Redirecting for seo reasons

[yellowled]

I have a client using Bulletproof with an individualized startpage http://unitedmaps.net.

From that startpage, there's a link to the actual blog entries which links to "index.php?frontpage". The client would like this to link to something like "/blog/".

Is there any way to do this, maybe some .htaccess wizardry? (I'm an absolute amateur with .htaccess.)

YL

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Using a subdirectory would involve some heavy trickery, because all relative paths would be screwed up then. This would lead to duplicate content when using rewriterules to fix this issue (redirect everything from /blog/ to /), which I believe would be even worse for SEO.

To show the blog page (and not the startpage), the s9y index.php must be called with ANY query string. You could use index.php?b or whatever, but you need a query string.

The only other way is to create a file like "blog.php" in which you would manually change $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] and $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to look as if you called index.php?b and then include the s9y index.php file. This is also quite hackish.

I'd suggest to live with calling the frontpage with any kind of query parameter.

Regards,
Garvin

[yellowled]

To show the blog page (and not the startpage), the s9y index.php must be called with ANY query string. You could use index.php?b or whatever, but you need a query string.

So if I wanted to use, say, index.php?blog, how would I do that?

YL

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It should suffice to use <a href="index.php?blog"> in that case?!

Regards,
Garvin

[yellowled]

It should suffice to use <a href="index.php?blog"> in that case?!

Oh, I didn't even know that one already existed

You know, sometimes it's just too easy

Thanks.

YL

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It simply is required to use a querystring that's non empty. You could also use index.php?gimme_that_bitchin_page_already

Regards,
Garvin

[Don Chambers]

Hi!

It simply is required to use a querystring that's non empty. You could also use index.php?gimme_that_bitchin_page_already

Regards,
Garvin

I like that one MUCH better!!

[robi-bobi]

while this is OK and is working, it would still be nice if we could use some custom (rewritten) url

I will try that hackish thing and report

edit:
reporting: it works