Regarding the $_GET['url'] question, check the webroot/.htaccess file, especially the line:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L] This is used by cakephp to handle friendly urls Saludos, Pablo Viojo CTO, Groupon Latinoamerica pablo.vi...@groupon.com http://www.groupon.com.ar http://www.groupon.cl http://www.groupon.com.co http://www.groupon.com.mx http://www.groupon.com.pe http://www.groupon.com.uy http://www.groupon.com On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Pablo Viojo <pvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > at line 2 of index.php > > if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']!=strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])){ > header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); > header("Location: " . strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])); > } > > (from memory, maybe something is wrong) > > Saludos, > > Pablo Viojo > CTO, Groupon Latinoamerica > pablo.vi...@groupon.com > > http://www.groupon.com.ar http://www.groupon.cl http://www.groupon.com.co > http://www.groupon.com.mx http://www.groupon.com.pe > http://www.groupon.com.uy > > http://www.groupon.com > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt > <google-2...@ryandesign.com>wrote: > >> On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:44, AD7six wrote: >> > On Apr 17, 4:06 am, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Apr 15, 2011, at 08:57, AD7six wrote: >> >>> $_GET['url'] = strtolower($_GET['url']); anywhere (e.g., line 1 of >> >>> your index.php) will do the deed - and if you put a canonical meta tag >> >>> in your page, you avoid any duplicate content problems too. >> >> >> >> $_GET['url']? That's new to me. Is that something CakePHP does? Is >> there documentation on it? >> >> >> >> Even if it does what I think it does, then your suggestion would only >> address the first part (making URLs work case-insensitively) and would not >> address the second part (ensuring there is a single canonical URL for each >> resource and redirecting non-canonical ones to the canonical one). >> > >> > I too have difficulty reading to the end of a sent >> >> I'm sure you didn't mean it, but that response came across as rude. >> >> I had not heard of putting a canonical URL in the meta tag, so I searched, >> and found this information: >> >> >> http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html >> >> It appears you just put a link rel="canonical" tag in your header with an >> href attribute pointing at the canonical URL. Google uses this information >> to know which pages are to be considered the same, and what their official >> URL is. >> >> I would continue to assert that this does not take care of *redirecting* >> the user from a non-canonical URL to a canonical one, which was the behavior >> I was advocating. Perhaps redirecting is not necessary as far as Google is >> concerned, but it seems like a meta tag would not assist the *user* in >> knowing what the canonical URL is, unless the browser supports >> rel="canonical" tags and displays them somewhere (are there any browsers >> that do this?) >> >> If I visit http://apple.com/ I am not shown the Apple homepage with a >> rel="canonical" meta tag stating that the official URL is actually >> http://www.apple.com/; instead, I am redirected to http://www.apple.com/. >> This way, the official URL is in the browser's address bar, so the user >> sees it. Same thing if I visit http://www.apple.com/airport/ -- I'm >> redirected to http://www.apple.com/wifi/ , because that is the canonical >> URL for that information. This is the behavior I'm talking about and for >> which I was trying to suggest CakePHP solutions. >> >> >> Can you provide any guidance on $_GET['url']? As I said, I hadn't heard of >> that before either, and I'm having trouble finding information about it in >> Google or directly in the CakePHP book. Are you referring to >> $this->params['url']? >> >> http://book.cakephp.org/view/971/url >> >> If that's what you're talking about, then that book page doesn't give any >> information about why one might want to use this, what one can do with it >> (e.g. you're suggesting that lowercasing it will have some effect on >> CakePHP's later processing), etc. >> >> >> -- >> Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials >> http://tv.cakephp.org >> Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help >> others with their CakePHP related questions. >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group >> at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php >> > > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
