Posted by CAH on 04/10/07 18:13

On Apr 10, 2:16 pm, Erwin Moller
<since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spamyourself.com> wrote:
> CAH wrote:
> >> With mod_rewrite.
>
> >> With that you can setup Apache to do this:
> >> 1) incoming URL:www.site.com/en/page1.php
> >> towww.site.com/page1.php?lang=en
>
> >> You can set up your own rules (using regular expression).
>
> >> In that way you do not have to really create all these pages, but they
> >> become virtual.
> >> You only have to make page1.php pick up the $_GET["lang"] and make
> >> decisions for your query based on that.
>
> > Excellent advice, can Google register that one uses mod_rewrite, or is
> > it none the wiser? Can search engines have something agains this
> > solution?
>
> > Best regards
> > Cah
>
> Hi,
>
> Searchengine don't know about any url-rewriting taking place.
> From a searchengine's point of view:
> 1) Ask some URL (www.example.com)
> 2) read all the hyperlinks
> 3) follow a hyperlink, eg:www.example.com/en/page1.php
> 4) Server responds with the HTML.
> etc
>
> The fact that the server in step 3 using URL rewriting (and actually useswww.example.com/page1.php?lang=en) is completely unknown to the searchbot.
> It is completely unknown to ANY client.
> It is just something between you and your friend Apache. ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi Erwin

It is indeed excellent, I am trying to figure this mod_rewrite out,
and I have gotten it to work with simple request. But I guess it most
be possible with just three lines in the htacces file. I would like
anything in the /en/ directory to just be moved to the above level and
have the everything after the /en/ moved up a level.

RewriteRule /subdic/en/() /subdic.php/$1?lang=en
RewriteRule /subdic/de/() /subdic.php/$1?lang=de
RewriteRule /subdic/dk/() /subdic.php/$1?lang=dk

I am trying to figure it out, can I make it work with sessions id -
PHPSESSID and all the rest?

Best regards
Cah

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