Granted, while it is a cleaner URL it is in no way friendly, it's an ugly hack.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Jan 20 21:49:23 2007 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-wi th-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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:267061 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
