Re: [SLUG] Reason not to use NT #8463

[Matt Allen <Matt@nospam.LinuxWorx.com.au>]

Heya All.

In PHP the easiest way to get around this problem is to make your get
strings look like this

http://this.is.my.website/page.php/ID/2/var/bob

Then just parse out the QUERY_STRING.

But, i tried this in ASP and it just wont work. So yes, IIS sux :)

Matta

Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
> I consult one day/week at a company that runs NT and IIS as its web
> servers.  It's a web company (a dot-commie?) so of course the marketing
> people look at how we're ranked in the search engines and are keen to
> spam the engines and all that.  However we've come up with a limitation
> in IIS that will stop the site from being in the search engines at all!
> 
> Most (but not all) search engines don't follow links that look like
> common scripting languages -- .cgi, .pl, .asp, .php will stop them dead
> in their tracks.  As well, anything with a querystring (blah?record=1)
> will stop them.  The rationale is that search engines could easily get
> stuck in a loop or be indexing useless information like a postcode
> database.
> 
> So, to get around this what people do on Apache and AOLserver is to tell
> the server that anything beneath a particular URL, say /blah/, it should
> actually run a script and not look for something in the file space.  So
> if you put in /blah/dog it will run the script.  That way your site
> looks like a flat HTML site but is actually all dynamic.
> 
> IIS doesn't seem to be able to do this.  So the moral of the story is,
> if you want to do a dynamic site and be linked from search engines,
> don't use IIS!
> 
> (There is, apparently and we're checking this out, a dodgy way to do it
> by changing the custom 404 page not found script but sheesh!)
> 
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