Hi, this question has been discussed before at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=229800. I tried the method they mentioned, Unfortunately it doesn't work for me in Gossamer Links 3.0.1.

Many people think it's not necessary to change file path "domain.com/category/index.html " to "domain.com/category/". I'd think it's very important to show domain.com/category/ instead of domain.com/category/index.html, because:

1. Internal and external links to domain.com/category/ is desirable considering the fact some people need to shift between index.html, index.shtml, index.php, or even index.asp when doing an upgrade on their websites. Whatever they change, the link path domain.com/category/ remains unchanged. This path still keeps the PR Google assigned to it, inbound links are still useful to guide either visitors or search engines to visit or crawl the site. While with an index.html, index.shtml, or index.php, an change in file name makes it lose original PR, link value, and make visitor' bookmark useless.
2. domain.com/category/ looks cleaner, people are used to the ways DMOZ, Yahoo! directories show their directory paths. So why not Gossamer Links?

Could anyone please give me a solution? Thanks very much!

mmm... nobody can help me?

This could be a very good feature to have.

Also if possible, I would love to go one step forward and ask for www.domain.com/category/, www.domain.com/category/sub-category/ & www.domain.com/detailed-path/link-title/ type option too.

I do think the /link-title/ type option might create tons of category, but it would solve the problem of .html,shtml,php.. etc for good and no matter what extension admin wishes to use, it will never hurt in search engine.

Vishal
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This is something we'll be considering for a future release. There may be certain situations which might prevent us from adding this, so I can't guarantee that it will be added.

Adrian

Awasome :) will be eagerly waiting for the next relase.

Vishal

Vishal
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There is a discussion at WMW on changing index page extension, you may be interested.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/29533.htm

What about rewriting the url?

^/pages/index.html$ /pages/ [R,L]

That should have the same effect as serving up index.html on the domain root.

That would work for the first pages of categories,

something like:

^/pages/(.*)/index.html$ /pages/$1/ [R,L]

Just a thought.


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Any ideas if there are still plans to add this to a future release?

Ok, I am trying to do this with a global and so far have managed to get it done with the category links. I am using yahoo subcats.

remove_category_index

sub {
my $tags = GT::Template->tags;
my $url = $tags->{URL};
$url =~ s/index.html//;
return $url;
}


replace <%URL%> with <%remove_build_index%> in subcategory.html

and

remove_description_index

sub {
my $tags = GT::Template->tags;
my $description = $tags->{Description};
$description =~ s/index.html//g;
return $description;
}

replace <%Description%> with <%remove_description_index%>

Now I am having a bit of trouble with the breadcrumb, any ideas?

Couldn't figure out a global, but adding

$ret =~ s/index.html//g;

below

$ret .= qq|<a href="$title_loop->[$_]->{URL}">$title_loop->[$_]->{Name}</a>|;

in Utils.pm seem to do the trick.

Does anyone have this working? I need to remove index.html from categories and tried the above.. The breadcrumb works, however the category links change using globals returns an error of 'Variable is not scalar' for each link. Any other ways of doing this?

Got it sorted.. needed to replace all of <%escape_html URL%> rather than just the URL part of it..

cool, there is a mistake in the above,

replace <%URL%> with <%remove_build_index%> in subcategory.html

should obviously have been

replace <%URL%> with <%remove_category_index%> in subcategory.html

It would be very helpful if the ability to remove the index was added to future releases of Glinks without needing to change the code of pm files.

As a simple suggestion perhaps by adding a

show_index => 0, # 1 = yes 0 = no

option to paging, breadcrumb, URL and detailed.


If anyone is changing the code of pm files you may want to update the paging sub too depending on which style your using by adding

$ret =~ s/$CFG->{build_index}//g;

above both

return $ret;

in Utils.pm


Cheers,

Charlie

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Hi,

Did this acually worlk OK? I tried this hack in Utils.PM but still index.html for the categories is returned.


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That just removes the index.html in the breadcrumb

Add a global called remove_category_index

sub {
my $tags = GT::Template->tags;
my $url = $tags->{URL};
$url =~ s/index.html//g;
return $url;
}

And <dt><a href="<%remove_category_index%>"><%if RelationName%><%RelationName%> .... in subcategory.html

and if using Yahoo subcats which I am make a global called remove_description_index

sub {
my $tags = GT::Template->tags;
my $description = $tags->{Description};
$description =~ s/index.html//g;
return $description;
}

and in subcategory.html

<%if Description%><dd><%remove_description_index%></dd>

Many thanks -- and lets hope GT can implement this as an option!

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It took a while, but the next version of GLinks will include support for not appending the build_index (eg. index.html) to the URLs. I have also updated the YahooSubcats plugin to support this as well.

Adrian

Great work Adrian

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Depending on your paging option, you may want to make an additional change. If you have

Pages: [First] [Prev] 1 2 3 4 5 6 [Next] [Last]

you will want to make one more change to the Utils.pm file at line 308. Find

$ret .= qq|">$disp</a>|;
return $ret;

and add

$ret =~ s/index.html//g;

so it looks like this

$ret .= qq|">$disp</a>|;
$ret =~ s/index.html//g;
return $ret;

this seemed to solve the problem. Hope it helps.

you probably actually want:

Philip
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Thanks a lot, I like the idea, but how do you create a 301 direct for all the pages ending in index.html that have already been indexed by search engines?

Hi,

I think you would need something like:


Untested, but should work.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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