301 redirects for old urls

krishmk · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

I installed seo mixed mod rewrite a couple of days back.
My site is a new one. Infact I submitted to search engines 10 days back. Yahoo, google and msn have indexed my home page along with 3 or 4 sub pages. The indexed page have the session ID.

As now I had taken off the session IDs for guest and blocked it from robots.txt, do I still need to install Zero duplicate mod?

If so, how to I download the zero duplicate mod, it doesn't allows to download, though i could see a download image.

By the way, I also have added sitemap (145 urls without session ids - and all html pages) which is been downloaded by google without any errors.

dcz · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: 301 redirects for old urls

And welcome Very Happy

Have you tried while logged in ?

krishmk · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Hi,
I was able to download the zero duplicate mod now.
I read in google help that I could create static copies of dynamic urls, as far as I block them using robots.txt, it wont consider them as duplicate contents.

Do I still need to use this zero duplicate mod?

dcz · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: 301 redirects for old urls

Well yes, because the zero duplicate is doing a lot more than a robots.txt can.

First, it's absolute, no matter how well bots will deal with your robots.txt, they just won't be able to index any duplicate.
For example, if someone posts a links to a forum, with typos in the url, the created duplicate will be taken care of : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/many-duplicate-vf45/ which would not be the case without it.

Additionally, it wil redirect links with SIDs for guests, will check the pagination parameter consistency, unlike here for now ( Laughing

still need to install the last version here) http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods-vf32-27/ would be redirected to http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-seo-mods-vf32-25/ eg the closest valid start parameter.

And, it's the only way to keep all previous backlinks and indexed url while implementing a new url standard. If you add the vanilla url indexed, the zero dupe will tell bots what is the new url to consider on a per case basis so that bots won't have any trouble to deal with the new urls.

Last but not least, it's kind of a great security enhancement, as the principle is to only allow some POST and GET vars, if someone tries to add POST and/or GET vars to try to inject some code, it's will be in most cases http 301 redirected very early in the script.

So all together this makes this mod a must IMHO.

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krishmk · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Thanks for the explanation. Will make a try!

krishmk · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

I successfully installed the zero duplicate mod. (mixed seo mod) for my forum
HostingsIndia[dot]com

Everything seems to work fine. I checked my indexed pages in google which have the session id, they are being redirected as expected.

But I am having a major problem when I try to log in to my account using Mozilla Firefox 2.0. As a guest I can view the (home page). When I log in its just a blank page. If I hit the back button, and click on the top menus (eg. member list, profile or user groups) I see that I am in "logged in" mode.

2) If I type mysite.com/index.php >>> its again a blank page. (in firefox)

Amazingly both seem to work fine in IE
Logging in (and)
mysite.com/index.php >>> points to >>> mysite.com/

how do I correct this?

dcz · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: 301 redirects for old urls

It's a problem with the index.php redirection : http://www.hostingsindia.com/index.php

As you can see, the redirect location is empty.

The headers are correct : http://www.hostingsindia.com/big-duplicate-f1.html, but again the redirect location does not mention the full url.

Looks like the $phpbb_seo->seo_path['phpbb_url'] is either empty or not present in index.php

So double check the code changes in index.php, and make sure about the code change you've made in common.php when installing the mod rewrite, the code position is very important here, if you have doubts, just past the code at the very end of common.php, just before "?>".

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krishmk · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

I checked the common.php and index.php files. Everthing appeared to be fine.
Finally I looked in phpbb_seo_class.php. Under the URL settings

changed 'index' => ' '

to

'index' => 'index.php'

Now it works fine.

mysite.com/ redirects to mysite.com/index.php (301 redirect - hope that ain't a problem)

It also resolved one more error. Previously in topic and forum pages, the "forum index" link was pointing out to the same page instead of the home page. (only in firefox). But now it works fine as well.

Finally I am able to login to my account thru firefox.

Thanks for your support.

dcz · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: 301 redirects for old urls

So yes, everything is working now, but you still have $phpbb_seo->seo_path['phpbb_url'] empty.

The index link :

krishmk · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Thanks for guiding me on that.
I did see that it points only to the file name "pagetitle.html" as pointed out by you.
Now I made the necessary changes as suggested by you and shows the full url:
-http://site.com/pagetitle.html (with 301 redirection)

Now it works fine (finally......)

BTW, last week sunday, my ftp account was compromised and some of the files were replaced. I had to replace all those things.

Thanks a lot.
Laughing

dcz · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: 301 redirects for old urls

You're welcome Wink

As well, I think you should take care of the www prefix duplicate, it simple and really useful Wink

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