arghnoname

In my cursory examination of the other questions, I haven't seen this raised.

Essentially, I'm trying to run pMachine, and they assert that the search engines don't index php sites very well, for which they recommend a work-around. This work-around involves renaming everything to be absent an extention, and it is my understanding that it will only work on apache servers that have the mod_mime module.

I know I'm on an apache server here, but does surpass have mod_mime modules installed on their servers? Is information like this available? Secondly, would I be able to force type in an .htaccess file? The instructions for what I'm trying to do are here . I've tried it, but all I've gotten thus far were server errors. Is it possible, and if so, what am I doing wrong? I'm fairly confident that it happens when I attempt the .htaccess step.

Thank you for any help you may give me.

patrickb

Yes, mod_mime is already installed. If you follow those instructions exactly, you should have no problems. If you can't get it working, please email all details including your domain name to supportsurpasshosting.com.

On a side note, that pMachine page is a bit outdated. Most of the major search engines have no problems indexing pages using links that generate dynamic content (IE: yourdomain.com/somepage.php?dest=whatever). I personally wouldn't worry about it too much since it is kind of a mute point. Smaller lesser well known search engines may have problems with this, but google (the 800 lb gorilla) has no problem with dynamic URLs, as long as you have the links for each one listed somewhere in your site.

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arghnoname

Hey thanks a lot Patrick. You know, considering the rising importance of dynamic content, I thought that page might be out of date, but I wasn't sure and was probably going to bother with the trouble just to be on the safe side. I wasn't entirely looking forward to it because it's kind of a hassle.

Now I'm glad I don't have to.
Thank you very much for the prompt and helpful assistance.
-Ben

grappafruit

I have a similar question. For one of the new sites I'm building I named my pages rather odd, IE: secure.crew.php, or secure.login.check.php . When I link to them, I just call secure.crew or secure.login.check , without the .php . Somehow on my localhost (WAMP server) this works perfectly. The url shown is ie localhost/secure.crew?id=blah - it masks the ss language I use.

The trouble: On the surpass-server it doesn't work at all... (ie: http://www.creativebackline.com/secure.login?id=50 ).
Where (and how) can I alter this?

grappafruit

Edit: Sorry for bothering, found it out myself, just put "Options MultiViews" in the .htaccess file - as simple as that...