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Feb 8, 2005, 8:35 PM

Jesus

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Feb 8, 2005, 8:35 PM

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Main page and directory structure

Hi all,

I'm doing a mayor redesign of my site and I want to build my directory using this directory structure...

Site root -> index.html
Site root -> directory/category1/index.html
Site root -> directory/category2/index.html
Site root -> directory/category3/index.html
etc...

Also i'm configuring mod_perl to be used on my server to improve server loads, so I'm thinkiing to configure mod_perl to be used on siteroot/directory and my linkssql admin area.

Does enyone knows how can I setup links to build the main page on my root server and all the category pages inside the "directory" subdirectory?

Thanks in advance,

Jesus

PS
I was reading about to use sym links but i dont know if that could help me with search engine rankings, any help will be really appreciate it.

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Jesus: Feb 8, 2005, 8:37 PM

Feb 8, 2005, 10:15 PM

Jesus

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Feb 8, 2005, 10:15 PM

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Hi all,

I think this could be the answer:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=132116#132116

But as that thread its from 2001, I just want to know if this stills works and if this doesnt hurt se rankings.

Thanks,

Jesus

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Jesus: Feb 8, 2005, 10:16 PM

Feb 9, 2005, 12:23 AM

Andy

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Feb 9, 2005, 12:23 AM

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Hi,

You could try mod_rewrite in the root of your site.

1) Upload a .htaccess file into your /public_html folder (or whatever your public WWW folder is)/

2) Add the following content;

Code:
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^/$ /directory/index.html [L] 
RewriteRule ^/index.html$ /directory/index.html [L]

This *should* then link http://www.yoursite.com/ to http://www.yoursite.com/directory/index.html.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Andy: Feb 10, 2005, 12:29 AM

Feb 9, 2005, 11:13 AM

Jesus

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Feb 9, 2005, 11:13 AM

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Thanks Andy, let me try the mod_rewrite then :)

Jesus

Feb 9, 2005, 2:36 PM

Jesus

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Feb 9, 2005, 2:36 PM

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Andy, even better i'm trying to make the link to the dynamic site insted of building all the pages under the directory

But I still have a question, should be

writeEngine on

or

RewriteEngine on

also, do I nee to close at the end of the .htaccess the RewriteEngine off?

Thanks again for your time and patience,

Jesus

Feb 10, 2005, 12:30 AM

Andy

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Feb 10, 2005, 12:30 AM

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Hi,

Sorry about that... looks like the [code] tag went in the wrong place :/

Try this;

Code:
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^/$ /directory/index.html [L] 
RewriteRule ^/index.html$ /directory/index.html [L]

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk