PHPNuke - Mod rewrite and Search Engines

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:42 am

Greetings All,
I am doing real well with the SE's but I have a problem. I am getting a lot of URL's that are indexed in the SE's coming back as http://mysite.com/modules.php

instead of

http://mysite.com/modules.php?name=My_Module

They are cutting me off at the ?'s so to speak.

I know that I can use Mod-Rewrite to change the URls to
http://mysite.com/modules/My_Module.htm

My question is how do I do it so that Goole does not lose my current listings. I assume I use some kind of redirect but there are too many pages to do one liners in the htaccess so I assume I would need some sort of rule....

HELP! I am in over my head AGAIN!

Dawg

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:52 am

Once you implement a GT solution, Google will continue to scan your site only it will automatically use the .html links. It won't lose current listings; however, it will eventually replace them with the .html links.

Remember that your robots.txt file is critical to defining what you want scanned, versus what you don't.

Hope this helps.

Steph

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:35 am

I am fixing to got hunt....but is there a "Best" version out there for GT? I know it has been around for a while and there is bound to be bunch of different versions of it.

Dawg

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:47 pm

I'd search the forums for threads on that topic.

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:00 pm

The obvious answer is try TegoNuke(tm) ShortURLs 1.0. from http://montegoscripts.com/. Smile

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:09 pm

Jake,
He does EXCELLENT work. Anyone know of any reason this should not work with 7.3?

Dawg

registered · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:07 am

No, it should work fine with 7.3. And, by the way, ShortLinks is a slightly modified GT-NExtGEn implementation and is perfectly compatible with existing such rules. I just didn't want to see that concept die on the vine as its author is no longer maintaining it.

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:44 am

montego,
Thank You for the reply. I will do this after this weekend. I am off to play in the BIG pond!

Dave