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Tim Dickinson	Tuesday 12 August 2003 2:36:00 pm Hi everyone, Having installed the fix (which works great by the way) to run eZ3 on the CGI installation of PHP rather than the Apache module, I noticed that the URL's (nVh mode) go http://www.domain.com/index.php?/something/xx I thought that search engines can't cope with ? (question marks), so would this cause them a problem? Cheers Tim http://www.AdBalance.com - Ad network news and reviews http://www.DevPublisher.com - Website publisher guides, tools and news http://www.AudioMelody.com - Make better music
Alex Jones	Tuesday 12 August 2003 2:48:22 pm Tim, most search engines don't have a problem with question marks in the URLs, though some, including Google will only parse so many variables passed through the URL. You might want to check out the documentation on using "Nice URLs": http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/tips_tricks/creating_nice_urls In addition to helping with search engines, it provides a much nicer URL for your users. :) Alex Alex [ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ] <i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>

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Tim Dickinson

Tuesday 12 August 2003 2:36:00 pm

Hi everyone,

Having installed the fix (which works great by the way) to run eZ3 on the CGI installation of PHP rather than the Apache module, I noticed that the URL's (nVh mode) go http://www.domain.com/index.php?/something/xx

I thought that search engines can't cope with ? (question marks), so would this cause them a problem?

Cheers

Tim

http://www.AdBalance.com - Ad network news and reviews
http://www.DevPublisher.com - Website publisher guides, tools and news
http://www.AudioMelody.com - Make better music

Alex Jones

Tuesday 12 August 2003 2:48:22 pm

Tim, most search engines don't have a problem with question marks in the URLs, though some, including Google will only parse so many variables passed through the URL.

You might want to check out the documentation on using "Nice URLs":

http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/tips_tricks/creating_nice_urls

In addition to helping with search engines, it provides a much nicer URL for your users. :)

Alex

Alex
[ bald_technologist on the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net): #eZpublish ]

<i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>