Hello,

I'm trying to do something weird with GLinks but I really need this.
So here what is my situation. I have city review directory, a while ago I enhanced it to handle more than one city by using 'd' parameter (if user choses city1 d is set d=city1, if choses city2 d=city2...). So far so good, till this moment everything was fine until i have spotted some loose in search engines rank and this is because some links are viewable from different urls and marked as duplicate content.

If I have wrote 3 reviews in businesses in 3 different cities when user want to see all my reviews and goes on review search all urls of links looks like:
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1234.html;d=city1
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1235.html;d=city1
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1236.html;d=city1

And the wished one is:

www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1234.html;d=city1
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1235.html;d=city2
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1236.html;d=city3

And this comes a problem because all links are in different cities, I have looked in the code but cannot figure which of two functions - clean_output and transform url does the actual transformation of urls from static to dynamic.

Which one of those two I must use and how to rewrite 'd' parameter to be set for each link city?

p.s. Sorry for my bad English.

rgrdz
Boris

Hi,

Can you not use something other than d=xx ?

Remember, d=1 in page.cgi makes the scripts run dynamically (and thus change all the URL's to dynamic ones).

Wouldn't something like this work?

www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1234.html;d=1;c=city1
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1235.html;d=1;c=city2
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1236.html;d=1;c=city3

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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In first it was like this, but because the script runs always in dynamic was easier to use 'd', so it will never be undef. And even if I use let's say c= for city paramter it will be dynamically preserved so the problem will persist :(

rgrdz
Boris

Hi,

Have you maybe tried editing dynamic_preserve in Setup > Build Options ?

Our one looks like this:


..but you could do:


.. and that should work for what you need, right?

Hope that helps

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Nope :(
it was setup like this with proper dynamic preserved which leads again to my situation :(
c is dynamically preserved and i do not have control over it how to apear in rendered page :\

And even if link 1235 is in city 2 in page url to this link is presented:
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed/1235.html;d=city1

rgrdz
Boris

Hm, just cleared in my mind how this works all is happens in trnasform_url so i have to hook on it ans somehow to rewrite c or d or b or whatever to value of <%City%>, but this is the tricky part as far i can see transform_url has no access to template vars it uses, just page_id, url, query string and separator as values :\

rgrdz
Boris

Hi,

Sorry, afraid I'm stumped now :(

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Yeah me too

rgrdz
Boris

Ooops

I've got this sorted

Thanks anyway

rgrdz
Boris