link creation issue

hozyali · Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 7

needed to remove the site links

Thanks

hozyali · Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 7

its working fine now. but doesn't keep www in the url can we have www some how in the urls?

HB · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 829

The URL is constructed from the server_name row of the config table. Does yours include the www prefix?

hozyali · Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 7

thanks. I placed www prefix in that config. but it still shows the same url issue on front site. Do I have to recreate the htaccess or something?

SeO · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: Re: link creation issue

if you did it through phpmyadmin, you still need to clear phpBB's cache to see any change.

hozyali · Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 7

it worked now. thank you very much.

hozyali · Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 7

I am having an strange issue. When using sitemap generator tools, like offline softwares or online scripts, I am getting .php urls also including viewtopic.php with different parameters. those urls are being generated automatically and if I access that url on browser, my phpbb forum says invalid forum request or doesn't exist.

for example

dcz · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: Re: link creation issue

The invalid request may only come from the use of escaped & (&) directly in the browser address bar.

http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&view=print for example works.

Now, about online sitemap generators, they usually are able to follow the robots.txt exclusions, so make sure you implement the suggested robots.txt and activate the robots.txt handling on the generator and you should not see these urls any more.

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