I've heard of a Apache server setting or update that makes for example: .com/shoes.html returns page /index.php?site=shoes or .com/shoes.html returns page /shoes.php Just like you have virtual folders you can have wildcard serach and replaced virtual file names. I believe this would solve your problem below and knowing this would make my PHP driven site appear to be a collection of html pages. Does anyone know how to do this or what it is called so I can research it? -Steve --- David Blomstrom <GeoBear@geobop.com> wrote: > At 02:19 PM 6/20/2003 +0200, Thorsten Körner wrote: > > >"This will run, and I think almost without problems. But IMHO it makes no > >sense. And I don't know, if all the searchengines out there will be able or > >willing to read *.php files (google works fine)." > > Are you saying that some search engines might not register pages with php > extensions? That would be a MAJOR problem. > > >"You should know that renaming all that files is not all, you have to do. you > >have also to change every single link in your pages, that points to your > >pages. I don't know how large your project is, but it can be much work, and > >if you do not add lines of PHP-Code to that pages, you can save much time by > >not doing so." > > Hmmmmm... it would be nice if I could use a search and replace function, > but that would be tricky. If I replaced every instance of .htm"> with > .php">, then that would also change links to other websites. For example... > > <a href="htttp://www.50states.com/history.htm"> would become <a > href="http://www.50states.com/history.php";> > > I wonder if there's an advanced search and replace technique that would > target only internal links on my website. On the other hand, I am doing an > extensive overhaul that will require recoding on every single page, so > maybe I could just manually change the links as well. > > Thanks for the tips. The comment about the search engines is especially > interesting (or alarming). I'll have to give this some more thought if .php > links might affect my site's visibility in search engines. Do you know if > the same applies to .asp and ColdFusion? > > >"BTW. It is not a good idea to start a new thread by replying to an old one." > > I wasn't aware that I did. > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
