Re: [PHP4BETA] xbithack

Flemming Funch wrote: > Btw, another simple and pretty useful way of making php pages appear like > regular html pages to search engines, etc, without having to make all html > be run through php, is to tell the web server to treat .htm as php, but not > html. So, you would name your php files as .htm and the non-php files as .html I'm about to put into production a site that uses mod_rewrite compiled into apache to make specific php generated pages look static to search engines. http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html Eg you can have apache internally convert http://site/catalogue/categoryN.html to http://site/category.php?id=N (where N is some regular expression, in this case probably a number) I like this approach as it enables you to have multiple different 'static' pages based upon a variable passed through the html file name. Using this you can create specific static 'views' into your content that you think search engines should index, while still allowing more dynamic access via the original php files. Thus you can have the content indexed, without spamming the search engine. Paul PS. I think I noticed an extra http header being returned with PHP generated pages the other day, it may also be worth looking into killing that too.