MX and URL trick for search engines
We use the trick of replacing the ampersands and question marks in a URL with slashes in order to have our website indexed by search engines. Instead of having the URL appear as: MySite.cfm?VarName=Value it appears as MyPage.cfm/VarName/Value This works extremely well in CF5 on IIS5 (patched to the hilt). The functionality happened, as I recall, out of the box. We saw the method recommended in fusebox and adopted it. We are now configuring CFMX on a development server, and all of a sudden it is broken. We never ran CF5 on this server as a control, so it could be IIS that is misconfigured or has a patch that stops this behavior, although we just built out another CF5 server on a fully patched IIS install and had no problems. There is a third party ISAPI filter that will do this in IIS, but I'm wondering what has happened to break this. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt __ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: MX and URL trick for search engines
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 08:08 , MW wrote: MyPage.cfm/VarName/Value We are now configuring CFMX on a development server, and all of a sudden it is broken. In CFMX, CGI.PATH_INFO should contain /VarName/Value - I believe this is slightly different behavior to CF5? If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: MX and URL trick for search engines
I use this code as a custom tag. It requires cgi.path_info and cgi.script_name It transforms cgi.path_info into url variables you can urls like index.cfm/fuseaction/showrecord/id/23 with the custom you will get two url variables url.fuseaction=showrecord url.id=23 cfset lRawUrlParam=Replace(cgi.path_info,script_name,) cfset aRawUrlParam=ListToArray(lRawUrlParam,/) cfloop from=1 to=#ArrayLen(aRawUrlParam)# index=i step=2 cfif i mod 2 eq 1 and i+1 lte ArrayLen(aRawUrlParam) cfset url.#aRawUrlParam[i]#=Evaluate(aRawUrlParam[i+1])/cfif /cfloop - Original Message - From: MW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: MX and URL trick for search engines We use the trick of replacing the ampersands and question marks in a URL with slashes in order to have our website indexed by search engines. Instead of having the URL appear as: MySite.cfm?VarName=Value it appears as MyPage.cfm/VarName/Value This works extremely well in CF5 on IIS5 (patched to the hilt). The functionality happened, as I recall, out of the box. We saw the method recommended in fusebox and adopted it. We are now configuring CFMX on a development server, and all of a sudden it is broken. We never ran CF5 on this server as a control, so it could be IIS that is misconfigured or has a patch that stops this behavior, although we just built out another CF5 server on a fully patched IIS install and had no problems. There is a third party ISAPI filter that will do this in IIS, but I'm wondering what has happened to break this. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt __ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: MX and URL trick for search engines
See cfdev.com's products -Original Message- From: MW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: MX and URL trick for search engines We use the trick of replacing the ampersands and question marks in a URL with slashes in order to have our website indexed by search engines. Instead of having the URL appear as: MySite.cfm?VarName=Value it appears as MyPage.cfm/VarName/Value This works extremely well in CF5 on IIS5 (patched to the hilt). The functionality happened, as I recall, out of the box. We saw the method recommended in fusebox and adopted it. We are now configuring CFMX on a development server, and all of a sudden it is broken. We never ran CF5 on this server as a control, so it could be IIS that is misconfigured or has a patch that stops this behavior, although we just built out another CF5 server on a fully patched IIS install and had no problems. There is a third party ISAPI filter that will do this in IIS, but I'm wondering what has happened to break this. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: MX and URL trick for search engines
IIS gives a 404 error, and fails to hand off the page to CFMX for processing. It isn't a CFMX error for an unrecognized variable. Therefore, I don't think there is any code we can put in our CFM pages to solve this. A lot of people use this trick, especially on apache with 'mod_rewrite'. The commercial ISAPI filter is IIS Rewrite from http://www.qwerksoft.com/. Still researching... Matt -Original Message- From: Martin Orth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: MX and URL trick for search engines I use this code as a custom tag. It requires cgi.path_info and cgi.script_name It transforms cgi.path_info into url variables you can urls like index.cfm/fuseaction/showrecord/id/23 with the custom you will get two url variables url.fuseaction=showrecord url.id=23 cfset lRawUrlParam=Replace(cgi.path_info,script_name,) cfset aRawUrlParam=ListToArray(lRawUrlParam,/) cfloop from=1 to=#ArrayLen(aRawUrlParam)# index=i step=2 cfif i mod 2 eq 1 and i+1 lte ArrayLen(aRawUrlParam) cfset url.#aRawUrlParam[i]#=Evaluate(aRawUrlParam[i+1])/cfif /cfloop - Original Message - From: MW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: MX and URL trick for search engines We use the trick of replacing the ampersands and question marks in a URL with slashes in order to have our website indexed by search engines. Instead of having the URL appear as: MySite.cfm?VarName=Value it appears as MyPage.cfm/VarName/Value This works extremely well in CF5 on IIS5 (patched to the hilt). The functionality happened, as I recall, out of the box. We saw the method recommended in fusebox and adopted it. We are now configuring CFMX on a development server, and all of a sudden it is broken. We never ran CF5 on this server as a control, so it could be IIS that is misconfigured or has a patch that stops this behavior, although we just built out another CF5 server on a fully patched IIS install and had no problems. There is a third party ISAPI filter that will do this in IIS, but I'm wondering what has happened to break this. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt __ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
