> -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:49 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Apache config > > Dave Watts wrote: > <snip> > > Well, if you're using CF, you don't need to do that at the web server > level > > at all: > > > > http://www.doughughes.net/index.cfm/page-blogLink/entryId-37 > > > > You'll notice that this is an SES URL, on an IIS 6 server, that points > to a > > simple description of how to set up SES URLs with CF on any platform. > > I would argue that in fact that's not a search engine friendly url at > all. That url gives me no context for what I'm going to find on the page > if I follow the link. It will be followed by a search engine, sure, but > that does not inherently make it "friendly". > http://www.doughughes.net/articles/coldfusion/search-engine-friendly-urls- > with-coldfusion/ > would be a search engine friendly url. It tells a user (and a search > engine) to expect an article about coldfusion and search engine friendly > urls. Admittedly, the word "with" will probably be discarded by the > search engine as too common of a word, but the rest of the url will be > indexed and counted towards the value of the page if it matches the > correct context. > > In order to really do search engine friendly urls you do need a > rewriter. Apache comes with one, IIS doesn't. We use ISAPIRewrite and it > works quite well. It sucks that the functionality isn't built into IIS, > but I do still like to run IIS when I've got a Windows box, so the price > of the rewriter add-on is worth it. > > My $0.02 > > Judah > >
Not to mention that running rewriting through CF is a lot slower then using Apache or even ISAPI Rewrite. From what I remember from ISAPI rewrite, it was pretty limited, but I guess you're stuck with it if you're going to use IIS. Russ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:267060 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
