Re: Spidering home page - and nothing else

Paul B <lamewolf2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 16 May 2006 11:20:16 GMT, John Bokma <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul B <lamewolf2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 16 May 2006 10:39:55 GMT, John Bokma <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


[ .. ]

Nope. Please read:
<http://johnbokma.com/windows/apache-virtual-hosts-xp.html>

[ .. ]

1: I use a hosting company

So do I. Note that I am not saying to host your site on your computer
at home (read the article). What I am saying, if your local copy has
issues when you use / instead of index.html it's because you're using
a file system, and not a webserver. Despite an URL looking like a file
path, those are two different things. For example, your filesystem is
not going to map / to the index.html and hence people "fix" this by
using index.html.

My local copy does not have issues. Works fine for me.

Then you either use a webserver, or have to use weird paths and refer to
index.html to make it work. I wouldn't call that "fine". It it worked
fine, I wouldn't have several of my projects running under Apache.

I use
dreamweaver for sites as well as by hand, so I could alter it myself,
but why should I ...........*no one* here has proved that by having
both .com and .com/index.html is bad - either for SERPS or otherwise.

Then you haven't read what I wrote. For the outside world .com/ and
..com/index.html are two different objects, and hence they are (AFAIK)
*both* cached. This means that if someone goes to http://example.com/,
next goes to http://example.com/foo.html and then clicks on
http://example.com/index.html the browser will fetch (again AFAIK, but I
can check it tomorrow) the index.html because the browser doesn't know
that index.html is *indentical* to / since the webserver does this
mapping, not your browser. Nor is it a "rule". Like I said, you can have
both a / and an index.html without them looking identical.

Probably not going to convince you, but it's bad bandwidth wise (and
user experience, since he/she has to wait again for the same page).


2: you don't use mod_rewrite for html

I do use it because [a] I now and then make a mistake with naming my
HTML pages (for example I called frogs toads recently :-) ) and [b]
now and then I get people (or software) making links with mistakes in
them. I rather test at home first. Note that I don't say that you
*have to* use mod_write, I only stated: you can test things like
mod_rewrite. Since the article describes how to install and configure
a web server, you can bypass all limitations a file system has when
testing a website.

Yes. Apache ......... I am not on an Apache server.

For serving HTML and images that doesn't matter much. And for several
other things ditto.

You don't *have to* use a webserver, I mean, if you prefer it the hard
way, be my guest. But don't give arguments like "hosting company" and
"don't use mod_rewrite" for not using it. Both are irrelevant IMO :-D.

"prefer it the hard way" LOL
So you are suggesting that I :
1: Install an apache server
2: get my head round it all

If you read the aforementioned article you are able to do so. I did
quite my best to explain the most important things in very great detail.


just to alter /index to .us .......... sounds like I will be heating
up a swimming pool to boil an egg ........... and for what ?

I can give you plenty of reasons why it's a good thing to read that
article, but they are my reasons (but I think most are generally valid).

No proof that it affects anything.

If you want it, I can give it on Wednesday. I am quite sure that I am
right (the caching story given above), but when I am not 100% sure I
write IIRC/AFAIK. OTOH I am afraid you will say it's not important.

--
John

Net::Google and Perl: http://johnbokma.com/perl/net-google.html
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