that has helped a bit but not alltogether. Now I have hard about this thing called googletap - www.googletap.com - which rewrites my php pages as html pages as far as I can tell, making it easier for google and other search engines to spider them. However, this requires mod_rewrite and according to my co-site owner our 1&1 business package doesnt have this.

So my question really is, is there any way to get round this problem and use googletap anyway (or a different way, i am not only looking at using googletap), or am I just going to have to ring up 1&1 and just ask them to implement googletap?

Thanks

Nix · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:58

I think this would be better in the coding section. I've got no exp with PHP nuke, sorry. I'm not sure if this is right, but can't you upload a document telling the bots whether to cache the page or not?

Berserker · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:58

You posted this in the wrong place. Fixed.

Shiz · 22 Jan 2006 at 18:10

Cheers for sticking this in the right place Berserker.

Umm we have a robots.txt file which can tell SE what To NOT cache, like our armin pages etc...but I dont think you can ahve one that tells them which ones TO cache..would be good if they did.

Beansprout · 22 Jan 2006 at 19:58

Are you sure you don't have mod_rewrite support? It's a fairly standard Apache feature

I think you're slightly confused about the Googletap thing, too - it works like this (as far as I understand):

Normally you have URLslike this:

Code:

?sid=[long string]&section=news&article=14

Whereas Googletap would make this something intelligible:

Code:

/home/news/article14

ie, SE friendly

Shiz · 22 Jan 2006 at 21:01

I have just done a couple of trial runs using mod_rewrite and they produced 404's like before...then all of a sudden they worked... very strange but if it aint broke..

Going to have a go at setting up googletap later, quite a mission with all the header changes and things. Thanks beansprout, thats what I thought it did, vey helpful and My site wont get many hits till its up and running so better get cracking.