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Dec 15, 2009, 12:55 AM
colintho
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Category Home URL and Canonicalization
How do I change the 'category home' url that is used in the category 'crumb trail' on the category pages

<div class="crumb"><%Links::Utils::format_title($title_loop, separator => $crumb_separator, no_escape_separator => $no_escape_crumb_separator, include_home => 1, link_type => 2)%></div>

By default this shows the website homepage url as http://www.********.com/index.html

I want it to read http://www.******.com

This is in reference to SEO Caononicalization & http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

Thanks
Colin Thompson
Dec 15, 2009, 1:16 AM
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You probably need a global for it. Give this a go:

remove_index_html_from_breadcrumb
Code:
sub {
my $loop = $_[0];
my $i = 0;
my @loop;
foreach (@$loop) {
if ($i < 1) {
$i++;
$_->{URL} =~ s/index\.html$//;
push @loop, $_;
} else {
$i++;
push @loop, $_;
}
}
return { title_loop => \@loop }
}

<%remove_index_html_from_breadcrumb($title_loop)%>

...put the above line BEFORE this line:

Code:
<div class="crumb"><%Links::Utils::format_title($title_loop, separator => $crumb_separator, no_escape_separator => $no_escape_crumb_separator, include_home => 1, link_type => 2)%></div>

Untested, but should work :)

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Dec 15, 2009, 2:50 AM
colintho
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Dec 15, 2009, 2:50 AM
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Re: [Andy] Category Home URL and Canonicalization In reply to
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thanks - tried but got this error (just above the category crumb trail)

Unable to compile 'remove_index_html_from_breadcrumb': syntax error at (eval 356) line 12, near "++ push"

Also, is this going to remove 'index.html' from all the category links in the crumbtrail?

I was hoping to only remove the 'index.html' from the homepage URL link - to make all thee links to the homepag within my site use www.*****.com

regards

Colin
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Dec 15, 2009, 2:53 AM
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Sorry, had a mistake in the code. Should be fixed now.

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Also, is this going to remove 'index.html' from all the category links in the crumbtrail?

I was hoping to only remove the 'index.html' from the homepage URL link - to make all thee links to the homepag within my site use www.*****.com

Yup, it will *only* do it for the home one :)

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Dec 15, 2009, 3:17 AM
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Dec 15, 2009, 3:17 AM
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great job, many thanks

I will now go through my various category templates to add the html code to call the global for all my categories

Thanks again + have a good xmas

regards

Colin
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Dec 15, 2009, 3:28 AM
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Np, you too :)

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Dec 15, 2009, 9:51 AM
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Hm, does it make sense to change this only for home.html?
All my categories are called with http://www.mydomain.com/categeory/index.html
Did you find a way to change it to just http://www.mydomain.com/categeory/
???

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Dec 15, 2009, 10:22 AM
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You wanna remove the index.html from all the URLs?

Give this a go:

strip_indexhtml
Code:
sub {
my $tmp = $_[0];
$tmp =~ s/index\.html//sig;
return $tmp;
}

Then call in subcategory.html (for example), with:

Code:
<%strip_indexhtml($URL)%%>

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Dec 15, 2009, 10:29 AM
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Re: [Andy] Category Home URL and Canonicalization In reply to
Andy wrote:
You wanna remove the index.html from all the URLs?

Give this a go:

strip_indexhtml
Code:
sub {
my $tmp = $_[0];
$tmp =~ s/index\.html//sig;
return $tmp;
}


Then call in subcategory.html (for example), with:

Code:
<%strip_indexhtml($URL)%%>


Cheers

Thanks for your idea, Andy. What do you think could it be changed by .htaccess as well?
I would prefer a change of the .htaccess file :-)

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Dec 15, 2009, 10:31 AM
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You mean do a 301 redirect with anything that has a index.html at the end? Shouldn't be too hard:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html http://www.domain.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

Untested, but should do the trick.

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Dec 15, 2009, 10:39 AM
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You mean do a 301 redirect with anything that has a index.html at the end? Shouldn't be too hard:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html http://www.domain.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

Untested, but should do the trick.

Cheers

No, I don't think google likes redirects!
I mean changing some of these parts in my .htacess file

Code:
# category page rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index\.html$ /cgi-bin/unterricht/page.cgi?g=$1/index.html [L]

But the more I think about it. Links like this
http://www.mydomain.com/categeory/index.html
would be still produced by the code and would be spidered by google, even if I change the .htaccess file. Or am I wrong...

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Dec 15, 2009, 11:00 AM
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Mmm, using mod_rewrite may have issues if you remove the index.html stuff, as that may confuse the rewrite rules (at least I've had issues with that previously)

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Dec 15, 2009, 11:49 AM
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Andy wrote:
You wanna remove the index.html from all the URLs?

Give this a go:

strip_indexhtml
Code:
sub {
my $tmp = $_[0];
$tmp =~ s/index\.html//sig;
return $tmp;
}


Then call in subcategory.html (for example), with:

Code:
<%strip_indexhtml($URL)%%>


Cheers

The code above works fine. But I just changed it for a few seconds, cause links with urls like
http://www.mydomain.com/categeory/index.html
are still working, too.
I think google would now spider a lot of duplicate urls :-(


PS: The code above did not work on my home.html in this part. It should work, cause subcategory.html is called.
Any suggestions why it does not work???
Code:
<%set split = Links::Utils::column_split($category_loop.length, $home_category_cols)~%>
<div class="clear">
<%loop category_loop%>
<%~set splitmod = $row_num % $split%>
<%~if row_num == 1 or splitmod == 1 or split == 1%><dl><%endif%>
<%~include subcategory.html%>
<%~if row_num == $category_loop.length or splitmod == 0%></dl><%endif%>
<%~endloop%>
</div>

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Dec 15, 2009, 12:03 PM
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PS: The code above did not work on my home.html in this part. It should work, cause subcategory.html is called.
Any suggestions why it does not work???

Mmm, should work fine - if you've put the code in subcategory.html

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The code above works fine. But I just changed it for a few seconds, cause links with urls like
http://www.mydomain.com/categeory/index.html
are still working, too.
I think google would now spider a lot of duplicate urls :-(

Thats why you need that rewrite rule I gave - as that will tell google the pages are a 301 ( perminant) redirect:

Code:
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ http://www.domain.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

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Dec 15, 2009, 12:12 PM
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If you're using 3.3.0, there's the option to not append index.html on all the index pages.

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Dec 15, 2009, 12:22 PM
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brewt wrote:
If you're using 3.3.0, there's the option to not append index.html on all the index pages.

Hi Adrian,
great, but I'm still waiting for a german translation of 3.3.0 Whistle

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Our German partner hasn't sent us any translations, so we don't have a german release.

Adrian

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brewt wrote:
Our German partner hasn't sent us any translations, so we don't have a german release.

Yes I know, I'm waiting for half a year now for a german version...
I've contacted Jack already, and he told me, that 3.3.0 has only a few minor changes.

But the option to not append index.html on all the index pages is not a minor change to me. This is what I was waiting for...

So what can I do.
Do I have to live with a german 3.2.0 version for ever???

Matthias
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