Initially generating .htaccess entries instead of zero dupe

HB · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 800

For whatever reason, search engines feel compelled to lounge about my site, re-reading the same topics despite the site map's timestamp assurances that the thread has not changed. Oh well, I guess that's better than being ignored, right?

But with the zero dupe applied, I wonder if it would be more efficient for a board with a few thousand threads to instead add redirection entries to the .htaccess rather than going through viewtopic. This might lighten the burden on the server for the initial weeks after installing the Advanced rewrite Mod. Thoughts?

dcz

Well, the thing is redirecting few hundreds of url is really not a problem with the zero dupe.

Actually, it should never be a problem, because if your forum has thousands of urls, it mean the server is able to handle it, and thus redirect all of them, even though this will mean a bit more works, mostly the first week.
The way the zero dupe is implemented makes the redirecting occur very early in the script, being redirected is far from loading twice the same page.

The thing that could optimise a bit more would be to use external files, not sharing phpBB sessions to perform the redirections, but this would not allow for such precise checking and redirecting for any case as the zero duplicate is doing.

Here we manage to redirect whatever url hit the targeted script, like the one from older mod rewrite and such.

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