Geoff

well i dont fully understand what it is you want done. "Virtual Directory" means something completely different to me than what you are describing. And ive tried googling it but i cant find what you are looking for, only what i know it as

so either you are using a term not regularily used, or you are not using the right one? could you explain how it is you used this supposed feature of php in the past? for example some code, or a configuration option?

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TheRealSol

It is quite simple really, I have a file, for example index.php.

Then I form my URLs as follows index.php/articles/102/

/articles/102/ is virtual because it doesn't really exist. index.php is run and then I can use the following: $url_array = explode("/",$PATH_INFO);

With www.test.com/index.php/articles/102/ $PATH_INFO would be index.php/articles/102/. I "explode" it into an array.

Now I can use $url_array['number'] for parts of the url. With a little script I made I can treat "articles" as the catagory and "102" as the ID. That's the equivilant of index.php?cat=articles&id=102.

The difference is Google will index index.php/articles/102/ as a seperate file to index.php. It will not treat index.php?cat=articles&id=102 as a seperate file to index.php. And to be fair, it's a bot and should not be expected to.

H

As far as I've heard, Google has been treating variables within URLs as seperate pages for a while now. It's certainly been that way in the past, but it's really not much of an issue these days.

As for why it's disabled by default, I don't know, but you can e-mail presales and find out if it can be enabled.

TheRealSol

Mmm, I've definately had issues with variables and Google so I would be much more comfortable being able to use virtual directory.

Sorry, I'm unsure which is presale's e-mail from the support page.

Rai

Submit support tickets here:
https://desk.surpasshosting.com/

You'll get an email confirmation right away and then you will get the answers. Make sure you provide as many details as possible.

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deastwood

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Ive heard the same and a guy who programs some scripts for me said he had run tests and saw no difference.