Randall,
Thanks, that does help quite a bit. I will do my research on the
mod-rewrite and save it for future implementation. For the time being I
have completed the 'beta' redesign of joughslife at www.joughslife.com
if you would like to see my 404 redirect in action. :) By adding a 200
header you are now able to validate the pages as separate entities.
Although we do not know for sure, this does give me hope for other
cache-type bots (ie. Googlebot). Let's just give it some time and see..
Thanks again to everyone!
Jough
Randall Potter wrote:
Joseph Bernhardt wrote:
I researched the mod-rewrite on the apache site and it looks
overwhelmingly difficult for someone like me :).
Yeah, mod_rewrite on Apache is VooDoo. You could look for a host
that uses lighttpd, the rewrite module makes more sense from my
perspective.
I outsource my hosting and do not have direct access to my server.
Will the mod-rewrite be possible in this case?
It will depend on your hosting company but you should be able to
put rewrite directives in .htaccess
Also, is knowledge of Perl an extreme must? I know very, very little
Perl.
You only really need to know how to format PCRE regexes.
Lindsay Evans suggested I use header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); in my PHP
script for the header. Do you think this would be a temporary
solution until I learn more about mod_rewrite?
I would say that it's a must. If your returning a content
document then you need to be returning an HTTP code that reflects
that. If the document isn't there then you need to reflect that too.
Hope this helps,
--R
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