I'm looking around and paying more attention to things -- like how much the Internet has changed in the past year.

One thing, is that google is not following .cgi pages, and is not ranking on their tool bar page-rank any pages with extensions it does not understand.

My directories used a rewrite rule to allow Links SQL to come up as the index page. This was giving a 'null' value on googles page rankings.

I changed that to use a

DirectoryIndex /cgi-bin/path/to/page.cgi?d=1

instead.

On a refresh, my home pages were now ranking as high as 6/10 (which is pretty damn good <G>). Hopefully on the next round of indexing I'll see even better performance.

If you wanted to use index.html with that, you could

DirectoryIndex index.html /cgi-bin/path/to/page.cgi?d=1

this would load index.html if it existed, and the dynamic site if it didn't.

This applies to *all* directories below the root.

The only "hole" I see in this, is that if your script is broken, it could potentially list the contents of the directory.

There has to be a way to make sure that indexes are off, but I have not figured how to make it work with this (I don't have my manuals here). I'd rather give a forbidden or error page, than list my directories.

Any apache guru's know for sure how to make that happen with certainty??

[edited 7/28 to fix a typo]


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