What causes ezpublish to create sessions ?

Thursday 01 April 2004 1:09:04 pm

I have a site which doesnt require logons. I've noticed that the url will sometimes change to include an 'ezsessid=' parameter, which I assume to be a session id.

What causes ezpublsh to allocate a session id in this way ?

The site content changes infrequently, only one page has a reference to currentdate() and I sometimes see a session id even if i've not looked at that page

Thursday 01 April 2004 3:00:53 pm

Hi Nick

To get rid of the session variabl from the URL try setting session.use_trans_sid off in php.ini.

http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/site_not_being_indexed_by_google_solution

ez Publish generates sessions every time someone accesses a site.

Cheers
Bruce

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Monday 05 April 2004 9:47:28 am

I've now changed my php.ini settings and am no longer getting session ids in the URL - thanks once again for the help

However, google is still only indexing the home page and doesnt appear to be following any links - it last indexed my site after i made the change to php.ini

I have <meta name="robots" content="ALL"> on all the pages, which if i undertstand it correctly should cause google to index my site (i got this from http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html) but it doesnt appear to be working

Any ideas ?

Monday 05 April 2004 3:30:42 pm

Hi Nick

Post the URL of the site in question so we can have a look?

Cheers
Bruce

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Tuesday 06 April 2004 4:19:46 pm

Hi Nick

The following link will let you know what pages from the site are in the google index -
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.carrotland.co.uk+inurl:www.carrotland.co.uk

It may take a couple of days or weeks for google to "find" the links now you have gotten rid of the session info from the URL and then a couple more for them to actually appear in the search results.

The only thing I'd be wary of is that the links contain index.php followed by the page reference. We run our sites with the apache rewrite rule which eliminates this and I'm not sure how google handles these types of links. I would have though they would be OK.

Cheers
Bruce

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Wednesday 07 April 2004 5:14:16 am

Hi Nick

See http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/installation/virtual_host_setup

Cheers
Bruce

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Wednesday 07 April 2004 3:05:47 pm

I've made the change and the site appears to work exactly as before exceot that index.php isnt shown any more, so its just a case of waiting for another visit from the googlebot.

Thanks once again